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No, and they don't have plans to enable it. One of the reasons is technical: It's pretty hard to use E2E and support multiple devices.

• snotrockets 5y ago
  It's as hard as doing E2E group chats, already solved elsewhere.
  • f311a 5y ago
    That's not true, look at Whatsapp. That's the most popular messenger with E2E.
    • snotrockets 5y ago
      Whatsapp problem isn't in the algorithm, but their identity resolution (hence their roundabout way of doing their web client: https://github.com/sigalor/whatsapp-web-reveng https://github.com/sigalor/whatsapp-web-reveng) iMessage approach is to treat every conversation as a group chat between all the recipient devices and all of yours. There's another risk here, that Apple doesn't let the end user verify the list of devices the chat is encrypted for. Which is to say, a perfect E2E experience isn't trivial to design, but you don't have to drop the ball completely.