Tips and Tricks

Unofficial knowledge base about the Telegram messenger

From People Nearby or chats with newly-joined contacts, you can tap to send a suggested sticker and say hello.
The Sticker Panel has over 20,000 free stickers from professional artists. You can take a look at what’s trending, search for something specific – or simply type an emoji to get instant suggestions. Animated Stickers run at a smooth 60 frames per second. They consume less battery than GIFs and are 6 times smaller than […]
Instantly sign in to Telegram’s Desktop and Web apps with your mobile device. All Telegram apps are standalone – after you log in, you do not need to keep your phone nearby or connected to the internet.
Turn any video into a GIF by tapping the mute audio button. The new GIF also appears in your recent GIFs tab, making it easy to send and share more than once.
Quickly send recent photos or videos at their full resolutionby selecting ‘Send without Compression’ on Android or ‘Send as File’ on iOS.
Send multiple media items to create a compact album, then tap to flip through the fullscreen photos and videos.
Add a circular or linear blur effect to photos – pinch to change the size, spread or angle.
Adjust 10 different parameters like brightness, saturation and contrast for both photos and videos.
Tap the undo button to remove your last action in the media editor. On iOS, users can also use an eraser to wipe away small mistakes.
Add illustrations to your media items in several styles, like arrows. Move left and right on the slider to pick a color, then slide up and down to change brush size.
Enhance. Brightness, contrast and many other parameters are automatically adjusted to create vibrant photos and videos.
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