Meta has quietly updated its support pages to now say the company isn't going to let users on Instagram send messages to their Facebook contacts.
The company said, according to 9to5Google, that the feature will shut down mid-December, though the firm did not provide a date.
The support page says that while you won't be able to begin new cross-platform conversations, your existing chats on Instagram will become read-only.

The social media company introduced cross-platform messaging in 2020. Now it's killing the feature, silent about its reasons, three years later, after adding group chat along the way.

Meta didn't explain why it is killing the cross-platform messaging. The European Union's DMA requires big messaging apps to be interoperable with one another.

Meta-owned WhatsApp has reportedly begun working on an interoperability feature, as indicated by a blog that spied a "third-party chats" screen.

In August, it said that it wants to allow end-to-end encryption by default for Messenger users by the end of the year. That's the same reason why Meta's deputy privacy officer Rob Sherman pointed out that Instagram DMs would also get end-to-end encryption protection once Messenger is fully rolled out. The company did not immediately explain if such move away from cross-platform messaging is related to the development.

Furthermore, Meta agreed in June under the supervision of Germany's antitrust authority to completely overhaul its account center so users could have much greater control over their activities across sites.