Facebook Messenger Adds Screenshot Alerts, GIFs, Stickers, Reactions, More to Secret …

Facebook Messenger has been updated to offer improved functionality in its Secret Conversations feature, which offers users end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) communication. The Meta-owned service will now inform users of screenshots taken inside Secret Conversations, which now support content in regular conversations such as message reactions, GIFs, and stickers. Users will also be able to swipe to reply to messages in Secret Conversations and forward messages to other conversations. Users can also make end-to-end encrypted group chats and calls in Messenger, according to the company.The company announced on Thursday that Messenger’s Secret Conversations feature has been updated with the ability to alert the sender when a recipient takes a screenshot of a conversation. The feature was previously offered in Vanish mode and will roll out to all Secret Conversations where disappearing messages have been enabled, according to the company. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also shared a post with his wife Priscilla Chen, showing the screenshot detection feature, along with other features coming to the messaging service.The Meta-owned service appears to be updating its Secret Conversations feature with additional functionality ahead of the company’s plans to switch on end-to-end encryption by default for all users in the future. Messenger had planned to…
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