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GIFs. Telegram has thousands of high-quality GIFs – featuring scenes from your favorite movies and shows.
Open the GIF section of your Sticker Panel to see what’s trending, search for something specific, or browse the themed tabs to find one that matches an emotion.
Simply tap to send, or press and hold to preview the full image – and add it to your saved GIFs or schedule it for a later time.
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Save to Gallery. Automatically save incoming media to your gallery in Settings > Data and Storage. You can control it by chat type – with the option to enable it separately for users, groups or channels.
On iOS, go to Settings > Data and Storage > Save Incoming Photos.
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Animated Profile Pictures on macOS. Create a custom, looping profile video on macOS from your favorite animated stickers and emoji – complete with gradient backgrounds and patterns.
You can add one to your own account, or create them for groups and channels – quickly giving any chat a personalized icon.
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External Sharing. Users can directly share large media items to Telegram from other apps – saving time and storage space.
On iOS, you can follow the status of your upload with an animated progress bar.
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Preview Chats. Press and hold the profile picture of any chat to view its messages – without marking them as read.
You can scroll in the preview window to see more of the chat history, or use the menu buttons to quickly pin, mute or mark as read.
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⭐ Doubled Limits. With Telegram Premium, you get increased limits for almost everything in the app.
Follow 1000 channels, create 20 folders with 200 chats each, add a fourth account to any app, pin 10 chats in the main list, save 10 favorite stickers – and more.
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⭐ Premium Icons. Premium users have 3 more app icons to choose from – a premium star, turbo plane, and night sky.
All Android and iOS users have several default icon options, like Vintage and Aqua in Settings > Chat Settings (Android) or Settings > Appearance (iOS).
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⭐ No Ads in Public Channels. Sponsored Messages are shown in some large public channels. These privacy-conscious advertisments help support Telegram’s costs, but are hidden for Premium subscribers.
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⭐ Profile Badges. Premium subscribers have a special badge that appears next to their name in the chat list, chat headers, member lists in groups, and on their profile.
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⭐ Animated Profile Pictures. The profile videos of Premium users animate throughout the app – including in chats and the chat list.
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⭐ Auto-Archive and Mute. Premium users can set new chats from non-contacts to automatically go to their Archived Chats with notifications disabled.
Enable this setting via Settings > Privacy and Security > Archive and Mute. This option will also appear for any free users who have many chats with non-contacts.
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⭐ Default Chat Folder. With Telegram Premium, you can change your default folder from All Chats to a custom one, like Work or Unread.
To change it, press and hold a folder, tap Reorder, then drag a new folder to the first space.
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⭐ Premium Reactions. Several unique reaction emoji are available to Premium users – like 👌😍❤️🔥🤡💯🐳🌭.
All users can increase the count of these emoji on a message after a Premium user reacts with one.
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⭐ Premium Stickers. Premium subscribers can send dozens of stickers with full-screen effects – which can be seen by all users.
More premium stickers from Telegram artists are added every month.
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⭐ Transcribe Voice Messages. Premium users can tap the →A button to quickly read a voice message or copy text from the audio.
You can also rate the transcription to help improve accuracy – tap the voice message on Android, or press and hold on iOS.
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⭐ Faster Download Speed. Telegram Premium unlocks the fastest possible download speed – loading media and saving files as fast as your network allows.
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⭐ 4 GB File Uploads. Telegram Premium subscribers can send media and files each up to 4 GB in size – which all users can download.
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Telegram Premium lets users support the app and unlock exclusive features like:
⭐️ 4 GB Uploads
⭐️ Faster Download Speed
⭐️ Transcribing Voice Messages
⭐️ Premium Stickers
⭐️ Premium Reactions
⭐️ Default Chat Folders
⭐️ Auto-Archiving Chats
All existing features will remain free, and new features for all users will be added in every update.
To see the full list of Premium features, go to Settings > Telegram Premium.
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Telegram now has over 700 million users and is one of the world’s top 5 most-used apps.
To read more about this milestone and the future of Telegram, check out our blog post.
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Picture-in-Picture Playback. Continue watching videos while you browse other chats or even other apps.
Tap or click the PiP icon in the media viewer on any app to switch to picture-in-picture mode, and pinch or drag to resize the player window. To close the window, drag it off screen or tap the ⓧ.
