According to a covert change Meta has made to its help website, Instagram users won’t be able to communicate with their Facebook friends any longer.
9to5Google pointed out that the firm has stated that the service would be discontinued in the middle of December, but they did not provide a date for the shutdown.
Your current discussions on Instagram will become read-only, according to the support website, even though you won’t be able to initiate new conversations that span several platforms.
The social media behemoth introduced itself to messaging across many platforms in 2020. After three years, the firm decided to discontinue the service without any fuss, even though it had added features such as group chat.
Meta did not explain the cross-platform texting capability being removed from the list of available options. Within the Digital Markets Act (DMA) framework of the European Union, big messaging applications must be compatible with one another.
As a result of the blog seeing a “third-party chats” page, WABetaInfo claimed in September that WhatsApp, which Meta owns, had begun developing an interoperability feature.
At the end of the year, the social media giant said in August that it intends to make end-to-end encryption the default setting for Messenger users. Once the implementation of Messenger is finished, Rob Sherman, the deputy privacy officer for Meta, stated that Instagram direct messages would also receive end-to-end encrypted security. If the company’s decision to stop providing cross-platform communications was connected to this new development, they did not immediately comment.
A separate agreement was reached between Meta and the German antitrust commission in June, which directed Meta to revamp its account center to provide users with better control over actions across several sites.
