WHAT'S NEW
• PROFILE PHOTO MAKER: create profile photos from animated emoji and stickers.
• EMOJI CATEGORIES: filter stickers and emoji by categories like "love" or "party".
• CHAT TRANSLATION (PREMIUM): translate entire chats in real time.
• AUTO-SAVE MEDIA: based on size, type and source.
• GRANULAR MEDIA PERMISSIONS: control whether group members can send 9 types of media.
• ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS: prepay for a year of Premium at a discount.
See the Telegram blog for FOUR more major changes.
Telegram App DESCRIPTION
Pure instant messaging — simple, fast, secure, and synced across all your devices. One of the world’s top 10 most downloaded apps with over 500 million active users.
FAST: Telegram is the fastest messaging app on the market, connecting people via a unique, distributed network of data centers around the globe.
SYNCED: You can access your messages from all your phones, tablets and computers at once. Telegram apps are standalone, so you don’t need to keep your phone connected. Start typing on one device and finish the message from another. Never lose your data again.
UNLIMITED: You can send media and files, without any limits on their type and size. Your entire chat history will require no disk space on your device, and will be securely stored in the Telegram cloud for as long as you need it.
SECURE: We made it our mission to provide the best security combined with ease of use. Everything on Telegram, including chats, groups, media, etc. is encrypted using a combination of 256-bit symmetric AES encryption, 2048-bit RSA encryption, and Diffie–Hellman secure key exchange.
100% FREE & OPEN: Telegram has a fully documented and free API for developers, open source apps and verifiable builds to prove the app you download is built from the exact same source code that is published.
POWERFUL: You can create group chats with up to 200,000 members, share large videos, documents of any type (.DOCX, .MP3, .ZIP, etc.) up to 2 GB each, and even set up bots for specific tasks. Telegram is the perfect tool for hosting online communities and coordinating teamwork.
RELIABLE: Built to deliver your messages using as little data as possible, Telegram is the most reliable messaging system ever made. It works even on the weakest mobile connections.
FUN: Telegram has powerful photo and video editing tools, animated stickers and emoji, fully customizable themes to change the appearance of your app, and an open sticker/GIF platform to cater to all your expressive needs.
SIMPLE: While providing an unprecedented array of features, we take great care to keep the interface clean. Telegram is so simple you already know how to use it.
PRIVATE: We take your privacy seriously and will never give any third parties access to your data. You can delete any message you ever sent or received for both sides, at any time and without a trace. Telegram will never use your data to show you ads.
For those interested in maximum privacy, Telegram offers Secret Chats. Secret Chat messages can be programmed to self-destruct automatically from both participating devices. This way you can send all types of disappearing content — messages, photos, videos, and even files. Secret Chats use End-to-End Encryption to ensure that a message can only be read by its intended recipient.
We keep expanding the boundaries of what you can do with a messaging app. Don’t wait years for older messengers to catch up with Telegram — join the revolution today.
App REVIEWS
I'm so pissed. For some reason files that I download to my telegram videos and photos are getting missing. They don't all delete at once. Sometimes I delete cache, then later some videos and photos disappear. Or when I leave a group, then some photos and videos suddenly disappear later. Another time, when I open the telegram folder while a file is downloading, I end up losing a lot of videos and photos. I am tired of losing and redownloading my photos and videos. I want them back!
frankly bizarre UI options. for example to save a gif, you must first select a message, tap save to GIFs, which does not save the gif, but rather it is added to a favorites list. then you must send a message with that gif from the list, now select your sent message, and press download, which will then save the file to your downloads folder. which just seems bizarre to me. often unresponsive and takes multiple presses to open a chat.
I am just giving one star to grab the developers' attention! After the last update, I am having strange problems. For example, media (photos and videos) and voice messages do not open even though they are fully downloaded. Also, the reactions are greyed out and not visible sometimes. And in one word no matter how fast the network is the media just keep rolling it never complete the downloads please, fix this problem? Let me know how to solve it. Thanks!
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Sorry for the inconvenience. We've tried to fix the issue, can you please check latest version? If the problem is still there, please contact us by email qa@telegram.org to provide more details about the issue. Thank you in advance!
After this update Telegram sucks. After tapping on filed images, I can't see the images in high quality, they're just blurred, can see nothing, if I send the images as file(HQ). Closed the app, reopened again, and it's still the same, I can see only blurred images. Likely, my phone is trying to load image to show. And now I can only send the images as compressed by default cuz the images which are sent as files aren't usable if I send. Had such a bad experience with this Telegram in 7 years.
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Sorry for the inconvenience. We've tried to fix the issue, can you please check latest version? If the problem is still there, please contact us by email qa@telegram.org to provide more details about the issue. Thank you in advance!
Telegram is a great app for messaging and calling, but it could be even better. Adding a status feature, like WhatsApp, would be a great way to help people express themselves and connect with friends and family. Additionally, the app's interface could be simplified to make it easier to find features and navigate. While there are many features, it can be overwhelming and confusing. Overall, I would recommend Telegram with the addition of a status feature and a simpler interface.
