Tap on it and select your preferred timer option (from five seconds to one day).

In secret conversation mode, Messenger shows you a timer icon beside the chatbox.

If you reverse this action, you go back to the non-secret mode.

Toggle the Padlock icon (Android) or the Secret text (iOS) at the top-right corner (this puts your chat in secret conversation mode).

Select the person or group you wish to chat with.

This will enable you to compose a message. Tap the Pencil icon that you'll find in the top-right corner. If one party doesn't, they'll have to update the app before this feature can work on their end. Both parties must have the latest version of the app.

How to Activate Screenshot Notifications on Messengerīecause Messenger's end-to-end encryption isn't turned on by default, you have to enable Secret Conversations with each Messenger contact. So, Meta started cautiously testing the feature with users who already had an existing chat thread and were connected, rather than everybody in the world. Security was further enhanced when Messenger introduced Vanish Mode in November 2020, which allowed your messages to disappear after a while and notified you when someone took a screenshot of said messages.Īlthough E2EE has been available on Meta's services for a while, it has been rolling it out slowly due to concerns by law enforcement that E2EE would give an unfair advantage to criminals. Secret Conversations on Messenger changed that by restricting your chat to the device you initiated it on and also encrypted the conversation end to end. Third parties such as government agencies, cybercriminals, and even Meta's employees could easily access your chats because they weren't encrypted.

Previously, Facebook Messenger allowed you to start a conversation on one device and continue the conversation on another device. It began when Meta (then Facebook) introduced Secret Conversations to Messenger in 2016.

Meta's journey to encrypting our chats on Messenger has been a bit of a winding road.

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