- Switch to the Picture-in-Picture mode
to watch your video in a small window.
- Change video playback speed in the playback controls '...' menu.
- Rotate photos and videos in the media viewer
using the rotate button in the bottom right corner.
- Create three new kinds of polls.
- See who voted for what in polls with visible votes.
- Vote for several options in polls that allow multiple answers.
- Guess the correct answer in quiz-style polls.
- Explore various ways of combining the different poll options.
- Add polls from the '...' menu in any group or channel.
- Use bots like @QuizBot to create quizzes
with several questions and media attachments.
- Schedule messages to be sent when your recipient comes online
(only works if you know their online status).
- Videos in chats start playing automatically.
- Resume playback from where you left off
when watching long videos and listening to long audio tracks.
- Control automatic playback for
videos, GIFs and round video messages
in Settings > Advanced > Automatic media download.
- Enjoy system spell checker support on all modern systems.
- Videos in chats start playing automatically.
- Resume playback from where you left off
when watching long videos.
- Control videos, GIFs and round video messages automatic playback
in Settings > Advanced > Automatic media download.
- Spell checker on Linux using Enchant.
- Create new themes based on your color and wallpaper choices.
- Share your themes with other users via links.
- Update your theme for all its users when you change something.
- Create new themes based on your color and wallpaper choices.
- Share your themes with other users via links.
- Update your theme for all its users when you change something.
- Right click the 'Send' button and select 'Schedule Message'
to automatically send something at a specified time.
- Schedule reminders for yourself in the 'Saved Messages' chat.
- Get a notification when any of your scheduled messages are sent.
- Customize your app's appearance by choosing accent colors
for the 'Day', 'Night' and 'Tinted' themes.
- Choose who can find you on Telegram
when they add your number to their phone contacts.
- Send a single 😁, 😧, 😡, :poo:, 😢 or
😮 to check out what's new in the animated emoji department.
- Right click the Send button to send any message
without sound - in case the recipient is sleeping.
- Enable Slow Mode in Group Permissions to control
how frequently members can post.
- Set custom titles for group admins - like 'Founder',
'CFO' or 'Spam Fighter'.
- Toggle looped playback for animated stickers in Chat Settings.
- Send a single ❤️, :like:, 😒, 😳 or :party:
to add a mighty animated emoji to the chat.
- Send ultra-lightweight high-quality animated stickers
to express emotion with motion.
- Receive animated stickers instantly on any connection
at just 20-30 KB per sticker.
- Enjoy smooth animations at 60 frames per second.
- Create new animated sets and upload them to @stickers
for everybody to use.
- Try out these sample stickers: t.me/addstickers/hotcherry
- Use strikethrough and underline formatting.
- You can now add any users to your contacts,
even if their phone numbers are not visible.
- Transfer ownership of group chats and channels
by granting full rights to another admin.
Useful when switching jobs or if you just want to retire as creator.
- Hide archived chats to the main menu.
- See who is online straight from the chat list.
- Use the MacBook Pro TouchBar to apply formatting to selected text,
insert emoji, and send stickers.
- Hide archived chats in the main menu.
- See who is online straight from the chat list.
- Apply formatting to selected text parts
from the MacBook Pro TouchBar.
- Choose who can see your phone number with granular precision
in Privacy & Security settings.
- Add group chats to "Always/Never Share" exceptions for any privacy
setting. Permissions will update as users leave and join the groups.
- Connect a discussion group to your channel,
subscribers will see a "Discuss" button.
- Integrate bots seamlessly with web services.
For example, see t.me/DiscussThis/1
- Use TouchBar on MacBooks Pro to control music playback
and switch between pinned chats.
Introducing Archived Chats:
- Archive any chat from the right-click menu.
- Chats with enabled notifications will pop out of the archive
when a notification arrives.
- Muted chats will stay in the archive.
- Pin an unlimited number of chats in your archive.
- Replace media when editing messages with media content.
- Jump quickly to the top of your chats list.
- Get emoji suggestions for the first word you type in a message.
- Help Telegram improve emoji suggestions in your language
using this interface https://translations.telegram.org/en/emoji
- Replace media when editing messages with media content.
- Jump quickly to the top of your chats list.
- Get emoji suggestions for the first word you type in a message.
- Help Telegram improve emoji suggestions in your language
using this interface https://translations.telegram.org/en/emoji
- Delete any message on both ends in any private chat, anytime.
- Control whether your forwarded messages link back to your account.
- Control who may see your profile picture.
- Enjoy the new streamlined group management screen.
- Global permissions for groups. Restrict all members in any group
from posting certain types of content.
- Unified group settings. Make groups public,
set admins with granular permissions and toggle persistent history
in just a few clicks in any group.
- Choose the emoji set you would like to use in Chat Settings.
- Choose input and output devices for Telegram Calls
in Settings > Advanced > Call Settings.
- Support for automatically downloading files and music.
- Choose the emoji set you would like to use
in Settings > Chat Settings.
- Choose input and output devices for Telegram Calls
in Settings > Adavanced > Call Settings.
- Support for custom languages. Crowdsource a cloud-based
language pack for Telegram in any language using our
Translations platform - then apply it in real time.
- Interface scaling for large screens, up to 300%
(up to 150% for macOS retina screens).
- 'Count unread messages' setting for the Badge counter
in Settings > Notifications. Disable to show number of unread chats.
- Video messages displayed in shared media (under voice messages).
- Updated emoji. Farewell to question marks!
Also in this update:
- Listen to voice and video messages in 2X mode if you're in a hurry.
