10 Exciting New Features Coming to Telegram: Including Anonymous Story Viewing
Telegram has recently rolled out several new updates that bring a bunch of new features to enhance user privacy. From viewing stories anonymously for premium users to adding their birthday to their profile, the new features in the Telegram app aim to improve the overall platform experience of the 900 million monthly active users. Users are also getting the ability to expand customization options for profiles and channels.
Platform-wise, these new updates give Telegram users more control over their profiles, interactions and communications across channels and groups, Media reported. So, without further ado, let’s take a detailed look at the new features added to the platform by Telegram.
Channels: A new ‘Channels’ tab has been added to Telegram’s search interface that shows users the channels they follow and recommends other channels with related content to make content discovery easier.
My Profile: Users can view their profile and edit their information in the ‘My Profile’ section in Settings. Users can also pin up to three stories to the top of their profile to highlight important moments or achievements.
Collectables on your profile: Channel owners can now add their channels to their profile, providing a full preview of the most recent posts above their bio and allowing visitors to access their content with one touch. In addition, owners of collectible usernames can link them to their Telegram accounts or channels, while providing information about the collectible and its value.
Birthday: Telegram now lets users add their birthday to their profile. Contacts will be greeted with animated confetti and balloons if they visit the profile on the user’s birthday, a birthday banner will appear in the chat list when it’s someone else’s birthday.
Mass moderation for groups: By selecting multiple messages for moderation actions and limiting user permissions without immediately banning, group administrators can perform mass moderation. Recent actions are more intensive, comparable actions are clustered together and highlight better for search terms.
Improved Recent Actions: Channel admins can control the types and maximum number of reactions each post can receive, keeping things organized. Premium users get the option to hide ads to support channel owners by viewing.
Share location indefinitely: Users can share their live location with people or groups indefinitely, allowing others to track their journey and set notifications when they arrive. Telegram users can also regulate notifications for replies to their messages and stories using the reaction notification settings.
Profile pictures in forwarded messages: Forwarded messages now include the profile picture of the user from whom they were forwarded, making the conversation more recognizable. Premium users can add custom and animated emojis to polls for more fun and creativity in interactions.
View Stories Anonymously: Premium users can initiate stealth mode to view Stories anonymously via the Story menu or by pressing and holding a story in their feed. This mode hides their views for a short period of time.
Swipe to next topic: Users in groups with topics enabled can swipe to go to the next unread topic, making it easy to stay updated on different conversations. Moreover, Telegram’s desktop software supports Instant View for websites, allowing fast and seamless page loading with embedded media.
