How to View Secret Conversations on Messenger Facebook? Is It Still Available?

Is the Secret Conversation feature still available on Messenger in 2026? Yes, yet not as the standalone feature itself, but as a standard and default End-to-End encryption (E2EE) for almost all your chats. E2EE blocks anyone except you and the receiver from accessing the information in chats, including Messenger’s server. A secret conversation could be regarded as a secret chat room with the “E2EE” feature enabled. 

Now, since almost all normal chats are end-to-end encrypted, this separate feature is no longer necessary and was removed in December 2023, while the E2EE was rolled out.

How to View Secret Messages in Messenger 

How can you see secret conversations on Messenger? Since you are the device’s owner, simply tap the conversation, and you can access all content in your chats. 

How do I know my chat is End-to-End encrypted or not? If you are to find the secret conversations you created previously, check these:

• A lock label: Encrypted chats will be labeled with a lock icon, just as it was labeled for a secret conversation. 
• It will be a separate thread

To check if the E2EE is enabled >> go to a certain chat thread > settings > Privacy & safety > Verify end-to-end encryption. You might also check the key. 

Some users might think that the E2EE conversations now are less secure and private than the previous secret conversations with a lock, because once others get your device, without an app lock, all your chat histories will be open to the “theft”. If you feel the same, you might as well utilize the app lock and take advantage of the disappearing messages, which will automatically vanish after reading.

Capture the Secret & Disappearing Messages Before They Disappear

Given that the messages will disappear automatically, here comes another problem: the chat content is hard to keep. Once read, there is no way to restore them. So, if you want to keep or take down the disappearing messages, you might as well capture them with screenshots. For those apps that block screenshots for secret chats, turn to screenshot apps and recording tools, like iTop Screen Recorder, that allow you to screen-mirror your device to the PC and record the content.

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