- Media with spoiler effects.
You can wrap photos and videos you send in a fuzzy cover
by selecting media in the attachment menu
and tapping (...) > Hide With Spoiler.
- Setting pictures for your contacts.
You can choose your own picture for
a contact – only you will see it on their profile.
- Suggested profile pictures.
When editing your contacts, you can suggest
a photo for their profile. It will take them just two clicks
to add the picture you suggested.
- Public profile pictures.
If you only allow certain users to see your profile photos,
you can set a public picture for everyone else.
- Ultimate profile picture privacy.
You can set 'Who can see my profile photos' to 'Nobody'
and add some users or groups as exceptions.
- Member list privacy.
Owners of large groups can hide the list of members.
- Send photos and video files hidden by a spoiler effect.
- Set a public photo for those who are restricted to see
your profile photo in the Privacy Settings.
- Bug fixes and other minor improvements.
- You can set a Global Auto-Delete Timer
for all new chats and groups you create.
- New messages will be deleted after 1 day, week, month,
or a custom duration you choose.
- The new menu in Settings > Privacy & Security > Auto-Delete Messages
also lets you set up Auto-Delete for any of your existing chats faster.
- Admins of groups with 100+ members can organize discussions
into separate topics.
- Topics now have a two-column layout
that keeps recent chats easily accessible as you browse topics.
- Previews of topic messages in the chat list work like a button,
click to jump to the last updated topic.
- Up to 5 topics can be pinned to the top of the list.
- Each topic now supports multiple pinned messages.
- The View as Messages mode now shows
which topic each message belongs to.
- Badge counters for topics you never opened
will have a lighter, less distracting color.
- A new General topic is now included by default,
containing service messages and the earlier message history from the
group.
- Admins can rename the General topic.
- Large groups can enable Aggressive Filtering in Manage Group
> Administrators to remove more spam with automated algorithms.
- Admins help improve filtering
by reporting any false positives in Recent Actions.
- Groups with more than 200 members
can now have their discussions organized into topics.
- Premium users can now convert both voice messages
and video messages into text.
- A new expandable reaction menu was added in private chats and groups.
- All users get access to dozens of new reactions,
including reactions previously reserved for Premium users.
- The reactions you use most frequently
will always be displayed at the top.
- Premium users can react to messages with thousands of custom emoji
and add up to 3 reactions to each message.
- Group admins can control whether
custom reactions are allowed in their groups.
- Premium users can add an animated emoji status next to their name
to display their current activity.
- To set a status, tap your Premium badge in the main menu or Settings.
- Popular suggestions for working, sleeping,
traveling and more will be shown at the top.
- To set a status for a specific duration like 1 hour or 2 days,
right click the emoji.
- A new format was supported for username links,
in addition to "t.me/username." You can now open Telegram accounts,
groups or channels using links like "username.t.me"
or "https://username.t.me."
- Improved support for long media captions.
- New reaction selector above the right click menu.
- Premium: Set any custom emoji reactions in private chats.
- Premium: Set any custom emoji as your profile status.
- Insert or copy custom emoji from pack preview.
- Fix editing media captions with animated emoji.
- Fix viewing animated emoji sets used in a message.
- Fix premium sticker tooltip auto-show in channel comments.
- Fix main window position and size restoring after relaunch.
- Other bug fixes and minor improvements.
- Include animated emoji in messages and captions.
- Premium users unlock over 500 new emoji,
including custom packs with unique characters.
- All users can view any emoji,
and try them out in the Saved Messages chat.
- Control who can send you voice
and video messages with Telegram Premium.
- Send a Premium subscription to any user from their profile.
- Choose 3, 6, or 12 months - at a discount.
- Allow sending animated emoji to Saved Messages
even without Telegram Premium.
- Premium: Suggest animated emoji by regular emoji
(can be disabled in Settings).
- Premium: Show all suggested premium stickers
in a special section of the stickers panel.