I really enjoy and recommend this app however there's still lots of features that can be added , and also, it has a bunch of bugs too!! As I experienced when playing a music and someone's calling then app will be closed and music will not continue playing, also auto-night mode is never worked for me , it's always in dark/light mode when I change it manually
Ok but notifications are broken on Android. They reset to default after a few messages. Calls are a bit of a mess. They don't behave properly - earbuds, skin detection are all hit and miss. Also, why take up most of the home page with a list of other Telegram users? You can't save any media. Finally it's ridiculous that you can't export your chats. Great way to trash a brand and app....
It used to be the best. Now it merely reaches ok. Some groups were I'm admin change themselves to supergroup without touching them. The chat skins only last applied for as long as you use it that time, next time you open it'll be back to default. Lately some image galleries keep appearing and disappearing randomly. A bunch of annoying bugs that are lowering the standard of the app.
Obviously a great messaging app, you don't need me to convince you about that. There is however one small thing that frustrates the hell out of me: directly replying to a message requires you to swipe from right to left. I've gotten to used to doing the exact opposite from years of WhatsApp, and find it hard to remember. Plus, sometimes the message is so short it can't register the swipe, making it impossible to do.
Very good app overall. But 4 stars because the app doesn't switch to a Bluetooth headset mid-call (i.e., during a call, the phone connects to the headset but Telegram doesn't, Telegram keeps using the phone speaker). Verified on two different phones so it must be an issue with the app. Other apps, like WhatsApp and Messenger, don't have this issue. Workaround in Telegram is to end the call, close the app and then call again with the Bluetooth headset. This is disruptive to our conversation.
The new update has completely obliterated its usability. I can't send a single message to any person, even on a fresh install. When I write my message and hit enter/send button, the message just stays there while its dedicated timer symbol spins uncontrollably. Sending a message is a basic necessity of a social exchange app. If you can't even get that right, there's nothing left to say. Totally useless.
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Sorry for the inconvenience. Can you please contact us by email qa@telegram.org to provide more details about the issue. Thank you in advance!
In terms of messaging it's fine. The problems are with calling. Especially with Bluetooth earbuds. If I have earbuds on and I take them off, the call automatically switches to speakers but when I put my earbuds back in, telegram won't allow me to switch back to my earbuds. I have to restart the whole call. There are connectivity issues where I can hear the other person but they can't hear me. Again I have to restart the call to fix. This app is not good for calling with earbuds. Not seamless.
When i change my telegram colour theme to one it randomly changes back to something else. When I leave the telegram and come back to the app the theme i set would be changed. It happened after i updated the app. I think it's a bug. I tried to uninstall and install the app several times. But it is not working. I hope you will fix it soon. It is really an inconvenience to always come back and change the theme.
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Sorry for the inconvenience. Can you please contact us by email qa@telegram.org to provide more details about the issue. Thank you in advance!
From about 2 months ago this app just broke. Gifs and videos play in a stutter mode or they are completely pixelated. Media takes an eternity to send even though its just a 1mb file (and no, internet is not the issue). I receive notifications from group messages even though they are muted. I think ever since Premium was introduced, the free version just became unreliable, almost unusable. Its a shame really, will just switch to Whatsapp.
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Sorry for the inconvenience. Can you please contact us by email qa@telegram.org to provide more details about the issues. Thank you in advance!
Smooth and easy to use. Calls are lite and fast. Depending on your connection. Pics sharing is also good and video as well. But I'm experiencing problems with messages. Sometimes it's like it stops sending them. And the hang there waiting to be sent. I can receive messages but not send. I am forced to restart the phone or clear the cache but it only works for a while and sometimes it doesn't work as fast. Fix this problem.
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Sorry for the inconvenience. We've tried to fix the issue, could you please check in the version 9.4.4. If the problem is still there, please email us to qa@telegram.org to provide more details about the issue. Thank you very much in advance.
When you clear a notification from the top bar in your phone, the app pushes out the notification again and again. You can't clear notifications unless you open the app or mark the item as read. That's garbage. Sometimes I don't have time to deal with it and will come back later but I can't get the notification to go away. The only fix is to delete the app.
very stable, fast, reliable and feature rich but without making the app feel slow, laggy or crowded. yesterday there was a small bug which didn't affect functionality but when i tapped a notification it opened the list of conversations instead of that certain conversation and today it's already fixed and it works as intended once again. keep up the good work guys!
The calling screen on the tab s8 plus is forcing me into portrait mode which sucks, and there is a bug where if I open the emojis and click on the text field to send a message and the keyboard is in floating mode, I can't seem to back from the keyboard or close the emoji menu unless I close the app. Wish they were fixed but other than that awesome app, even be worth a premium if it wasn't for those two bugs
The new reactions are being pushed way too hard. Double clicking on any message makes me accidentally react to it now and every time I select a message it takes longer to open because of the animated reaction menu. I want to be able to disable reactions entirely. The more updates that are pushed, the more buggy and bloated that this app gets. It won't even open correctly for me after the last update. I started using this app because it was lightweight and reliable for text and image sharing...
It used to work very well. All over sudden, the voice message stops working. Whenever I send someone a voice message, it doesn't go. I have good internet connection, I updated my phone, I tried different things, nothing worked. I use to think that it was better than whatsapp, but now I'm getting disappointed ☹️👎🏾👎🏾 PS: at first, I thought the problem was my phone, but some friends told me the same issue (when they send voice message, it doesn't go!!!)
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Sorry for the inconvenience. The problem should be fixed in the last version. If it's still there, please contact us by email qa@telegram.org to provide more details about the issue. Thank you in advance!
