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Telegram stands for freedom and privacy and has many easy to use features.
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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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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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Auto-Save Incoming Media. Media from any chat can be automatically saved to your gallery – filtered by size, format and chat type.

Individual exceptions can be added for any chats to change their parameters and ensure that nothing unnecessary is saved.

To enable this setting, go to Settings > Data and Storage and look for Save to Gallery on Android or Save to Photos on iOS.
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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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🌟 Custom Emoji. Premium users can include 😎 unique animated emoji in messages and captions to add even more expression to chats.

Open the 🙂 emoji tab of the 📑 sticker panel to browse your packs or add new ones. You can tap a message to view and add the packs it's using (press and hold on iOS).

Emoji are an open platform – anyone can upload custom packs with their artwork. All users can 🤓 see any custom emoji and use them in their Saved Messages.
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Interactive Custom Emoji. Many custom emoji are also interactive when sent in 1-on-1 chats – anyone can ❤️ tap to play synchronized full-screen effects.

Try it with common emotions like 😂😍😁😱👍🥳🔥 and more.

All custom emoji are included in emoji suggestions – you’ll also see suggestions from your custom packs after typing static emoji.
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🌟 Restrict Voice Messages. Premium subscribers can control who is able to send them voice and video messages.

Like other privacy settings, this supports exceptions – choose specific people or groups with different permissions.

The 🎤 voice and 📷 video buttons fade out for anyone who you don’t allow, letting them know you prefer text.
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🌟 Gifting Telegram Premium. Anyone with Premium can send a prepaid subscription for 3, 6 or 12 months to another user – at a discount.

Open a user’s profile, tap or and choose Gift Premium. The subscription will instantly arrive as a special animated message in your chat with that user.
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Infinite Reactions. All users have access to dozens of reaction emoji like 👍🤣🔥❤️👏🐳⚡️🏆 from an expandable menu in groups and 1-on-1 chats.

Premium users can react with up to 3 emoji on any message and can use any custom emoji – for thousands more possibilities.
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🌟 Emoji Statuses. Show what you’re up to with Telegram Premium – replacing your 🌟 badge with an unlimited number of emoji options.

Statuses appear in chats and interfaces throughout the app, letting others know that you’re at work 👨‍💻 in class 🧑‍🎓 and more 🏖️

Tap your badge in the chat list or Settings to add a status, and hold an emoji to set the status for a specific duration.
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Collectible Usernames. Acquire and exchange unique usernames on a new platform, secured by the TON blockchain.

In addition to a basic username, any user can have multiple collectible ones that can be assigned to their profile, group or channel – or reserved for later use.

Collectibles have the same features as basic usernames – they appear in Global Search results, can be used for @mentions, and have their own t.me links.
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🌟 Transcribe Video Messages. Premium users can tap the →A button next to video messages or voice messages to generate a transcription of its audio.

After transcribing, you can switch back to the video view by tapping the🔼 button.
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Topics. Any group can enable topics in Group Settings to organize their discussion into separate spaces.

Each topic works like a chat – with its own shared media and notification settings, supporting powerful features like polls, bots, games and more.

The group’s service messages and pre-topic message history are included in the default General topic. Admins can rename this topic or hide it from the main list.
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Anonymous Numbers. Sign up without a SIM card or make your existing account more incognito with an anonymous number from Fragment.

These numbers don’t receive calls or SMS – instead, your login code is always available in the My Anonymous Numbers section of Fragment.

Like collectible usernames, ownership of anonymous numbers is tied to your TON wallet in the blockchain and can be sold or traded to others.
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Global Auto-Delete. Set messages to self-destruct in all new chats via Settings > Privacy and Security > Auto-Delete Messages.

From the same page, you can quickly enable auto-delete for any other chats in just a few taps.
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Aggressive Anti-Spam. Admins in groups of 200+ members can enable Aggressive Anti-Spam to unleash the full force of Telegram’s experienced anti-spam algorithms in their chat.

These algorithms are more precise and efficient than third-party bots, and allow admins to report false positives from the Recent Actions page to further train the tools.
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Emoji Search. Type a keyword like heart or an emoji like 👋 into the search bar of the emoji panel to find an exact emotion, or to see matching suggestions from all your custom packs.

You can also type shortcuts like :lol or :smile in the message bar to get suggestions right from your keyboard.

Emoji keywords are available in multiple languages – and anyone can add their shortcut suggestions on our Translations Platform.
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Detailed Storage Usage. You can see how much space each chat is using on your device and clear the media of individual chats from your cache, filtered by file type.

Clearing your cache does not delete any messages or media from your chats – they stay in the chat history, ready to re-download when you need them.

The Storage Usage page has several settings to maximize storage space – like automatically removing older media from your cache.
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Temporary QR Codes. Any user can quickly share their contact info with others by generating a QR code from the Settings page.

If you don’t have a username and hide your phone number from everyone, the QR codes you generate will be temporary – working for just a few minutes. Temporary QR codes never share your phone number, only your chosen name.
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Spoiler Media. Photos and videos can be sent with a shimmering spoiler effect in any chat – hiding the contents until your recipient taps to view it.

To apply spoiler effects, select your media in the 📎attachment menu, tap or and Hide With Spoiler.

You can also apply the same spoiler effect to text in messages or captions.
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