

Adding security with one of the cleanest looking UI, along with an option to share large files from your smartphone, this is one feature packed messenger. Telegram is one of the most popular end-to-end encrypted messengers that’s out there. The app supports disappearing messages, encrypted group conversations, as well as secured video and voice calls. Signal is one of the coolest end-to-end encryption apps that you could choose. This will enable an encrypted chat with the same person. All you need to do is enter a regular chat with someone=> open the Options tab in the top-right corner=> select Go to secret conversation. Yes, our beloved Facebook messenger also supports end-to-end encryption. We’ve gone ahead and listed them out for you to pick! This way your texts remain secured and private.Īpart from WhatsApp, there are a bunch of other apps that you could use, to have secured and private chats. But with end-to-end encryption in play, if anyone other than you two tries to hack and read your texts, they’ll just get to see something like ‘10104516546546514654’. The recipient will see this as the way you intended it to. For example, you text someone, “Hey what’s for dinner”.

With end-to-end encryption, both the sides of the text messages get converted into a unique code, that can only be deciphered or decoded by the participants of the chat, using that very messenger, and not otherwise. Image Courtesy: Pixabay What is end to end encryption? So a few messenger apps, including the very popular WhatsApp have introduced end-to-end encryption. Internet messengers and even emails are susceptible to spying by the government, and compromising on privacy isn’t something that can be negotiated on. And while it is far more convenient and fun, with the use of images, emojis and so much more, it has also been a victim of being quite insecure. Viber is the second largest messaging app in the Philippines next to Facebook Messenger, according to digital marketing agency We Are Social’s 2017 report on the digital landscape. – Rappler.Internet messengers have easily gone ahead and replaced the regular texting that we were so much used to. The new feature rolled out on Sunday, March 13. On Android, users will be able to take a screenshot of the messages iOS users, on the other hand, will be able to do so, but the app will send a notification to the message sender. Regular chats can be switched to secret chats and vice versa. The setting can be changed for each message. In the chat window, a timer button appears on the lower right portion which allows users to choose how long the message stays, ranging from 1 second to a number of hours to a week. Tap the “New Secret Chat” option, and choose up to 199 contacts with whom to communicate. To activate the feature, tap the “+”sign on the “Chats” panel. It’s a feature that Snapchat pioneered, but has since been adopted on rival platforms WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram.

Viber users are now able to activate what the app calls “Secret Chats”, in which users can set the amount of time that a sent message remains visible before it disappears. MANILA, Philippines – Messaging app Viber added a new feature that’s sure to raise a few eyebrows from Snapchat loyalists: disappearing messages.
