Live Location Alerts. Tap the notification button on the Live Location map to get notified when one of your friends is close.

Edit and Send Back Media. Instantly add drawings, text and stickers to sent media without saving it to your gallery.

Video messages. Tap once on the voice message button to switch to video mode. Swipe up to lock recording (also works for voice messages).

Video messages play in Picture-in-Picture mode so you can keep moving around the app while watching them.

Customizable Themes. Change the look of your app to your exact preferences – whether that be an animated background with your favorite colors, or a clean and simple dark theme.

Go to Settings > Chat Settings on Android or Appearance on iOS to change and tune your theme, with color options for your background and message bubbles, as well as several patterns.

All themes are shareable, so you can send your friends a link to your custom creations. For even more customization, you can set different themes for individual chats.

Quizzes and Educational Tests. Using @QuizBot, users can quickly build feature-rich study materials for any subject. Set a timer for questions to help prepare for exams and add explanations to give context and inform users of what they missed.

To build free online educational tools, we launched quiz.directory, a platform with high-quality quizzes made by Telegram users who received cash prizes for their contributions.

Read more about Quizzes

Creating Polls. Create a poll in your group or channel – simply choose the “Poll” option in the attachment menu.

There are multiple setting options such as visible votes and allowing more than one answer from each user.

Channel Stats. Owners of channels with more than 50 subscribers have access to detailed statistics and informative graphics about subscriber growth and post performance.

Stats are also available for large groups.

Group Stats. Owners of large groups with over 500 members can view beautiful, detailed graphs about its activity and growth.

Stats are also available for channels.

Multiple accounts: preview chat list. You can press and hold on another connected account in Settings for a sneak peek of its chats list.

Message Bubble Corners. Change how round your message bubbles are from Settings > Chat Settings on Android or Settings > Appearance on iOS.

Quick Night Mode Switch. On Android, open the side menu and tap the 🌙/☀️ icon to switch between your Day and Night Themes. On iOS, go to Settings > Appearance > Night Mode.

You can also set your themes to switch automatically on a schedule, with local sunrise/sunset times, or following your system settings.

Chat Backgrounds. You can use one of your photos or search the web for wallpapers, add effects and then share your backgrounds with friends via links.

Telegram backgrounds support motion and blur effects. You can also set any color as your background, apply a pattern and tweak its intensity.

Multi-sharing from Other Apps. When using the share extension, press and hold to select multiple recipients – and even add a comment in case your savage subtweet needs some context.

Anonymous Forwarding. You can restrict who can forward your messages. When this setting is enabled, your forwarded messages will no longer lead back to your account — they'll just display an unclickable name in the “from” field. This way people you chat with will have no verifiable proof you ever sent them anything.

Available in Settings > Privacy & Security > Forwarded messages.

Bulk Actions. Long press on a chat to open a menu that lets you select multiple chats and then pin, mute, archive or delete them. Tap ⋮ for even more options, like mark as read or add to folder.

On iOS you can do the same by tapping the Edit button in the top left corner of your chat list.

Badge Counter Settings. By default, badges show how many unread messages you have, but can be changed to not include channels or count only unread chats.

Live Location. Share your live location to let contacts or group members follow you on your journey.

When multiple group members share their live location, they all appear on the same map. From the map, you can set an alert that will notify you when your friends are close.

Live location is only shared for as long as you choose, and only in the chats you send it to. You can see in which chats your live location is still active from the chat list and can stop sharing it at any time.

GIF Panel. Featuring a Trending section and emoji-based tabs, quickly find a GIF to match the moment with a simple search and scroll.

GIFs you’ve recently sent appear in their own tab for easy access, and you can long press on your favorites to save them for future use.

Search Results as a List. The Search function allows you to easily jump between messages containing a keyword – or sent by a particular person, or even from a certain day. Tap the number in the bottom bar to open list view and see all the results on one page.

Search Filters. To quickly find specific photos, videos or documents, tap on the tabs in Global Search.

This lets you refine search results by keyword, source, media type and time period.

Push-to-Talk Shortcuts. Set a preferred key to toggle your microphone in Telegram Desktop or Telegram for macOS.