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Description

Pure instant messaging — simple, fast, secure, and synced across all your devices. One of the world's top 10 most downloaded apps with over 500 million active users.
FAST: Telegram is the fastest messaging app on the market, connecting people via a unique, distributed network of data centers around the globe.
SYNCED: You can access your messages from all your phones, tablets and computers at once. Telegram apps are standalone, so you don’t need to keep your phone connected. Start typing on one device and finish the message from another. Never lose your data again.
UNLIMITED: You can send media and files, without any limits on their type and size. Your entire chat history will require no disk space on your device, and will be securely stored in the Telegram cloud for as long as you need it.
SECURE: We made it our mission to provide the best security combined with ease of use. Everything on Telegram, including chats, groups, media, etc. is encrypted using a combination of 256-bit symmetric AES encryption, 2048-bit RSA encryption, and Diffie–Hellman secure key exchange.
100% FREE & OPEN: Telegram has a fully documented and free API for developers, open source apps and verifiable builds to prove the app you download is built from the exact same source code that is published.
POWERFUL: You can create group chats with up to 200,000 members, share large videos, documents of any type (.DOCX, .MP3, .ZIP, etc.) up to 2 GB each, and even set up bots for specific tasks. Telegram is the perfect tool for hosting online communities and coordinating teamwork.
RELIABLE: Built to deliver your messages using as little data as possible, Telegram is the most reliable messaging system ever made. It works even on the weakest mobile connections.
FUN: Telegram has powerful photo and video editing tools, animated stickers and emoji, fully customizable themes to change the appearance of your app, and an open sticker/GIF platform to cater to all your expressive needs.
SIMPLE: While providing an unprecedented array of features, we take great care to keep the interface clean. Telegram is so simple you already know how to use it.
PRIVATE: We take your privacy seriously and will never give any third parties access to your data. You can delete any message you ever sent or received for both sides, at any time and without a trace. Telegram will never use your data to show you ads.
For those interested in maximum privacy, Telegram offers Secret Chats. Secret Chat messages can be programmed to self-destruct automatically from both participating devices. This way you can send all types of disappearing content — messages, photos, videos, and even files. Secret Chats use End-to-End Encryption to ensure that a message can only be read by its intended recipient.
We keep expanding the boundaries of what you can do with a messaging app. Don’t wait years for older messengers to catch up with Telegram — join the revolution today.
Apple Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

What's New in Version 9.6.6

Bug fixes, minor improvements, and more.

Seller

Name

Telegram FZ-LLC

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Information

Categories

Version

9.6.6

Size

144.1 MB

Game Center

No

VPP Device Licensing

Yes

Rating

Rated 17+ for the following:
Unrestricted Web Access

Compatibility

iOS 11.0 or later

Devices

iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)

Languages

English, Arabic, Belarusian, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek

App Store: Customer Ratings

All Versions

 4.2 (162,826 Ratings)

App Store: Customer Reviews

Use

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jkhcllvcnn
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
Good app

U r the best dear telegram

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mondalawy
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
Love u for ever ❤️

Seems like they shadow ban

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Ignatius of Florida
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
Seems like specific channels are nearly impossible for me to open
Your censorship is obvious

Updating…

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gospodbog73
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
Used to be perfect, but recently barely works. Always “updating…”, messages fail to send, media fail to load. Even though I’m on Premium! The app just can’t function anymore.

Sync contacts

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Jebreill
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
I use two Telegram accounts, but contacts are not synchronized in one of the accounts

i don’t know why but i’m not receiving the verification code

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dylanangoe
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
i deleted and reinstalled telegram and the verification call just doesn’t come through.
if this is a developer issue please fix it. i need to grt back into my account

give option to hide your stories from select people

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ppslayerrsupreme
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
add an option so that we can choose 1 specific person we don’t want to block, but hide our stories from

Endless updates over VPN

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kosmeln
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
The app says “connecting” and does nothing over Nord VPN.
It has just started after the recent update.
Please fix it sooner!

