

And while you can use Vanish Mode from Instagram-to-Instagram and Messenger-to-Messenger chats, it's not yet possible with Instagram-to-Facebook or Facebook-to-Instagram chats just yet.

If you're chatting with a user who doesn't have the feature yet, Vanish Mode will not show up, which is at least a little reassuring. As of right now, as long as you and the people you're chatting with have updated apps, Vanish Mode is just a swipe away. Unfortunately, there's bad news: there's no account-wide kill switch for Vanish Mode on Messenger or Instagram. Learn More: How Vanish Mode Works on Messenger & Instagram.And typical of E2E chats, whenever you take a screenshot, the other user will get an alert saying you took one. That means if you or your fellow chatter enables the end-to-end encrypted option, everything you or they say during that time will disappear unless one of you takes a screenshot. In some cases, that may not be ideal since everything you or the recipient said will disappear.Īny text written or media shared in Vanish Mode stays in Vanish Mode. As cool as it sounds, it's easy to enable accidentally, and a friend could force you into using it. Facebook recently implemented " Vanish Mode" into Messenger and Instagram, which lets you have an end-to-end encrypted conversation in a chat that will disappear as soon as you leave the thread.
