Instagram Trials Read Receipt Control in DMs

Red Section Separator By Rahul bhagat / nov 08, 2023

Meta-owned platform Instagram is testing a new feature allowing users to turn off read receipts for DMs, as announced by Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri.

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Adam Mosseri mentioned the feature responds to user feedback, giving control over when messages are marked as "seen."

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The testing phase doesn't specify the extent or when the feature will be available to all Instagram users.

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Notably, Instagram's introduction of this feature comes considerably later than WhatsApp, another Meta-owned app, which implemented this in 2014.

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Meta plans to bring default end-to-end encryption to app DMs after completing its rollout in Messenger, aiming to finish by the end of the year.

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