Messenger’s E2EE chats disguise your on-line conversations from third events, together with Fb itself. It additionally makes it tougher for legislation enforcement and hackers to entry the messages you’re sending and receiving. WhatsApp already has E2EE by default, and Instagram lets folks change on E2EE for particular person conversations.
Beforehand, Meta didn’t supply any method to customise encrypted chats. As quickly as you converted to (or entered) a secret dialog, all customization choices disappeared, and also you had been left chatting towards a plain white background. However now that Meta’s carrying over these customization options to encrypted chats, you may set themes, together with static colour and gradient ones, to make your conversations look much less boring.
You’ll even have entry to the complete vary of emoji reactions in E2EE chats and may customise the short response tray. Meta’s including the flexibility to set group profile photographs, in addition to view energetic standing icons and hyperlink previews that present you extra details about the place a hyperlink is main you. When you’re utilizing Messenger on Android, it’s also possible to use the “bubbles” function for E2EE chats, which supplies you fast entry to energetic conversations if you’re in different apps.
This comes as Meta appears to roll out E2EE by default. Whereas Meta began testing default E2EE final August, it’s now increasing that check to extra customers over the subsequent “few months.” It doesn’t say how many individuals may have entry to it, however the firm says it’ll notify folks in “particular person chat threads” when their chats are upgraded. At present, the choice to activate E2EE on Messenger is buried within the settings of every chat, and it’s not all that simple to search out when you don’t know the place to look.