Badges

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arian0098
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
I have premium but my badge is not showing to all people .some accounts can see and some cant

I’m not

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wyubvdh
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
We will

I’m going back in a few

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ggsgg ccdg
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
We will get a little

I’m going back in a bit

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cccf ggv
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
We will get a

I’m going back in a bit

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ghcc gfvv
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
We will get a little more sleep tonight

Видео

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ОТВЕТТЕ
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
Решите уже что-то с видеоплеером, ничего не хочет загружать, а если и загружает, то очень медленно. Невозможно нормально смотреть видео

Data problem......

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lisabeth_kokins
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
My telegram is not working at all
After the update.....I can’t cannot my data to the app anymore

怎么注册

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zijie ze
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2023-07-31
Version 9.6.6
怎么注册教教我

хуйня

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хуй бляьб
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2023-07-30
Version 9.6.6
хуйня какая-то добавили почту ебланы,теперь я не могу зайти на свой аккаунт

Delete a msg

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renaanderson
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2023-07-30
Version 9.6.6
This is my favorite app, BUT lately on a few chats we’re unable to delete our message! It’s very frustrating sometimes. I was hoping the update would correct that but, no.. 😞 for example, on one chat we post items at quite a discount for locals (online garage sale’ing), but once we get rid of the items we’re supposed to delete them to keep the check clean. This makes far more work for the admin’s which aren’t always available.

Telegram is Fading

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Richard Wilston
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2023-07-30
Version 9.6.6
I created an account in telegram just because I quarreled with my wife she blocked me immediately , what I saw was that my telegram account was banned , I really don’t feel really safe using Telegram anymore , it’s turning a useless app

Something off

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Btmpp146
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2023-07-30
Version 9.6.6
Something seems like There might be some guys that see viewing me and kniw were i live

Было лучше, надеюсь, больше не столкнусь с этим приложением

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7kept1c
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2023-07-30
Version 9.6.6
Худшее приложение. Начиная с того, что сеть пропадает каждый день и вечное «соединение», заканчивая навящевой бесполезной подпиской, которая никому не нужна. Ужасное приложение, поддержка никогда не отвечает, ужасное отношение к пользователю

проблемы

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fghfhxkgxjgc
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2023-07-30
Version 9.6.6
появились проблемы со входом((

Suspended

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anonymous$$999
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2023-07-30
Version 9.6.6
I was suspended for no reason I messaged the spam bot only to get no response and i can not message in group that I ought to message on over 3 months now 😡

What happened?

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Haxxis
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2023-07-30
Version 9.6.6
This app has been a wonderful app for years but as of version 9.6.4 and up, it will not connect while using my VPN. It continues to say updating 🔄 and does nothing else. This makes the entire app useless.

Zero for my job to

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elisarempel
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2023-07-30
Version 9.6.6
Can I get your home address and phone

Paying for telegram?

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thylegend
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2023-07-29
Version 9.6.6
I had telegram for a while, had to uninstall it and download it and now that i want to install it again, its charging me when it was free why is y'all charging me now

Loved Telegram Messenger until now!

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CarolineOnline
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2023-07-29
Version 9.6.6
I have loved this app and would given it 5 stars 10 days ago but not now! It has been stuck updating that long and I CAN NOT use it! My repeated requests for help have been ignored!

The first thing you did

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hugh.obrien09
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2023-07-29
Version 9.6.6
The only way I could ever

::

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mahdiemohseni
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2023-07-29
Version 9.6.6
Lately I have been experiencing this issue that im about to tell ya, I don’t know if I can call this bug , but it’s bothering me enough to made me write a Review. Here is the thing when I try to text ppl at comment section of a specific channel I will always get the notification of replies from replies section but when I click on it to see the actual comment and reply back it says “massage doesn’t exist “ and the message disappears.
I tried many freaking times but this bug looks so serious and these updates don’t work at all so I would appreciate if u guys can fix this problem

You have no option to report a scammer

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Aspan13
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2023-07-29
Version 9.6.6
Other than that, great app with a slight free-speech censorship. Still better than dumpsters like fb and insta

So many bugs

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Friiiiw
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2023-07-29
Version 9.6.6
Its great app but i don’t know why its have so many bugs for me, i changed my phone and i thought its going be better but now i have more bugs, thank you telegram :/

I’m not a big man in

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cornell.gibson
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2023-07-29
Version 9.6.6
Can’t get enough people for

Avid user, great app

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Von Goon
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2023-07-28
Version 9.6.6
I love telegram but I have had some issues sending basic media files like a group of three pictures and a small video. Not sure why it’s not letting me send them. 4 stars because everything else is quick and well thought out. Simple text messaging app that works great.

