Stories. Every user can quickly share moments and see what friends are up to – right at the top of the chat list.
When viewing a story, you can tap to share, reply or react. For a quick ❤️, just tap – or hold down for hundreds of emoji options.
You can create stories with photos or videos – either from your gallery, or recorded with the in-app camera.
When posting, you can select from 4 privacy settings: Everyone, My Contacts, Close Friends and Selected Users – all of which can be completely customized with exceptions and updated at any time.
Stories can last for 6 to 48 hours – or they can be posted to your profile, arranged in a scrollable grid, where users can see your highlights for as long as you want.
For even more details, check out this in-depth guide to Telegram Stories.
Stories. Every user can quickly share moments and see what friends are up to – right at the top of the chat list.
When viewing a story, you can tap to share, reply or react. For a quick ❤️, just tap – or hold down for hundreds of emoji options.
You can create stories with photos or videos – either from your gallery, or recorded with the in-app camera.
When posting, you can select from 4 privacy settings: Everyone, My Contacts, Close Friends and Selected Users – all of which can be completely customized with exceptions and updated at any time.
Stories can last for 6 to 48 hours – or they can be posted to your profile, arranged in a scrollable grid, where users can see your highlights for as long as you want.
For even more details, check out this in-depth guide to Telegram Stories.
Telegram’s stand out feature is its encryption scheme that keeps messages and media secure in transit. The scheme is known as MTProto and is based on 256-bit AES encryption, RSA encryption, and Diffie-Hellman key exchange. The result of this complicated and technical-sounding jargon? A messaging service that claims to keep your data safe.Why do we say claims? When dealing with security, you always want to leave room for scrutiny, and a few cryptography experts have criticized the system. Overall, any level of encryption is better than none, but a level of discretion should always be observed with any online connected system, even Telegram.
NEWS: Telegram supports Facetime video calls NOW!
Secure video calling is in high demand. As an alternative to Zoom, many people are using end-to-end encrypted apps such as WhatsApp, FaceTime or Signal to speak to friends and family face-to-face since coronavirus lockdowns started to take place across the world. There’s another option—secure communications app Telegram just added video calling to its feature set, available on both iOS and Android. The new feature is also super secure—like Signal and WhatsApp and unlike Zoom (yet), video calls will be end-to-end encrypted.
