The company, as pointed out by 9to5Google, said the feature will shut down mid-December — without specifying a date.

The support page indicates that while you won’t be able to start new cross-platform conversations, your existing chats on Instagram will become read-only.

The social media giant first introduced cross-platform messaging in 2020. And three years later, after adding features like group chat along the way,  the company is shutting down the feature without much fanfare.

Meta didn’t provide a specific reason for discontinuing the cross-platform messaging feature. The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) requires large messaging apps to be interoperable with each other.

In September, WABetaInfo reported that Meta-owned WhatsApp has started working on an interoperability feature as the blog spotted a “third-party chats” screen.

In August, the social media giant said that it aims to turn on end-to-end encryption for Messenger users by default by the end of the year. At that time, Meta’s deputy privacy officer Rob Sherman said Instagram DMs would also get end-to-end encryption protection once the Messenger rollout is complete. The company didn’t immediately comment if the discontinuation of cross-platform messaging was related to this development.

Separately, Meta also agreed to overhaul its account center to allow users a greater degree of control over cross-site activities, upon the direction of the German antitrust body in June.