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Table of Contents
- 1. Telegram How Tos
- 2. How to Import WhatsApp Chats into Telegram on iPhone
- 3. Telegram Articles
- 4. Telegram CEO Says Extortionist Manipulated Apple Into App Store Removal
- 5. Telegram Briefly Removed From App Store
- 6. Telegram Gets Native Apple Watch App
- 7. Telegram Adds New Verification Option to Cut Down on Scams
- 8. Telegram CEO Arrested in France Over Content Moderation Issues
- 9. Telegram App for Mac Gains New Power Saving Mode
- 10. Telegram Gains Real-Time Chat Translation, New Group Admin Controls, and More
- 11. Telegram Update Brings Video Transcription, Topics in Groups, and New Dark Mode
- 12. Telegram CEO Accuses Apple of Destroying Dreams and Crushing Entrepreneurs
- 13. Apple Delaying Telegram From Releasing Major App Store Update, Telegram CEO Says [Updated]
- 14. Telegram Testing New Premium Subscription
- 15. Telegram Update Adds Custom Notification Sounds and New Chat Muting Options
- 16. Telegram Messenger Gains Download Manager, New Attachment Menu, and More
- 17. Telegram Gains Better Reactions, Video Stickers, Interactive Emoji, and More
- 18. Telegram Updated With Message Reactions and Several Other Features
- 19. Latest Telegram Update Uncaps Number of Live Video Stream Viewers
- 20. Bumper Telegram Update Enables Video Calls With Up to 1,000 Viewers
- 21. Telegram Gains Group Video Calling and Screen Sharing Support
- 22. Telegram Gains New Auto-Delete Options, Expiring Invite Links, and More
- 23. Telegram Working on Tool That Lets You Import WhatsApp Chats
- 24. Videos
- 25. Guides
- 26. Upcoming
- 27. Other Stories
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Telegram How Tos
How to Import WhatsApp Chats into Telegram on iPhone
Wednesday February 3, 2021 6:33 pm PST by Tim Hardwick
Over 100 million new users joined encrypted messaging app Telegram in January 2021. The stunning growth in the platform's user base was linked to an exodus from rival chat app WhatsApp, which concerned many of its users with a confusing privacy policy update that seemed to imply that more of their data would be shared with Facebook.
WhatsApp tried to deal with the fallout by clarifying that...
Telegram Articles
Telegram CEO Says Extortionist Manipulated Apple Into App Store Removal
Tuesday August 4, 2026 1:21 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Telegram was subject to a "takedown extortionist" who planted AI-modified child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to get Apple to remove the app from the App Store, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said today. Apple removed Telegram from the App Store for about 40 minutes on Monday night after discovering CSAM, but reinstated the app after Telegram removed the content.
The attacker was a takedown...
Telegram Briefly Removed From App Store
Tuesday August 4, 2026 3:39 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store on Monday night after a review found content that violated its guidelines against child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but restored the app a short while later, according to Reuters.
Reports of the removal began circulating around 9:30 p.m. ET on Monday, with searches for Telegram on the App Store returning nothing and the app's direct...
Telegram Gets Native Apple Watch App
Tuesday June 9, 2026 2:37 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Messaging app Telegram now has a native Apple Watch app. The app supports viewing and responding to Telegram messages from the wrist.
Features like stickers, voice messages, and location information can be shared from the Apple Watch app.
Telegram had an Apple Watch app back in 2015, but it was discontinued and removed from the App Store a few years back. There have been third-party...
Telegram Adds New Verification Option to Cut Down on Scams
Thursday January 2, 2025 2:17 pm PST by Juli Clover
Telegram today announced the launch of a new feature that will allow official third-party services to assign extra verification icons to user accounts and chats. The added verification is meant to cut down on scams and reduce misinformation.
While Telegram already has a verification process for public figures and organizations, trusted third-party services will be able to provide additional...
Telegram CEO Arrested in France Over Content Moderation Issues
Monday August 26, 2024 4:56 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
Pavel Durov, the 39-year-old Russian-born billionaire founder and CEO of Telegram, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris late Saturday evening. The arrest occurred shortly after Durov arrived on a private jet from Azerbaijan and is said to be part of a joint investigation by several agencies investigating alleged failures in content moderation on the Telegram platform that may have...
Telegram App for Mac Gains New Power Saving Mode
Wednesday March 1, 2023 3:48 am PST by Tim Hardwick
Telegram Messenger this week released an update for its Mac app that adds a new Power Saving menu of options to help users save battery life when accessing the encrypted chat platform on their MacBooks.
Found in the app's settings, Power Saving Mode can be turned on with the toggle of a switch, and when enabled, the feature instantly disables a series of resource-intensive processes....
Telegram Gains Real-Time Chat Translation, New Group Admin Controls, and More
Friday February 17, 2023 3:58 am PST by Tim Hardwick
Telegram Messenger this week released a new update for iPhone and iPad that adds a new chat translation feature, network usage statistics, new emoji features, and more.
Telegram channels have become very popular with groups of various nationalities and languages, and with the arrival of Telegram v9.4.2, if you're a Premium user, it's now possible to translate entire chats in real time as you ...
Telegram Update Brings Video Transcription, Topics in Groups, and New Dark Mode
Tuesday November 8, 2022 2:18 am PST by Tim Hardwick
Telegram Messenger this week released a new update for iPhone and iPad that adds video transcription, separate topics in large groups, and other new features to the popular chat platform.
