How to activate End to End Encryption in Instagram

By | September 27, 2023
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Many privacy and security features are available in Instagram. While using any social media platform, most of the users are worried about their personal messages and data being secure. There are reports of data leaks every day, due to which users first of all pay attention to which platform is providing such good safety features so that their chats, photos and personal details do not fall into any wrong hands. Also Read – Information about upcoming films will be available on Paytm, set alerts like this to book tickets

Like other social media platforms owned by Meta, Facebook WhatsApp, Instagram also has an end-to-end encryption feature for chats. With its help, only you and the person in front can read or listen to your messages and calls. Here is the complete process to enable it. Read below to know… Also Read – Year End 2022: These are the biggest global outages of this year including WhatsApp and Twitter, see list of top 5

Instagram end-to-end encryption feature

For your information, let us share that end-to-end encrypted conversations are protected by a unique key, which is stored or saved on each device participating in the conversation. When a user sends a message, their device locks the message as soon as it is sent. Only a smartphone or tablet can unlock the message. The same goes for your audio and video conversations. Also Read – Government of India blocked 104 YouTube channels and many websites including 4 Facebook accounts, know the reason

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Follow these steps for new chat

  • To use the end-to-end encryption feature with Instagram chat, open the app on your device and go to the DM section.
  • Then click on the + icon. You will find it on the top right side.
  • After this, just below To, click on the Start end-to-end-encrypted chat option.
  • Now search for the account you want to message. Then start a conversation by clicking on the Hit button.
  • Your chat will be secure. Only you and the person receiving the message will be able to read it.

Use this way for chat in inbox

  • You can also enable this feature for chats already in your Instagram inbox. For this open that chat.
  • Click on the account name at the top of the chat window.
  • By doing this, many options will appear in front of you. Click on the Use end-to-end encryption option among them.
  • Now a new chat window will open, which will be encrypted.