Profile Photo Maker, Translating Entire Chats, Emoji Categories and More

Telegram for Android and iOS has been updated to version 9.4.
⚠️ Other Telegram clients will receive the new version soon.

🌟 Real-time message translation
• Premium users can now translate entire chats, groups and channels in real time by tapping the Translate bar at the top.
• The bar can be hidden or the languages for translation can be selected from the drop-down menu.

Profile Picture Maker
• Any stickers or animated emojis can now be easily converted into a profile picture for accounts, groups, or channels.
• Animated and custom emoji are available to everyone even without a Telegram Premium subscription.

Emoji Categories
• A search by categories has appeared in the sticker and emoji panel and in the reaction and status menu, e.g. 👍, ❤️ and 💤.
• Holding the emoji before sending allows you to see it in full size.
• Holding an animated or custom emoji also calls setting it as your status.

Network usage
• The updated "Data usage” section displays circular diagrams and detailed statistics.
• The “Data usage control” feature allows you to handle the amount of data used by Telegram.

Flexible media auto-saving settings
• You can select the types of chats where media will be automatically saved to the device gallery, and also set the maximum size of video to be downloaded automatically.
• You can add exceptions for individual chats so that only necessary photos and videos are saved.

Updated group permission section
• Group administrators can separately allow or disallow members to send 9 different types of media, including photos, voice messages and video messages.
• Now it is also possible to completely disable text messages in a group.

Annual Premium Subscription
• Now you can pay for your personal Telegram Premium subscription not just for one month, but for an entire year ahead.
• The annual rate plan is sold with a discount of up to 40%.

Chats selecting in the bots' interface
• Developers can now incorporate buttons for quick selection of groups, channels or accounts based on predetermined criteria into their bots.
• For example, this allows you to quickly add a bot to a group where the topics are enabled and current user is an administrator.
• All details for bot developers are available in the documentation and in @BotNews channel.

Sign-in with Apple and Google ID
• Users who have logged out of their accounts can easily log back in using their Apple or Google ID, without a code from an SMS.
• The password for two-step authentication is still required if it has been set.

Other Innovations
• Auto proxy switching: you can now set the waiting time before connecting to one of the active proxies if the current one stops working.
• Pausing music during audio or video message recording.
• A lightweight mode has been added to the stable version of the Android app.
• Redesigned tabs for the emoji, stickers, and GIF animations panel.
• 10 new sets of emoji have been prepared, including several hundred images specially created for profile, group or channel photos.
• Interactive versions of the emoji, also available as reactions, were introduced: 🦄, 🙊, 💊, 😘, 💘, 🙉.

Article: https://telegram.org/blog/profile-pics-emoji-translations

Android: Google Play, APK from official website or verified channel.
iOS: App Store.
Desktop: from official website or GitHub.
macOS: From App Store or Verified Channel.
Unigram for Windows 10+: Microsoft Store | Direct download | Installation instructions

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🌟 Real-Time Chat Translation

• Now, Premium users can automatically translate whole chats, groups, and channels from foreign languages by tapping the new "Translate" button at the top of the screen.

• In the dropdown menu next to the button users can choose other languages for translation or hide the button for the viewed chat.

• Non-premium users can still translate individual messages by selecting the desired message and tapping the "Translate" button.

• To enable translation of all messages in Telegram you have to go to "Language" section and turn on the "Translate entire chats" option.

• Full list of changes is available here.