The new voice-to-text transcription tool can be activated using a new "→A" button in the bottom-right corner of a video, and is designed to let users read video messages from friends when they don't have...
Telegram CEO Accuses Apple of Destroying Dreams and Crushing Entrepreneurs
Friday October 28, 2022 8:29 am PDT by Sami Fathi
Telegram's CEO has accused Apple of destroying dreams and ruining entrepreneurship with its App Store rules, more specifically, the company's 30% commission levied on in-app purchases for developers who make over $1 million a year.
Writing on his Telegram channel, Pavel Durov said that Apple had informed the messaging platform that it would not be able to allow content creators to use...
Apple Delaying Telegram From Releasing Major App Store Update, Telegram CEO Says [Updated]
Thursday August 11, 2022 5:43 am PDT by Sami Fathi
Telegram's CEO, Pavel Durov, is lashing out against Apple over the company's "obscure" App Store review process that is delaying Telegram from releasing an update to its app that will "revolutionize how people express themselves in messaging."
In his Telegram channel, Durov says that an update to Telegram for iOS that will change how people communicate has been stuck in Apple's App Store...
Telegram Testing New Premium Subscription
Monday May 2, 2022 9:28 am PDT by Juli Clover
Popular secure messaging app Telegram is testing new monetization strategies, and hints of a new Telegram Premium subscription have shown up in the 8.7.2 beta version of the iOS app.
As noted by Android Police, the beta includes both stickers and reactions that are locked behind a paywall. Users who select these premium stickers and reactions are prompted to sign up for the Telegram Premium...
Telegram Update Adds Custom Notification Sounds and New Chat Muting Options
Tuesday April 19, 2022 2:29 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
Telegram Messenger has released a new update for iPhone and iPad that lets users set a custom sound for notifications, in addition to a number of other new features.
Following the update, custom alert tones can be created in the app from short audio files and voice messages that are under five seconds and up to 300KB in size.
Multiple custom alerts can be created and assigned to...
Telegram Messenger Gains Download Manager, New Attachment Menu, and More
Friday March 11, 2022 3:24 am PST by Tim Hardwick
Telegram Messenger has updated its iPhone and iPad app with several new features, including a new download manager, redesigned attachment menu, support for live streaming with third-party apps, and more.
Telegram users are able to send files of any type up to 2GB each and access them from any device, with no limit on cloud storage, which has made downloading files more popular on the...
Telegram Gains Better Reactions, Video Stickers, Interactive Emoji, and More
Wednesday February 2, 2022 5:35 am PST by Tim Hardwick
Telegram has updated its iPhone and iPad app with several new features, including new easy-to-make video stickers, better reactions, interactive emoji, improved navigation between chats, and other additions and improvements.
Telegram's video stickers have proven a popular feature on the chat platform, and in the latest version of the app, support has been added for stickers converted from...
Telegram Updated With Message Reactions and Several Other Features
Thursday December 30, 2021 6:52 am PST by Joe Rossignol
Telegram today announced it has updated its iPhone and iPad app with several new features, including message reactions, translation, hidden text, additional interactive emoji options, themed QR codes for users and channels, and more.
With the addition of reactions, users can now double tap on a message bubble and a small thumbs-up emoji will appear at the bottom of that message. You can...
Latest Telegram Update Uncaps Number of Live Video Stream Viewers
Wednesday September 1, 2021 4:47 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
Telegram Messenger has received a major update that expands support for live video streams, allowing streams to be watched by an unlimited number of viewers.
Version 8 of the popular messaging platform uncaps the previous live stream audience limit of 1,000 viewers for groups and channels, and includes more customization options when forwarding messages, plus a shortcut to switch between...
Bumper Telegram Update Enables Video Calls With Up to 1,000 Viewers
Saturday July 31, 2021 12:13 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
Telegram Messenger has received a major update to its video capabilities, including support for video calls with up to 1,000 viewers.
Group video calls in Telegram allow up to 30 users to stream video from both their camera and their screen, and now a maximum of 1,000 people can tune into the broadcast. Telegram says it intends to continue increasing this limit "until all humans on Earth...
Telegram Gains Group Video Calling and Screen Sharing Support
Monday June 28, 2021 5:24 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
Telegram Messenger gained some notable new features over the weekend, including the ability to turn group voice chats into video calls, support for screen sharing, and more.
First up, Telegram is touting the new group video calling feature as bringing "voice chats to a whole new level, ready for online classes, business meetings, and family gatherings."
To turn a group voice chat into a...
Telegram Gains New Auto-Delete Options, Expiring Invite Links, and More
Friday February 26, 2021 1:34 am PST by Tim Hardwick
Telegram Messenger is bringing new feature additions to its chat app, including new options for auto-delete messages, expiring invite links, and unlimited group numbers.
Like WhatsApp and Signal, auto-delete messages have been a staple Telegram feature for some time, but with the latest update, uses can enable an auto-delete timer that applies to all Telegram chats, so that messages are...
Telegram Working on Tool That Lets You Import WhatsApp Chats
Thursday January 28, 2021 4:35 am PST by Tim Hardwick
Telegram is working on a way to let users import their chat history from WhatsApp so they won't lose old conversations if they switch messaging platforms.
An update to the app briefly appeared in the App Store on Wednesday detailing the new import tool, but another update was swiftly issued that removed all mention of the tool, suggesting Telegram is still developing it.
WABetaInfo was...
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