X Is Finally Rolling Out Chat, Its Dm Replacement With Encryption And Video Calling

X has yet revealed its long-promised chat platform, which replaces nan service's basal DM functionality pinch features much for illustration nan messaging capabilities connected different mainstream apps. The update adds sound and video calling, record sharing and nan expertise to edit and delete antecedently sent messages, arsenic good arsenic privacy-focused features for illustration end-to-end encryption and screenshot notifications.

The overhauled messaging features, called Chat, are rolling retired now connected iOS and nan web and will beryllium "coming soon" connected Android, according to nan company. X besides said it's moving connected a voice memo characteristic for users to speech audio messages.

X has been teasing its caller "chat" features for several months. The institution rolled retired an early type of encrypted messaging earlier this year, but "paused" nan characteristic successful May to reside unspecified issues. Now, it appears that X's encryption nary longer has immoderate of nan limitations it initially did. An article connected X's help center states that "unlike before, group messages and media tin now beryllium encrypted," though it notes that associated metadata (including accusation astir nan recipient) is not encrypted.

X besides states that "we do not connection protections against man-in-the-middle attacks," which could discuss an encrypted chat. "As a result, if someone—a malicious insider aliases X itself arsenic a consequence of a compulsory ineligible process—were to discuss an encrypted conversation, neither nan sender aliases receiver would know," nan institution explains. X says it's moving connected features that will thief users verify nan authenticity of encrypted conversations.