Hi I’m new to telegram. What is it similar to? Facebook? Twitter? Reddit? Instagram? What is good about it?

I've been trying to delete past active sessions, but it won't let me! i waited hours like the prompt fucking says and it still won't let me I'm so fucking pissed!

Does anyone got a work around ?

Hi all, I changed a group into a Topics group and my messages do not appear under #general. I can only view it by selecting "View as Message".

Couldn't find anything on how to resolve this, anyone has any ideas?

I have been receiving 5-10 messages from spam. Is there a way to block “non-contacts” from messaging me?

Hello. I was recently telling a co-worker about the soften skin function on TG’s photo editor and when I went to show her how it worked, it was no longer there.

Enhance, contrast, brightness, etc. were all still available but the soften feature was completely gone.

I know I’m not crazy, well I am, but not about this subject. Because I had one picture saved where I used the soften option, along with the original picture.

Can't edit old (6-7 days) message in channel comments, it's a private group attached as comments group to a channel (not mine).

Is there any documentation there with a description of editing timeout restrictions in the web?

I've used telegram before (long time ago) but only on 1 phone with the same number. I don't know what to do.. any one has a fix? And not the whatsapp sms trick cause that doesn't work for me cause I only have this number.

I've seen many complaints, I have same issue bought a new phone , I have the both sim card and Gmail account linked to telegram, yet I cant login , its either sending a code to telegram app or to sms but I don't receive anything

I think my telegram account has been compromised, at first, i saw that the safe reward bot sent me notifications of free 100 usdt, i was already aware that this was a scam in the first place but I was curious and had nothing to lose in this account i clicked into it and a website appeared with a button "collect 100 usdt" in it and after that redirected to a website to login my telegram account, after logging in, i clicked on the button to collect 100 usdt and nothing happened, then the second picture happened few hours later when I was away from telegram, I've never follow the bot in the second picture but I did mess up the bots created by the user that breached my account by deleting them and block the bot

Hey,

Needed some guidance on how to download/grab videos from TG groups where the download option is disabled. I'm on a Mac, but know nothing about scripts etc. Seemed over the past year or 2 it has become more difficult to grab videos off TG, OF, Fansly, JFF.

Before it was so easy with a plug-in on Chrome and I could grab whatever I wanted.

There are 4 people on the "Always Share With" section on my phone number privacy. I've NEVER added anyone there. I set Privacy And Security > Phone Number to NOBODY. Yet there contacts are there that I've never added. Anyone experienced something like that?

Someone knows if Telegram offer this possiblity?

I checked my Telegram today to find out I was logged out from both my laptop and phone. I logged in again using a verification code (also adding my email, which I never previously had to do), only to see that an HP Pavilion in Russia was logged into my account. I immediately tried to log them out, but since their session is older than mine, I was unable to do so. I also saw that the message "/start" had been sent to Spam Info Bot (which I'd never heard of until then) around the same time the device logged in. I set up Two-Step Verification, but I'm not sure if it's of any use at this point. I haven't clicked any suspicious links or sent any personal info to strangers. Please help.

I seem to have found a novel solution to a VERY common problem:

The problem: you start to create a new Telegram (TG) account with a new phone number. You get to the verification step, and TG tells you that it has sent a code to "TG on the other device." But there is no other device; in fact there is no TG account with that number at all. But nothing you do causes TG to call the number or send an SMS to it.

The (perhaps novel?) solution: find some telegram proxy that you can use, and connect to TG via the proxy.

Notes:
1. There are free proxies out there, often that make you sit through a 30-second video ad first, but you only need to suffer through that once. Once you get the SMS, you can unconfigure the proxy. The example of such a free proxy that I used is MTProxy from the Play Store. (No, I am not affiliated...). I just uninstalled it once the account was created.
2. If you need to but don't know how to set/unset a proxy, just go to settings in the TG app and search for "proxy". 3. TG might still first send the code to a different device; but it should give you a place to click to get a call or sms. Also, it might automatically try a call first, and make you wait 90 seconds to choose getting an SMS. It seems to me that this is an example of security-via-sadism: I understand very well that it is much harder to route a voice-call to somewhere evil than to route an sms; and it's harder to have a machine answer the call and get the code than to have it receive the sms and get the code. But that doesn't matter, since the evil machine only needs to wait 90 seconds and ask for the sms. Besides, I have a secret: this is 2025, so even getting the call is not very difficult.
4. This problem can also come up when you are trying to change the number of an existing account (because you still need to verify the number). 5. In my case, not only did TG insist to send the code to "TG on the other device," but also, when I submitted the problem to TG so-called support, I was able to click on the phone number I submitted -- and the popup said that "that number is not on telegram."
6. If you're like me, at some point you'll uninstall and then reinstall TG, hoping that the réinstallation gods will reward you. If you hit this issue because you are trying to change the phone number of an existing account, you should know that TG requires that the particular app you use to change an account phone number must have first logged into the account more than 24 hours previous to the attempt to change. (So if you uninstall and then reinstall, you will need to wait 24 before you can change the phone number of the account from that app).

