Earlier today, Telegram announced a new update to its chat app via a blog post. The company stated that this new update brings tools to prevent others from saving content in groups and channels, the ability to delete messages from specific dates, new ways to manage your connected devices, an option to post anonymously in public groups on behalf of your channel and more. So let’s take a deeper look at these new features.

Telegram Update

Protected Content in Groups and Channels

With this update, Telegram helps creators protect the content they publish and ensure that it is available only for their intended audience.

Group and Channel owners who want to keep their content members-only can restrict message forwarding from their chat, preventing screenshots and limiting the ability to save media from posts.

Delete Messages by Date

Telegram users can delete any messages from a conversation at any time, and with this update, it’s been made even more convenient as you can now clear chat history from a specific day or date range in any one-on-one chat.

You can use this new feature by tapping on the date bar that pops up as you scroll through the chat, which will open the calendar. From there, you can choose which days you want to clear.

Manage Connected Devices

Telegram lets you use your account on all your devices simultaneously, and the devices menu helps you control where your account is logged in. The company has added a new button to quickly link a desktop device via QR code scanning and a setting to log out inactive devices after some time automatically

Additionally, the update enables even more control over your linked devices as you can now tap any device in the list to view more information and toggle whether it can accept calls or new Secret Chats.

Anonymous Posting in Public Groups

Public Groups and Channel Comments allow for discussions of any topic in massive communities with thousands of members. Now, you can represent your channel in these group discussions with the new ability to ‘appear as a channel’ when sending messages in these chats.

To access this functionality, you can tap the profile picture next to the message bar and choose one of your channels – the messages you send after that will appear with the name and photo of the channel instead of your personal account.

In addition to these features, many more have come to Telegram in this update, including login via phone call, new global chat themes for Android, and Live Text Recognition in multiple languages for iOS 13+ (via).

The inclusion of these new features makes Telegram even more appealing and leaves much to be desired from the dominant chat service, WhatsApp, which is sorely lacking in the variety of privacy and convenience features.

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