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Instagram's Vanish Mode lets you send secret messages that disappear when you're done chatting.
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Vanish Mode on Instagram lets you have a temporary chat that is automatically erased when the chat ends.
To enable Vanish Mode, swipe up from the bottom of a chat window.
Either party can end Vanish Mode by tapping "Turn Off Vanish Mode."
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Not all messages are meant to live forever, or at least that's the idea behind Instagram's Vanish Mode, which lets you send temporary, self-destructing messages in a special chat mode.