Notifications not working

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Review837363627474
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2023-07-28
Version 9.6.6
Notifications do not work.
I’ve checked all my settings and I get no notification when I get a message.

Darn

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ReggieRLE
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2023-07-28
Version 9.6.6
I have been using this app for over two years. Loved it. Now, it won’t hook into my Wi-Fi since I got back from my trip to upstate New York. The alert says to check my internet connection and try again. I’m really disappointed. Any clues as to why? I called spectrum and we went over everything to make sure all was good. Everything else works.

Add Goal Subscriber to the channels

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Rawand King Fire
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2023-07-28
Version 9.6.6
Hello telegram team, I’m the usual user of telegram, I want you add goal section to the channel about subscriber count in future updates.
Thanks!

Несправедливость

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РОВЛВДВЛ
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2023-07-28
Version 9.6.6
Почему у меня уже ГОД стоят ограничения, хотя я ничего не делал. АНТИ-СПАС СИСТЕМА ограничила мой аккаунт без основания

Will not load

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kcay94
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2023-07-28
Version 9.6.6
App will not load

Убили приложением

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faqtuook vcdtfgv
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2023-07-28
Version 9.6.6
Здравствуйте, не ожидал такого поворота теперь телеграмм не безопасная соц сеть
базы данных теперь все сливается, пожалуй скачаю ватсап

Not happy😿

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kweks0001
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2023-07-28
Version 9.6.6
I’ve been trying to create an account but is not working, sent code a couple of times but nothing came, don’t know if this is for new users alone but pls you guys should work on this. I even tried sending an email to the developers but haven’t gotten a feedback yet

Connection Errors

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Synnh
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2023-07-28
Version 9.6.6
Been using this app for a while now. Hardly any issues except for the ocasional connection loss. But the past week no video or audio calls will connect whatsoever. I am either on 5G or wifi and nothing. Something we can get fixed asap?

Low security, hacked by Russians

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AugusteSolis
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2023-07-27
Version 9.6.6
Today I discovered I’m supposedly logged in on 2 Russian computers and friended and texted a bunch of Russian people I never frienddd or texted. Low security app, don’t trust

Falta los estados

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luisggoncalvez
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2023-07-27
Version 9.6.6
Me encanta la app pero me gustaría quelas historias al estilo instagram/whatsapp/ Snapchat Sean gratis para hacerla mi app de mensajería definitiva.

Agradecimiento

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kikocuellar
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2023-07-27
Version 9.6.6
Les doy las gracias por encontrarme y darme la oportunidad de ser partícipe en este conjunto de personas, gracias y muy buenas noches a todos!!!!!!!

Scroll through Chat History Issues

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Yoshi#11
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2023-07-27
Version 9.6.6
Mainly use this app for group chats and my biggest issues in going back through the chat history. I get barely 50 messages back and it automatically resets to the very end (last message sent). No matter how slow for it to load everything, or fast to get through it, it sends me right back. Sometimes I get lucky and get like a month and half back randomly, but not what I was looking for. So the app does keep the chat history, but somehow you can’t look through it. What’s the point of having it id you can’t even go back to it.

