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Zoho’s Arattai Switches On End-to-End Encryption Tonight

Users must update to move chats into new encrypted sessions during a brief three-day transition.

Overview

  • Sridhar Vembu said on X that platform-wide end-to-end encryption will be enabled Tuesday night in Indian Standard Time.
  • Users are urged to install the latest Arattai from the Play Store or App Store to participate in the upgrade.
  • When both parties update, a fresh encrypted one-to-one chat is created while the previous non-encrypted thread is archived and redirects to the new session.
  • Legacy chats with contacts on older versions can continue for three days, after which the latest app becomes mandatory and encryption is enforced across the service.
  • Group conversations will gain end-to-end encryption in the coming weeks for certain group sizes, and encrypted chat backups are expected in about two weeks.