Facebook Messenger launches new end-to-end encryption features, adds Snapchat-style screenshot notification – Mac Pro Tricks

Meta announces that Facebook Messenger end-to-end encrypted chats and calls have even more features. Available for the last eight years, users had to choose between E2EE and having all the features available in a chat, but no longer.

According to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (via The edge), Facebook Messenger now adds new features to end-to-end encrypted chats.

New update to end-to-end encrypted Messenger chats so you get a notification if someone takes screenshots of a disappearing message. We also add GIFs, stickers and responses to encrypted chats.

By default, Facebook Messenger chats are not end-to-end encrypted, which means you need to turn this feature on. For example, you can sign up for the secure chat or change the lock icon when you start a new chat. Either way, Meta now adds more features to encrypted chats, such as GIFs, stickers, and responses.

It is also possible to press and hold to reply to or forward messages. The edge notes that “encrypted chats also now support verified badges, allowing people to identify authentic accounts.”

Last but not least, there is a new Snapchat-style screenshot message. If you’re in an end-to-end encrypted chat and you take a screenshot, Messenger will let the other user know in the chat that a screenshot has been taken.

Although Messenger is receiving some improvements regarding E2EE, Meta still plans to make all chats encrypted by 2023 when it combines Instagram and Messenger conversations.

In an opinion piece in Telephant last year, Meta’s global security chief, Antigone Davis, spoke about the company’s efforts to provide a more secure platform:

At Meta, which owns Facebook and WhatsApp, we know that people expect us to use the most secure technology available, which is why all the personal messages you send on WhatsApp are already end-to-end. end-encrypted and why we’re working to make it the standard across the rest of our apps.

Meta first promised end-to-end encrypted chat at the earliest in 2022, but now that has changed:

We take the time to get this right, and we do not plan to complete the global rollout of end-to-end encryption by default across all of our messaging services until sometime in 2023.