Power Saving Mode and More

Telegram for Android has been updated to version 9.5.

⚠️ Other telegram clients will receive the new version soon.

Power Saving Mode
• Users have the opportunity to disable certain animations and visual effects in the settings.
• Disabling effects will save battery power and improve performance on less powerful devices.
• The power saving mode can be set to turn on automatically when the battery charge drops below a specified value.
• In the iOS app, you can also disable background chat updates, but Telegram recommends not doing this.
• For the application on Android, the optimal settings are selected by default.
• You can switch to power saving mode or turn off autoplay, animations or effects separately in the menu Settings > Power saving.

Read Time in Small Groups
• In groups of up to 100 participants, you can now see the time when the messages were read by each of the participants.
• In addition, now you can see the time when the reactions were delivered.

Granular Playback Speed
• Now videos, podcasts, voice and video messages can be played at any speed from 0.2x to 2.5x using the slider.
• To fine-tune the speed of voice and video messages, hold the playback speed icon.
• To change the video playback speed, just click on the icon with three dots and select "Speed" from the menu that appears.

Auto-Send Invite Links
• If, when you try to invite a user, it turns out that he has forbidden it, you can immediately send him a message with an invitation link.
• To choose who can add you to groups directly, just go to Settings > Privacy > Groups & Channels.

More Updates
• Sort sticker packs by usage time.
• The ability to translate the description and the section "What can this bot do?" into different languages.
• Create a group without invited members (Android).
• Ability to mark all chats in a folder as read (iOS).
• Ability to use folders to quickly find the desired chat when forwarding messages (iOS).
• Call confirmation window (Desktop).
• View media in a separate window (Desktop).
• 10 new sets of animated emoji from Telegram artists are presented.
• Presented interactive versions of emoji, also available as reactions: 👾, 😡, 😎, 🤷‍♀️, 🤷, 🤷‍♂️.
• Developers focused on fixing more than 400 known bugs in Telegram applications for different platforms.

Article: https://telegram.org/blog/power-saving

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

#update #Android #iOS #Desktop #macOS #Unigram

these are the options

#new Power Usage

#new Read Receipt Times

#new directly share invite links to users who can't be added to groups and channels

Now the app language is written next to the language
+ icons are thinner now

#New
Slider to change video speed

#New
Dump detailed stats option in call settings in debug menu

#new Reaction timestamps

Fixes:
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/25585
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/16674
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/15146
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/20966
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/18460
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/21206
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/25546
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/18776
https://bugs.telegram.org/c/3439

Telegram X was updated to version 0.25.6.1605

Brief overview of new features and changes:
https://telegra.ph/Telegram-X-03-08

Bot API updated to version 6.6

Highlight: users can now create emoji sets that adapt to app's theme

Localized Descriptions
• Bots now support localized descriptions that are shown based on the user's language.
• Added the methods setMyDescription and setMyShortDescription to set the bot's localized description and short description.
• Added the methods getMyDescription and getMyShortDescription to obtain the bot's description or short description for a given language.

Stickers and Emoji
• Bots can now create custom emoji sticker sets with createNewStickerSet.
• Added support for adaptive custom emoji colors via the needs_repainting parameter in the createNewStickerSet method.
• Added the ability to specify search keywords for stickers added to sticker sets.
• Improved editing options for sticker sets, including changing the title, deleting a pack, editing emoji lists and more.

Visit the official website for the full changelog.

#update #BotAPI

Telegram fights account hijacking

Over the past few months, the activity of scammers trying to steal Telegram user accounts has increased significantly.

Over the past month, our readers have reported that they sometimes get kicked out of their accounts, and after re-logging in, they find that all messages sent by them in private chats in the last few hours or days are deleted for both interlocutors.

We suppose that these measures may be an attempt by the Telegram platform to combat account hijacking.

@tginfoen strongly recommend to subscribers to keep their account information up to date:
1. Do not keep accounts on SIM cards that are not accessible. If you do not have access to a SIM card with an account phone number, then you have a risk or losing access to this account at any time. Recall: Telegram allows you to change the phone number of account without losing chats and contacts.
2. Remember your cloud password or check access to the email specified to recover it.
3. If your account has been switched to authorization by e-mail then make sure that you have access to the corresponding e-mail box.
4. Use local passcode on your smartphone and especially in Telegram Desktop: it encrypts local date stored on your your PC and prevents using this data by intruders even if they steal it.

#FAQ #hijacking