Facebook and Instagram will not get end-to-end encryption until 2022, here is how you can use it for Facebook and Instagram will not get end-to-end encryption until 2022, here is how you can use it for chats Facebook has announced that end-to-end encryption will not be available to users until 2022. However, the tech giant has features that enable users to enable end-to-end encryption for secret chats. advertisement (Picture: Reuters) Facebook and Instagram have features like secret conversation and vanish mode. These features, when enabled, use end-to-end encryption for temporary chats. While Facebook-owned WhatsApp users prepare themselves to sign up for the new terms of service that are slated to go into effect from the 15th of May, Facebook has made another announcement. The tech giant, in a blog, the post noted that it has been working on the end-to-end encryption of Facebook and Instagram will not come before 2022. “While we expect to make more progress on default end-to-end encryption for Messenger and Instagram Direct this year, it’s a long-term project and we won’t be fully end-to-end encrypted until sometime in 2022 at the earliest. Moreover, the safety features we’ve already introduced are designed to work with end-to-end encryption, and we plan to continue building strong safety features into our services," Facebook said in a blog post.