Was working great until this week

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jammers67
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2023-07-27
Version 9.6.6
Haven’t had a problem with it but just contacted their app support- I noticed that new content wasn’t uploading- constant spinning status bar so I uninstalled it.. now I can’t even input my mobile number- it says to check my internet connection which is fine.. hopefully will get resolved soon.. fixed!! I had to turn off my VPN, install it, then turn my VPN back on… would of been nice to get a prompt as to why it wouldn’t work

Telegram problems

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riahh15
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2023-07-27
Version 9.6.6
Having trouble logging into my telegram . keep saying i have no internet connection but i’m connected to the wifi

Latest 2 updates NOT WORKING

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Mommabear23
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2023-07-27
Version 9.6.6
App opens, then little circle spins interminably and it doesn’t load conversations. Was ok, except for censorship

Uzb

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Uzb6667777888
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2023-07-27
Version 9.6.6
uzbekistan

Recent upgrade made my Telegram not work on my iPad

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Bradl33y
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2023-07-27
Version 9.6.6
Please help. I updated to current version, app wouldn’t work. I restarted my iPad and app was spooling. Then I deleted the Telegram app and downloaded it again and now says my internet isn’t working. My internet is working.

Got banned for nothing

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samartinell
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2023-07-20
Version 9.6.3
While it is one of the best messenger and I really loved it, my phone got banned for no reason 4 days ago, I instantly wrote an email with my problem to the “help” link telegram provided and no reply for 4 days literally. I know they should unblock me but I’m really worried about my data, if it will be recovered or anything like that. It’s not fun experience and they didn’t even send me a text when they banned me with a reason or something and what to do, what to expect or anything like that.
For your understanding, I wasn’t in a group chats with people that I don’t know for over a year, I haven’t share anything that could lead to a ban, I just texted to my friends, shared videos and pictures and of course used “saved messages” feature for something that really important to me, and most passwords or whatsoever is only in telegram and nowhere else cause I couldn’t even imagine telegram could ban me. It’s an awful experience, but without it, it would be 5/5. But even if they unban me and restore all messages, I won’t store anything like I did before cause I can loose it so easily again

Glitchy. No privacy.

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Mreeves336
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2023-07-19
Version 9.6.3
I’m trying to upload a small clip to my profile picture and it’s not working, it’s been loading for 30 minutes and this is my third attempt. I am only in one group chat and which I own. Sometimes I can pin things, sometimes I can’t. Sometimes I can see who liked my message, sometimes I can’t. The unpin option has been broken forever. When you go through and do a bunch at once, none of them work. I declined to give the app access to my contacts as I joined this to be private. However to my extreme dismay as soon as you sign up, if other people have your phone number in their contacts, they are notified of your account immediately. Do you know how embarrassing that is??????? It completely defeats the purpose of this app. I deleted Snapchat for the same exact reason just for telegram to go do that. The app has a lot of weird bugs. For example, once the fourth person likes your pictures sometimes, you can no longer long press the reaction and see who reacted in what way. All you can do is see who saw the message. Sometimes this happens, sometimes it doesn’t. A bug

Suggest to make recovery or deactivate the account more in time!

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pajhdlh
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2023-07-19
Version 9.6.3
Though Telegram is ease to use, the system didn’t remind or force to link the recovery email or phone while users sign-up / login in. This make this application easily to hack by someone. Today my tele account get hack and I can’t recover or deactivate my account in-time. This make the hackers have more time to access my contact list and make a free chat with my friends for SWINDLE and try to hack their accounts.
It’s my negligence make this case. But for others applications the recovery process is much easier than Telegram. Hope developer get serious on this security problems and make new users taking more awareness on linking recovery email or phone… Make a user tips guidances or something for new users please . I kindly request to make recovery process more efficient please ( if the user only link with mobile number, it’s really really need many steps and times to recover their account JUST LIKE ME!).

My account has been hacked 🤬

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Up_Side_Long
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2023-05-27
Version 9.6.3
If I could give more negative review than just one star - I would. My account has been hacked by someone from Hong Kong (and I have never been to Hong Kong!). Multiple attempts to contact Telegram - via emails, twitter messages, support on the website, even app (at those rare moments when hackers would not logged me out) - are ignored, for the last five days nothing, crickets. I can’t delete malicious devices from my account even though I have two way verification set up. Those who hacked my account even sent messages to some of my contacts. When I tried to report the bug issue (and to me this obviously a security bug) - special bug bot on Telegram site sees those malicious devices as part of my account! I can’t use my account - during certain hours hackers just simply log me out and too many attempts to login result in inability to login for 24 hours…🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ absolutely unprofessional company - it’s 21st century and you can’t have halfway decent customer support?!

