Mark Zuckerberg promised to add them in 2016 but until now it was necessary to activate them manually.
There are functions that take a long time to wait, and end-to-end encrypted messages by default in Messenger, the instant messaging application Metais undoubtedly one of them. Mark Zuckerberg He promised it in 2016, when the company was still called Facebook but he half fulfilled it. Although it was possible to encrypt messages, the feature had to be enabled manually and not all features were supported.
Now, at last, it can be said that Zuckerberg has delivered. From today, messages and calls made in Messenger are encrypted by default. Since Messenger is also now Instagram’s messaging system, the same functionality comes to this platform.
From Meta they assure that it has not been an easy change. “We have spent years rebuilding the entire messaging system,” Zuckerberg himself explained. Encrypted messages have the same functions that unencrypted messages had until now, including the possibility of sending reactions to texts.
Encryption is also active in calls and since it is end-to-end, Meta has no possibility of accessing the content, even if its servers are used. “The additional layer of security provided by end-to-end encryption means that the content of your messages and calls with friends and family is protected from the moment they leave your device to the moment they arrive at the recipient’s device,” explains Loredana Crisanresponsible for Messenger.
Active conversations will gradually transition to the new encrypted system without users having to make any changes, although messages already sent do not have this encryption system, which is common in other messaging platforms, such as WhatsApp or iMessage.