{"id":477449,"date":"2023-01-24T09:52:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T07:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=477449"},"modified":"2023-01-24T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T07:56:06","slug":"facebook-adding-customisation-to-encrypted-messenger-chats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/477449-facebook-adding-customisation-to-encrypted-messenger-chats.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook adding customisation to encrypted Messenger chats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) is expanding the features available in its end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) chats in Messenger to include customisation preferences, the company announced in a blog post<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Messenger users will be able to set themes, send emojis and reactions, and incorporate group profile photos in their encrypted conversations.<\/p>\n

Previously, starting, opening, or switching over to an encrypted chat would remove all customisation and leave users chatting against a plain white background.<\/p>\n

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook<\/a><\/strong> to announce the update.<\/p>\n

“Launching more features for end-to-end encrypted chats for Messenger today \u2014 link previews, custom emojis, themes, etc.,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We’re ramping up testing default end-to-end encryption for more people in Messenger too.”<\/p>\n

Messenger users on Android can also use the “bubbles” feature for E2EE chats, giving them quick access to active conversations when they’re in other apps.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that, unlike WhatsApp, E2EE chats aren’t enabled by default in Messenger. The customisation update comes as Meta looks to roll out encryption as a default setting.<\/p>\n

The company started testing encrypted chats in Messenger<\/a><\/strong> in August 2022, and as per Zuckerberg’s announcement, the test will roll out to more users over the next few months.<\/p>\n

Meta hasn’t revealed how many people will have access to it, but the company says it’ll notify users via “individual chat threads” if they are included.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Microsoft testing Notepad tabs in Windows 11<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No longer will users be forced to chat against a white background in end-to-end encrypted chats in Messenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":477451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36075,161,1767,3560,73842],"class_list":["post-477449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-end-to-end-encryption","tag-facebook","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-messenger","tag-meta-platforms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477457,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477449\/revisions\/477457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}