After WhatsApp and Telegram and Signal Facebook Messenger joins the club of putting user privacy and security first. Facebook Messenger offers a Secret Conversations feature to enable end-to-end encryption for your conversations so no one can intercept or read them. Here's how to use Secret Conversations in Facebook Messenger.
When using Secret Conversations in Messenger, messages between you and the recipient remain secure with end-to-end encryption. Even Facebook can't see these messages. Here's how to use Secret Conversations in Facebook Messenger.
Use Secret Conversations in Facebook Messenger
There are several reasons to choose a secret chat in Messenger, such as sharing confidential or private information. For such activities, using secret chats is appropriate.
Note: The screenshots below are taken from the Messenger app for Android. Follow the same steps on your iPhone and start a secret chat.
Step 1: Open an app Facebook Messenger on your phone.
Step 2: click on the button construction in the upper right corner.
Step 3: Activate the lock toggle switch at the top.
Step 4: You have the option to start a conversation with contacts from the list. Messenger will suggest contacts based on your history and preferences.
Click contact You want to have a conversation with her and start sending messages.
Before you go ahead and try the same trick on Facebook web or Messenger web, let's stop you right there. The Secret Conversation option is only available on the Messenger apps for iPhone, Android, and iPad.
Recent conversations in Facebook Messenger are separate from regular chats. When you create Secret conversation in Messenger The app will create another chat thread with the same person. Your regular conversation will remain the same.
You can separate secret chats from regular chats by checking the small lock button below your profile picture on the Messenger home screen.
Secret Chat Content Support
You can think of a secret conversation in Facebook Messenger as a stripped-down (but more secure) messaging experience.
Secret conversations in Messenger allow you to send the following format.
- text messages
- Pictures
- Messenger Stickers
- Videos
- audio recordings
- Voice and video calls
However, you can't start a secret chat in groups, nor can you send GIFs. Secret Chat also doesn't support payments.
A lot of limitations, if you ask us. If these features are important to you, you should avoid using Secret Conversations in Facebook Messenger.
The secret conversation is encrypted.
To confirm that your secret conversation is truly encrypted, you can compare the hardware key on your phone with the key on your friend's phone. Here's how.
Step 1: Open Facebook Messenger Go to any secret chat.
Step 2: click on the button the information in the upper right corner.
Step 3: Locate Your keys.
Compare the keys to your name on your friend's device using a screenshot. Let's say your device's keys are 345 on your phone. They should mirror the same on the bottom of the other person's phone.
Delete secret conversations in Messenger
Once you're done with secret messaging on Facebook Messenger, you should delete the chat. This way, you can prevent those chats from unauthorized access. Here's how to delete secret conversations on Facebook Messenger.
Step 1: turn on Facebook Messenger and open Secret conversation.
Step 2: click on the button the information At the top and open the menu Profile.
Step 3: Scroll down and select Delete chat.
Confirm your decision.
Use multiple devices with Secret Chat
You can always use multiple devices to start a Secret Chat. If you have another iPhone or Android device, you can use Secret Chat on both of them, too.
However, don't expect your previous secret conversations on your latest phone to appear here. You'll be starting over on a new phone, and Facebook won't sync secret conversations from your old phone to your new one.
When you start using a new phone, you and the participant will receive a notification letting you both know that you are using a new device.
Enjoy private conversations
unlike Snapchat There's no way to find out if someone is taking screenshots of secret conversations in Facebook Messenger. Keep this in mind before sharing secret media and other information in any conversation. We hope this article has taught you how to use secret conversations in Facebook Messenger.