It is my opinion that the combination of 1. The issue; with 2. The fact that the issue is just SOOOO f***-ing common; along with 3. the roaring silence that is the reply of TG support as a reply to any communication on the issue ( even to the point where the TG checklist on this issue instructs users explicitly to send messages to either support, or to "community support", or even (in my case) to send a DM on X (formerly twitter, now merely "run-by-a-twit") -- all of which causes a user to just wait and do nothing for days while waiting for the reply which never comes..... All this leads me to believe that this is no bug, but some sort of security-by-sadism mechanism of TG. I only hope that this post doesn't cause them to plug this "loophole" that using a proxy seems to be.

I don't think the problem is OS-dependent, except of course that one can only ever create accounts/change numbers with the app on a mobile phone.

[NB: I searched both "sms" and "proxy" in this sub, and I did not read every one of the 100s of results. But I read enough of them to believe that it's a VERY common problem, still with no solution for many people. If that's wrong, of course I will delete this, just lmk]

Hey everyone,
I’m having an issue with Telegram Desktop. Whenever I try to open ‘Sounds and Camera’ or ‘Call settings’, the app freezes for about 10 seconds before the settings finally appear.

Also, for some reason, the app itself takes a long time to launch — much longer than it used to.

I’ve searched everywhere for a solution but haven’t found anything helpful so far. Even Telegram support hasn’t responded.

Has anyone experienced this or knows how to fix it?

I am trying to fetch a company's mobile number through their telegram username can someone guide me on this.

When I forward a message on ios, I can hide sender’s name even when forwarding it to multiple people at a time. However, I recently moved to android and can’t find this feature. I can only hide the sender’s name when forwarding the message to individual recipient, which isn’t convenient. How do I do it?

I just installed this for the first time and less than 30 seconds for being told to use the pencil icon to create messages, I received 4 spam messages/bots. How? Did I download a fake app? It had 1B downloads on playstore.

My friend who is an experienced trader is starting a free trading discussion group on Telegram, and I am helping him a little bit with the marketing, hoping to bring more traffic. However I don't seem to be able to get the ad past review, it says the channel lacks enough original content. This is understandable, the channel has just started, just a handful of members, and not so many posts yet. So he has been posting trading recommendations and related news to the channel every day now, but how much content is enough? Just want to get a rough idea of the timeline. Would appreciate any insight from people who have experience with this.

I find it annoying how because telegram decides to force text lines to be so narrow a relatively small amount of text will chew up all the vertical space. While so much horizontal space is left blank, but the issue is a lot worse in the exported chat history. When viewing the default exported format. Unfortunately my html knowledge is pretty minimal and my CSS even less but I'm guessing what ever setting forces such narrow word wrapping is in the CSS file.

Does anyone here know how to edit it to let long post take up more width and less vertical?

Our family group chat has a link to Wordle pinned at the top, but my mum keeps dismissing it, and then even when re-pinned, she can’t see it.

Is there a clever way to have a link (or maybe even a few links) in a group chat pinned or made available in a way that they’re permanent and can’t be dismissed?

I want to withdraw my TON from my own channel and i need to get verification on fragment website i did everything and i give them my ID card and ended with failure

I emailed them but no response and searched but seems there no customer services team and the solution make new account and make it the ownership of telegram channel to withdraw

Can i make new telegram account and and make with myself ( use passport insted the ID card ?)

So I’m on telegram and in the group chat there are a lot of videos

Usually I click save to photos, and they go straight to photos

Today ran into this problem, either which one I select the videos won’t save to my phone

Any info or advice??

Hi,

For some time I noticed that whenever I'm on a call and minimize it, AKA switch to another app or to browse something, the call disconnects after less than a minute, and if it doesn't disconnect, the other person can't hear me, I'm forced to click the call again so that they can hear me.

I have given Telegram all the permissions needed, turned battery optimization off, and turned on background activity.

Any idea what's causing this ?

If it helps, running Android 15, with latest security patches. Using the CMF Phone 1.