On iOS, drag the player to the side of your screen to hide the video and keep listening to its audio.
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Bot Admins. Some bots are built for use in groups and channels – to help moderators or add fun features.
Bots can be added directly to chats from their profile, letting you instantly configure their rights.
Bots can be added to groups as members or admins, but can only be added to channels as admins.
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Bot Interfaces. Developers can create infinitely flexible interfaces for bots using JavaScript.
With these, bots can replace any website – like online stores, games and services.
Interface elements can update in real time, changing to match a user’s theme or night mode. Check out @DurgerKingBot to see them in action.
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Replies in Forwarded Messages. Select messages to forward them to another chat. Forwards show replies to keep the full context of the conversation.
You can control whether forwarded messages include a link to your account in Settings > Privacy and Security.
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Silence or Mute Notifications. Disable alert sounds from a chat or turn off notifications completely.
Select ‘Mute for’ on Android or ‘Mute until’ 🔔 on iOS to set a custom mute duration – pausing notifications for a specific period.
You can also quickly mute chats from your chat list.
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Notification Sounds. Tap short audio files or voice messages and select 'Save for Notifications' to create custom alert tones that sync across your devices – like the 20+ sounds available here.
You can set unique tones for individual chats, or entire groups of chats. Add and manage tones via Settings > Notifications and Sounds or in specific chats.
On Android, tap ⋮ > Mute > Customize in a chat header.
On iOS, tap Mute > Customize from a chat’s info page.
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Browser Previews. Anyone can open
t.me links to see profiles, posts or entire public channels in their browser – even if they haven’t signed up for Telegram yet.
These previews include buttons to quickly download Telegram for mobile and desktop, or to open it in Telegram Web.00:09
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Phone Number Links. Post or share a
t.me link anywhere to let others quickly contact you, based on your phone number.
These links follow your Phone Number Privacy settings – if a user isn’t allowed to find you by your number, the link will not work for them.
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Browse Your Gallery. Quickly access specific folders in your gallery like videos, screenshots and favorites.
On Android, pull the attachment panel to the top of your screen and tap Gallery to select a folder from the menu.
On iOS, tap the 🔍 at the top of the panel to show all your albums.
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Preview Media Albums. After selecting multiple items in the 📎 attachment menu, tap ‘⋯ selected’ to preview the message before sending.
Drag an item to change its place in the album, add a caption or remove selected media.
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Download Manager. Control your media and file downloads from the Downloads tab in Search, or tap the ⬇️ icon that appears in the chat list when you have active downloads.
Pause and resume all downloads or individual items – and select one to view it in chat. On iOS, you can select an item to raise its priority, so it will be downloaded first.
Navigate Recent Chats. Press and hold the ‘Back’ button to return to a specific chat after opening other chats from forwarded messages, links, profiles and more.
When jumping through unread channels, previous channels from the feed will also appear in the list.
Reaction Effects and Read Status. Animations for reactions are compact and play in real time for all chat members. To send a larger effect, press and hold an emoji in the menu.
Reactions also have read status – tap the ♡ button that appears in chat to jump to your messages with unseen reactions.
Video Stickers. Easily create animated stickers from .WEBM video files in any editing program and publish them using the @Stickers bot.
For more details, check out the Video Sticker Manual and this step-by-step Stickers Bot Guide.
Developers can use the Sticker Import API to build apps for creating and importing stickers to Telegram.
Text Recognition. On devices with iOS 13 or macOS 10.15 and above, you can use Live Text to select and copy text directly from photos in chat.
On iOS, tap to open a photo in the media viewer, then tap the text icon to isolate words from the background. The macOS app automatically detects text in photos – ready for you to select with your cursor.
This secure image recognition is handled entirely on your device.
QR Codes for Public Profiles. Generate a QR code for yourself or any user with a public username – as well as any public group, channel or bot.
Tap the QR code icon next to a person’s username or on a chat’s info page, customize its appearance, then print, post or share the code anywhere.
You can generate a QR code for your username from the Settings page.
Message Translation. In Settings > Language you can add a dedicated Translate button to the context menu when selecting a message.
You can also exclude languages that you speak fluently, which will hide the translation button for those messages.
Translation is available on all Android devices that support Telegram, but requires iOS 15+ on Apple devices.