X Launches Chat, Its New Encrypted Dms

X has revealed Chat, an encrypted upgrade to nan platform’s nonstop messaging service. It besides includes support for video and sound calls, disappearing messages, and record sharing.

The institution announced Chat connected Friday, and it’s disposable now connected iOS and nan web, pinch an Android type coming “soon.” It replaces X’s existing messaging system, though your aged messages should beryllium carried across.

X says that Chat supports end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for some messages and files, though a support page notes that this doesn’t screen connection metadata — specified arsenic who received it, aliases erstwhile it was sent. There’s besides nary protection against man-in-the-middle attacks, nan institution admitting that if “a malicious insider aliases X itself” compromised an encrypted conversation, location would beryllium nary measurement for users to know, though ways to verify connection authenticity and instrumentality personality are coming.

Other privateness features see disappearing messages, which tin beryllium group to automatically delete aft a group play of time, and nan options to either person a notification erstwhile a chat is screenshotted aliases artifact screenshots entirely. Messages tin beryllium some edited and deleted, and sound and video calls are supported, pinch sound notes connected nan measurement successful nan future.

Say hullo to Chat – all-new unafraid messaging connected X.

• end-to-end encrypted chats and record sharing
• edit, delete, aliases make messages disappear
• artifact screenshots and get notified of attempts
• nary ads. nary tracking. full privacy. pic.twitter.com/7dmDEDkYvO

— Chat (@chat) November 14, 2025

X — past Twitter — first introduced encrypted DMs successful 2023, earlier pausing nan feature this May while it worked connected “improvements.” Those look to person arrived arsenic Chat.