How to activate secret conversations in Messenger and explain self-destructing messages

Secret conversations in Messenger are now available within the Facebook Messenger application, and it is the best option for sending a secret and encrypted message that no one can see, as Facebook announced the availability of an option within the application to open a secret conversation, and you can only activate encrypted messages manually. The end-to-end encrypted messaging feature was previously available on the WhatsApp application automatically and also on the Signal application, unlike the Facebook Messenger application, which made the feature available via a manually activated button in order to solve some problems with governments that do not like encrypting all users’ messages, so you must be careful. Turn on secret conversations in Messenger. If you have the Facebook Messenger application for Android or IOS, you will find a new feature added to the application entitled “Secret Conversations” and you must activate it to enable secret conversations from the Settings settings, but you cannot rely on this option alone.

Read also: 11 of the best Facebook Messenger tricks to get several features. Therefore, when you open a new conversation on Messenger by clicking on “new message” and then pressing the new button, which is secret, at the top right of the application to activate secret conversations in Messenger, but both recipient/sender parties must have the latest version of the application. Create a message to be destroyed in Messenger. While opening a new encrypted conversation from the Secret button, you can choose one or two people at most to receive the encrypted message. You can also set a time to destroy the message from two seconds to a day after reading it until it is permanently deleted from the Internet.

Although this option is available to protect the user's privacy, it is possible for some of us to forget to activate secret conversations when wanting to create an encrypted conversation, which is certainly not a good thing. Therefore, you must be careful and activate this option when wanting to communicate confidentially over the Internet. Watch a video: How to write an encrypted message that is destroyed after reading. The secret chats feature in Messenger was designed with the encryption of the existing Signal encryption system, which is available in the “Signal” application for encrypted messages. It is an encryption system that has a wonderful reputation in security circles and communities, but as we mentioned, it must be activated manually.

Facebook was unable to activate encrypted messages automatically for all of your conversations, and you left them manually due to some problems with governments such as Brazil, which refused to fully encrypt WhatsApp messages, which caused the closure of the company’s headquarters there and the arrest of the administrative staff there.