- Premium: Allow hiding premium stickers special section
of the stickers panel.
- Fix a memory leak in RTMP livestreams.
- Fix some bot webview bugs on macOS.
- Fix forwarding of voice messages.
- Animated emoji for messages.
- Premium: Privacy settings for voice messages.
- Premium: Gifting Telegram Premium to any user from their profile page.
- Premium: Send media and files each up to 4 GB in size.
- Premium: Download media and files at the fastest possible speed,
with no limits.
- Premium: Double most of the limits in the app.
- Premium: Get a new button next to any voice message
to generate a transcript of its audio.
- Premium: React with even more emoji,
including :clown: and 😍.
- Premium: Send unique stickers with additional effects,
updated monthly.
- Premium: Set a default chat folder
or enable tools to auto-archive and hide new chats.
- Premium: Subscribers have a badge next to their name,
showing they help support Telegram.
- Premium: Show off your profile video
that will be animated for everyone in chats and the chat list.
- Premium: Sponsored Messages that are sometimes shown
in public channels will no longer appear.
- Enable join requests for your public groups,
no invite links required.
- Users who open the group will see an Apply to Join Group button.
- Once approved by an admin,
users will be able to participate in the chat.
- Bots that are integrated into the attachment menu
can be programmed to work in groups and channels.
- Settings > Advanced > Experimental adds an option
to open chats in separate windows.
- Fix possible crash in video chat reconnection.
- Fix possible crash after account switch.
- Fix mute period selector values.
- Fix a crash in repeated context menu item selection.
- Fix context menu item selection of systems without a compositor.
- Use any short music file or voice message as a notification sound.
- Right click audio files in chats to add them to your list
of sounds - or use 'Upload Sound' in the Notifications menu.
- Click on Mute notifications > Select sound in a chat's (...) menu
to change its notification sound.
- Set custom tones for notifications
in Settings > Notifications > Play sound.
- Click on Mute notifications in a chat's (...) menu
to manage its notifications.
- Choose 'Mute for...' to turn off notifications for a preset period,
like 1 hour or 1 day.
- Quickly configure Auto-Delete settings from any chat info page.
- Click (...) to turn on Auto-Delete,
then select a specific duration.
- Replies are now preserved when forwarding messages,
making forwarded conversations easier to read.
- Bots can now open detailed pages directly in the chat.
- Use these streamlined interfaces to buy real-world goods
and services without leaving the app.
- Open a bot's profile to add it to your group or channel.
- Instantly configure a bot's rights and permissions when adding it.
- Bots can send a new type of button
that lets you add them to your group or channel.
- Allow sending the default reaction by a double click.
- Select a custom sound for message notifications.
- Add chats to folders from a chat context menu.
- Fix group and channel photo upload.
- Test hardware video decoding.
- Change volume for RTMP stream from the context menu.
- Set a profile photo from your camera.
- Improve RTMP stream full screen mode.
- Improve edit account section design.
- Fix switching personal account or channel in video chats.
- Fix pinning chats in folders with 100 chats.
- Fix YouTube timestamp links after 10 hours.
- Active and recently finished downloads pop up
in bar in the bottom left corner, like they do in browsers.
- View recently downloaded files in Settings > Advanced > Downloads.
- Get an alert before closing the app if you have unfinished downloads.
- Share a direct t.me link to your phone number
that instantly opens a chat with you.
- Use the full number in international format,
like t.me/+123456789
- Manage Live Streams in your channels using external software
like OBS Studio or XSplit Broadcaster.
- Choose "Stream With..." when staring a video chat or live stream,
then copy your Stream Key and paste it into your streaming software.
- Show viewers count in RTMP streams.
- Send GIFs search results without "via @bot".
- Display the file thumbnail in downloads bar.
- Always try to save original photo bytes to disk.
- Fix crash when deleting a user from your contacts list.
GitHub Action
John Preston