Great app!

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Arsalan Rad
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2023-05-18
Version 9.6.3
I love it. I may sound like someone who’s working in Telegram but I don’t. I am just a user for several years since its first release and know the app quite well.
The best app in its category. Have lots of great features that other apps can only dream about. In every aspect it is great, privacy, features and...
Telegram is kind of like a world, you can create public and private groups and channels to share content. Sometimes I spend hours in different channels, there are lots of great news, recreational and… channels.
The share feature is also a breeze. unlike whatsapp you don't need to download a file and then upload it for sharing (yeah! this is why whatsapp is so slow on sharing), Telegram just share the content with the name of its original uploader, and you can easily click and checkout the channel (if it was shared from a channel) or contact the user.
The other unique feature is, it is a free cloud space for users. you can upload your photos, videos and other documents to your personal “saved messages” and they never get deleted (unlike whatsapp).
Telegram has lots of other features which I can’t just type it here, you need to check it out, but I genuinely believe it is the best app in its category.

Groups not loading!

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Olоlо
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2023-05-13
Version 9.6.3
1.) iPad - just a bunch of bugs, like beta. Some previous another guy In review already described them here in reviews previously, and they same for me too. 2.) And now another big bug on any device - for another account added, when I switch between accounts - it doesn’t update content from public groups then.. no new messages for days.. have to kill telegram and run it again, so it finally reloads groups. 3.) Calling is a nightmare! Incoming call rings on ALL my devices: iPhone, iPad and MacBook. But when I answer on one any device, start talking even, call in progress - other 2 devices still ringing and ringing! 4) just open public group and it’s not updating- endless loadings. Even if I joined public group - it will not update latest message! Only have to restart telegram to see some new messages.
Groups not loading it contents have to kill restart telegram to see groups new content.

Support very bad my account hacked

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Ng weng
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2023-04-25
Version 9.6.1
I am extremely disappointed to inform everyone that this chat application is poorly designed. When I used this application, my account was hacked, and my personal information and account security were seriously threatened. Even when I tried to contact customer service for help, their response was very slow and almost no substantive help was provided. In the end, I had to give up using this application and completely delete all my personal data.
I am very concerned about my personal information and account security, and this application clearly does not have enough security measures to prevent hacking and other security issues. I suggest that everyone should not download this application to protect your personal information and account security.
In summary, the antivirus function of this application is poorly designed, which caused my account to be hacked, and the customer service department's response was also very slow and ineffective. I hope the development team of this application can take proactive measures to solve this problem, as well as improve its security and customer service quality.

Automatic Translation Not Working with Paid Subscription

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Jsc Media
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2023-04-13
Version 9.5.4
In my opinion, Telegram is an excellent application with a useful feature that allows for automatic message translation with a paid subscription. I was intrigued and decided to purchase it for myself, as well as gift it to a friend. However, to my disappointment, the feature does not seem to work for either of us. Although I write in English and my friend writes in Russian, our messages are not automatically translated and we still have to manually translate them. Similarly, when communicating with someone who writes in Ukrainian, my English messages to them are translated, but their messages to me are not.
I only use the desktop version of Telegram when I need to save photos to my computer, and I have noticed that the desktop and web versions do translate messages properly.
Furthermore, it appears that support for Telegram is lacking, as it is supposedly provided by volunteers and I have not received any response to my requests for assistance. While I understand that volunteers may not be able to respond promptly, it would be beneficial if Telegram could improve their customer support.
Overall, I hope that Telegram takes note of my review and works on fixing the issue with the automatic message translation feature.

