📰✅ Passkeys are available to EVERYONE. 🔑 According to @tginfo, 🇷🇺 they were previously available primarily to Russians, as they had significant authorization issues. Passkey had to be added as an authorization method, as both SMS and email could be unavailable or blocked.

✔️As a reminder, this feature is only available on the following clients:
Telegram for Android 12.2.10,
Telegram for iOS 12.2.3,
Telegram Desktop 6.3.6, but only on Windows 10/11 (it supports Windows Hello).
✔️You can also choose your own password manager.

Thanks: 💌💌💌
Windows Hello Instruction: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configure-windows-hello-…

📰🔞 Ashoo, a Telegram bot for finding Russian escorts and prostitutes, decided to replicate the success of NFT gifts, which featured a collaboration with Khabib Nurmagomedov, back in (almost) late November. Since Durov's personal messages are extremely expensive, they decided to collect stars through star reactions to a post that had accumulated just over 5000 stars.

Of the several gifts, they personally own these: 6×🚀, 3×🚀, 10×🗓.

📰 Spam in user private messages has become more frequent. 🫡 This message is entirely in Chinese, and the screenshot claims that Chinese entrepreneurs are offering to rent energy for transfers on the TRON network without commission for just 0.01 TRX, while the usual transfer fee is around 20 TRX.
The spam was created via @postad, which allows you to bypass the restriction that hyperlinks (even usernames) no longer work in new chats from unknown contacts.

What should you do?
1. Restrict incoming messages, at least set them to "premium users only" or, better yet, pay for messages with stars.
2. If you receive a message, click "Block" at the top, set two checkboxes, and confirm the action.

✔️ Telegram promptly deletes these spam messages by freezing accounts, but the spammers don't give up – after appealing, they can recreate their accounts.

Information: 💌💌💌

📰 Kaspersky Lab tracked the life cycle of fraudulent communities on Telegram and found that they last an average of seven months. After that, they migrate en masse to decentralized messaging apps like Simple X. Securitylab.ru reports on this.

👮‍♂️ Experts point out that Telegram is inferior to dedicated, secure messaging apps in terms of privacy, where "paper plane" doesn't use end-to-end encryption in cloud chats, where these servers are centralized, adding that the server code is closed. Based on data from the aforementioned Russian lab, out of 800 blocked resources, the average lifespan in 2021-22 was five months, while in 2023-24, it was nine months. This doesn't mean the persecution has abated.

🏰 Cybercriminals were trying to survive longer on Telegram. For example, they switched to a private mode with requests, or published harmless messages to disguise themselves, or added disclaimers and statements about the legality of the content. None of this prevents blocks, as the option to report them remains, and Telegram has tightened its content moderation.

🛳 In 2025, the BFRepo group (9k+ subscribers) announced its move to SimpleX, and Angel Drainer decided to create its own messenger with support for crypto protocols, which they recommend Telegram users move to those who prioritize privacy. ☝️ And remember one thing: all this doesn't mean the number of cyberthreats will decrease—criminal communities are solving the problem, where Telegram is emerging from the period when it was a mainstay for cybercriminals.

📰 iOS users are receiving a pop-up asking them to update to version 12.2.4, as versions 12.2.3 and earlier will soon no longer work. 🤔 Users can choose to ignore this request and continue using older versions. If you agree, you'll be redirected to App Store.

UPD: this window will appear with every launch until you update to 12.2.4 (142,9 MB) or 12.3 (available in beta).

🤷‍♂️ The reason for this is currently unknown. Regarding compatibility, Telegram works with all iPhones running iOS 13 or later.

📰 A new "Other: Report by Report ID" complaint option has been added for EU users. 🇪🇺🚨 This complaint option has been added for all EU users due to the requirements of the EU Digital Services Act (DSA). This complaint option is intended to be SECONDARY, meaning it can be used to supplement a complaint, challenge a moderation decision, or report that illegal content is still accessible.

🛂 Also, it is intended that a complaint ID must be provided through this complaint option; otherwise, moderation will automatically reject your report. Where to obtain the Report ID is currently unknown.

✅ @monk verified his own account. He felt that third-party verification, which he hadn't shared with other messenger employees, wasn't enough to 100% prove he was Durov.

In fact, it's long been considered impossible, and even now, to verify personal profiles, even through @verifybot. You could still find accounts with regular verification for a long time, for example, the personal account of the Clash TV channel. 🎄 However, now it's not a profile, but a Christmas tree.

📰 A week ago, a new service notification from +42777 appeared in case a channel or supergroup was transferred to you. 🏣 This message includes the channel name, username, a hyperlink to the @telegramtips post, and an explanatory note. ⌨️ The most interesting feature is the inline button, which allows you to unsubscribe from the owner's post and return it to the previous owner (EVEN if you haven't fulfilled the conditions for a regular transfer of rights). In this case, the previous owner will receive another service notification about this.

⚠️ Channel Transfer Rejected: {CHANNELNAME}

You recently transferred ownership of channel {CHANNELNAME} @username to {user}.

The user has rejected the transfer, so the channel has been assigned back to you. You are the channel owner again and are responsible for its contents.

✅ This is useful for preventing a setup involving accusations of terrorism (this does happen), or if you don't want to take up unnecessary username slots, or if you're simply not ready to take responsibility for the chat.

#tip:
1. You can view all your chat ownership in TDesktop by right-clicking "My Channels" or "My Groups." You can even use the @WhatIOwnBot bot (from tginfo; API based, method not guaranteed).
2. You can see who owns a channel by opening Administrators or, better yet, Recent Activity.

Thanks: 💌💌💌

V for Vendetta’s totalitarian UK felt far-fetched 20 years ago. Now, with moves like branding all e2e encryption developers ‘hostile actors’, it feels less like fiction and more like a government action plan. The film is set in 2027 — the UK seems determined to stay on schedule.

📰 Durov in Twitter stated that London wants to bring totalitarianism to Britain, as in the 2005 fiction film. However, this tweet was later deleted for an unknown reason, but many media outlets are writing about this tweet.

🪔 Let me remind you that Telegram cloud chats do not have end-to-end encryption.

Tweet: 💌💌💌

📰 new unlimited #gifts!

🎄 — 50 ⭐️

📰 In five days, gifts on the marketplace will be available for sale 🎁 for less than 7 TON only for Telegram Stars.

🛒 It's highly likely that this will be a change to the marketplace's overall rules, as the message came from the Telegram account to the administrator @adurovleaks in Russian, along with a request for action. What will happen if these gifts aren't removed from sale is unknown.

Roman holiday 🇮🇹

-Durov and His girlfriend

Source : 💌💌💌

@NewsAndTipsNT 📰

✈️ Telegram For Android
◾️ Version: 12.2.11
◾️ Build: 6342

Directly downloadable from :

• http://telegram.org/android
• https://telegram.org/dl/android/apk
• https://t.me/TAndroidAPK

OR

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.messenger

What's New:

- Bug fix

#Stable #New #Telegram

🔄Previous Version

📰 #tip: How to listen to voice messages without marking them as played?

🎤 All voice messages have a dot indicating that no one has listened to the message. You're probably familiar with the chat preview, which allows you to read text messages, but not voice messages. However, you can listen to them even without reading all the messages. To do this:
1. Open the chat preview.
2. Click on the avatar to access the chat profile.
3. Open the "Voices" tab.
4. Open the context menu for the desired voice message and forward it to "Saved Messages."
This allows you to listen to the voice message without marking it as «read».

💡 On TDesktop, you can right-click on the desired chat to open the profile.