Telegram News

700 Million Users and Telegram Premium

Telegram now has over 700 million monthly active users. Today we're launching Telegram Premium – a subscription that lets you support Telegram's continued development and gives access…
Jun 21, 2022

Notification Sounds, Bot Revolution and More

Today's update adds creating your own notification tones, setting custom durations for muting chats or auto-deleting messages, as well…
Apr 16, 2022

Download Manager, New Attachment Menu, Live Streaming With Other Apps and More

Today's update brings tools to help you control your downloads, send documents with a tap, re-arrange media albums before sending, turn…
Mar 11, 2022

Video Stickers, Better Reactions and More

This update brings easy-to-make video stickers, better reactions with more compact animations and extra emoji, a button to review unseen…
Jan 31, 2022

Reactions, Spoilers, Translation and QR Codes

Telegram's 12th update of the year introduces reactions, message translation, themed QR codes, hidden text (spoilers), and more.
Dec 30, 2021

Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and More

Today's update brings tools to prevent others from saving content from groups and channels, the ability to delete messages for specific…
Dec 7, 2021

Hyper-Speed Scrolling and Calendar View for Shared Media, Join Requests, Global Chat Themes on iOS and More

Today's update brings new ways to find memories in shared media with accelerated scrolling…
Nov 3, 2021

Chat Themes, Interactive Emoji, Read Receipts in Groups and Live Stream Recording

Today's update lets you set different themes for individual chats, share your feelings with…
Sep 19, 2021

Live Streams, Flexible Forwarding, Jump to Next Channel, Trending Stickers and More

Telegram 8.0 brings live streams with unlimited viewers to groups and channels, options to…
Aug 31, 2021

Video Calls with up to 1000 Viewers, Video Messages 2.0, Video Playback Speed and More

This update takes video to the next level. Group video calls now have up to 1000 viewers,…
Jul 30, 2021

Group Video Calls

Today's update lets you turn on your camera or share your screen during Voice Chats in groups – on all devices, including tablets and desktops. This brings voice chats to a whole new…
Jun 25, 2021

Animated Backgrounds

In addition to Group Video Calls, this update adds animated backgrounds and message sending animations, as well as a new menu button for bots, new ways to import stickers, reminders…
Jun 25, 2021

Payments 2.0, Scheduled Voice Chats, New Web Versions

This update brings Payments 2.0 for all Telegram chats, Scheduling and Mini Profiles for Voice Chats, new versions of Telegram Web for…
Apr 26, 2021

Voice Chats 2.0: Channels, Millions of Listeners, Recorded Chats, Admin Tools

Voice Chats first appeared in December, adding a new dimension of live talk to Telegram groups. Starting today, they become available in…
Mar 19, 2021

Auto-Delete, Widgets and Expiring Invite Links

This update brings an auto-delete timer for messages in any chat, as well as new flexible invite links and faster access to your chats…
Feb 23, 2021

Moving Chat History from Other Apps

Over 100 million new users joined Telegram this January, seeking more privacy and freedom. But what about the messages and memories that remain in older apps? Starting today, everyone…
Jan 28, 2021

Voice Chats Done Right

Today, Telegram groups get an entire new dimension with Voice Chats – persistent conference calls that members can join and leave as they please. Our 12th update in 2020 brings them…
Dec 23, 2020

Pinned Messages 2.0, Improved Live Locations, Playlists and More

Halloween is just around the corner and we've assembled choice tools to help organize your trick-or-treating. Practice your voodoo skills…
Oct 30, 2020

Search Filters, Anonymous Admins, Channel Comments and More

Your personal Telegram Cloud is endless and full of spicy memes – to help you find your way around it, we're introducing Search Filters.…
Sep 30, 2020

Video Calls and Seven Years of Telegram

Today marks seven years of Telegram. In 2013, we began as a small app focused on secure messaging and have since grown into a platform with over 400M users. Now this platform also…
Aug 14, 2020