- Add a comment when sharing posts from channels.
- View all photos and videos in Twitter and Instagram link previews.
- Add emoji to media captions.
- Add emoji to media captions.
- Switch off the 'Count unread messages' option
in Settings > Notifications if you want to see
the unread chats count in the badge instead.
- Listen to voice and video messages in 2X mode if you're in a hurry.
- Find video messages in the shared voice messages section.
- Add a comment when you share posts from channels.
- View all photos and videos in Twitter and Instagram link previews.
- Bug fixes and other minor improvements.
- Fully redesigned Settings section.
- New theme selector in Chat Settings.
- New local storage settings: Control how much disk space is used
by the cache and for how long the cached files are stored.
- Improved local caching for images and GIF animations.
- New settings: Peer-to-Peer settings for calls,
disable animations for low performance computers.
- Various other improvements.
- Fully redisigned Settings section.
- New theme selector in Chat Settings.
- New settings: Peer-to-Peer settings for calls,
disable animations for low performance computers.
- Various other improvements.
- Improved local caching for images and GIF animations.
- Control how much disk space is used by the cache
and for how long the cached files are stored.
- Export data from individual chats using the '...' menu.
- Added a new night theme.
- You can now assign custom themes as night and day themes
to quickly switch between them.
- Support for Telegram Passport 1.1 and improved password hashing
algorithm to better protect Telegram Passport data.
- Improved censorship circumvention.
- Improved stability when working through proxy servers.
- Save several proxy servers to quickly switch between them.
- Use proxy for calls.
- Emoji and text replacement now happens immediately after typing
(instead of after sending) and can be rolled back using Backspace
or CTRL/CMD + Z. Replacement no longer happens when pasting text.
Added formatting shortcuts. Select text and use:
- CTRL/CMD + B/I for bold and italic
- CTRL/CMD + K to create or edit a custom link
- CTRL/CMD + SHIFT + M for monospace font
- CTRL/CMD + SHIFT + N to clear formatting
- Apply markdown formatting (```, `, **, __)
only when sending the message.
- Display connection quality bars in calls.
- Telegram Desktop can update itself through MTProto.
- Bug fixes and other minor improvements.
- Use markdown in media captions
(**bold**, __italic__, `tag` and ```code```).
- Use emoji replacement in media captions,
group and channel titles and descriptions (:like: etc.)
- Markdown replacement now happens immediately
after typing (instead of after sending) and can be
rolled back using Backspace or Ctrl/Cmd + Z.
Replacement no longer happens when pasting text.
- Emoji and text replacements are done while you type the message.
- Revert emoji and text replacements by pressing backspace.
- Disable emoji replacements or suggestions in Settings.
- Some critical bug fixes.
- Discover new stickers.
Type one emoji to see suggestions from popular sticker sets.
Suggestions from your installed sticker sets will come first.
- Search for Stickers. Click on the new search icon
to access your sticker sets or find new ones.
- Quick Reply. Double click near a message for a quick reply.
- Quick Reply. Double click near a message for a quick reply.
- Search for Stickers. Click on the new search icon to access
your sticker sets or find new ones.
- When viewing a photo from an album, you'll see other pictures
from the same group as thumbnails in the lower part of the screen.
- When composing an album paste additional media from the clipboard.
- Bug fixes and other minor improvements.
- Radically improved navigation. New side panel on the right
with quick access to shared media and group members.
- Saved Messages. Bookmark messages by forwarding them to "Saved
Messages". Access them from the Chats list or from the side menu.
- Pinned Messages. If you are a channel admin, pin messages to
focus your subscribers' attention on important announcements.
- Easily recognize messages from group admins by the new admin badge.
- Also supported clearing history in supergroups and
added a host of minor improvements.
- Radically improved navigation. New side panel on the right
with quick access to shared media and group members.
- Pinned Messages. If you are a channel admin, pin messages
to focus your subscribers' attention on important announcements.
- Also supported clearing history in supergroups and added
a host of minor improvements.
- Groups with unread mentions and replies are now marked
with an '@' badge in the chats list.
- Navigate new mentions and replies in a group
using the new '@' button.
- Mark your stickers as “favorite” to quickly access them
from the redesigned sticker panel.
- Add an official sticker set for your group which all members will
be able to use while chatting in your group (100+ member groups only)
— Send **bold** and __italic__ text in your messages.
— Get a share link for posts in public supergroups.
— Quickly share posts from channels and media messages from bots.
— Search large supergroup members by name.
— Search channel members by name for admins.
— Use search in the service actions log.
— Ban supergroup members via the right click menu in the service actions log.
- Click on forwarded messages bar to change the recipient chat
in case you chose a wrong one first.
- Quickly share posts from channels and media messages from bots.
- Search in supergroup members by name.
- Search in channel members by name if you're a channel admin.
- Copy links to messages in public supergroups.
- Send **bold** and __italic__ text in your messages (in addition
to already supported `monospace` and ```multiline monospace```).
- Search in channel and supergroup admin event log.
- Ban members from right click menu in supergroup admin event log.
- Supergroups can now have up to 10.000 members.
- Appoint supergroup admins with granular rights.
Choose who can add users, manage messages, block members,
edit group info & username, add new admins, etc.
- Restrict and ban supergroup members with granular precision.
Read-only bans, GIF & sticker bans, media bans,
temporary bans and restrictions.
- Check the new event log to see all service actions taken by
members and admins of a channel or supergroup in the last 48 hours.
- Toggle night mode in the main menu.
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