Love the app but, needs improvements

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Doublecup jones
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2023-03-24
Version 9.5.3
So this app is definitely a good app there’s many features I enjoy like having a private group for menu’s etc. The main issue I’ve ran into is the fact that once you get over 100 members you’re no longer able to see the list of people that view your messages or updates to your group. There’s an option to hide your list on the settings once you reach 100 members but, there’s no point in having that option if they automatically disappear after you get 101 members or more. I would definitely love to rate this app 5 stars but, that’s my main issue I would love to see how my audience is interacting by seeing the viewers indefinitely regardless of how many members there is in the group. Thank you telegram support if you fix this issue until then my review will stay at 4 stars.

needs UX improvements on ios app

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BRINKwerks
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2023-01-10
gripes using ios app (fwiw none of these issues occur using desktop Opera browser plugin), mainly cursor navigation and editing issues. specifically: 1. in dark mode, cursor remains black and is hard to see, 2. is misaligned below the baseline, so line placement is unclear (could be fallout from os text zoom sizing), 3. when scroll to edit insert point and tap, it invariably jumps back to prior cursor location, forcing user to scroll again and tap again, and then the cursor moves to desired location. clunky and inefficient. 4. emoji menu - A. emoji placement should be editable or based on usage, and/or B. like Signal, they appear as a block, not a strip. C. the idea of scrolling right to get to any emoji, but especially one commonly used, is not a feature but a bug. otherwise, a noticeably faster and better UX (love message editability), i generally recommend it to others. also please add watch app. and when pressing for context menus, need to change it so it doesn’t so rapidly select the option in the 2nd level menu where the 1st press happened to be - huge UX design issue.

Potential scam, employee scam

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stevejeffreythethird
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2022-12-28
Hey folks, be careful who you talk to on this app. I was a victim of potential employment scam/fraud. An entity pretended to be a part of a corporation only to be a lonely hacker who wanted my information. Had a check bounced and had it reported, but they could never track it. They were never able to find the source of the hack/scam. And they made themselves seem very believable. Even a fabricated interview process that felt completely real. It’s that bad, folks. Before you go on here, think about the places you applied to and what information you gave out. I know for me I only gave name address and number, but nothing more. But that is still enough. They can access your information at the click of a button. It’s that bad. Be safe folks. I’m still keeping an eye out for hackers and I’m content with my real job that doesn’t scam people. But please. For the love of god. Don’t download this app. They can’t help you if you do get hacked. They didn’t help me. And that’s proof enough.

Good app. But turn to bad app now

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Doctor dolapo
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2022-12-11
I’ve been using my telegram account for more than 5 years ago and Telgram are banning people account without warning. I lost everything I keep on my Telgram and all the important information between me and my business partner all the necessary conversation was lost I try to unbanned my account and there is no where to contact support please Telgram should do something about that
Telegram is the most texting all I love most in all app I’ve been using in my life but I hate it so much now because of what it’s happening my Telegram account was banned without any warning and it was logged out of my phone I have some secret conversations I keep there and I lost everything there are so many things I keep I couldn’t get it back I try to contact telegram support if my number can be unbanned to regain back my account and everything I have in it but I got no response. I think something must be done about that please thank you

Be careful of child pornography!

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MrOBrian
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2022-10-08
This app is not moderated at all, which I would think goes against Apple’s policies, but the result is that you will be randomly added to chats that have content you probably don’t want to see. Be sure to go in to your settings and change it so that you can’t be added to channels by everyone. I have no idea why that’s the default setting. Before I found that setting I had been added to some horrible channels that should not exist. This app is a breeding ground for conspiracy theorists and human traffickers, so be very, very careful about which channels you join.
Low rating not only because of how detrimental apps like this are to society, but also because of how broken it often is. If you’re in a channel where people share lots of pictures or videos, you’ll often have to force quit the app because it will get stuck when trying to load the media. The search function is also frustrating. If there are several results, interacting with anything takes you out of search and you have to start over if you want to look at the next thing.

8.8.2 still trashes constantly

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Mattstar69
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2022-08-28
The app still struggles to connect stay connected and crashes when messages are forwarded. Profile pictures are mostly missing and emoji don't load they’re just little question marks. I guess a stable build is reserved for premium users. The app once worked seamlessly with an occasional hiccup but ever since the introduction of the “download manager” features and those features that have been introduced to help content creators to monetize their channels but in reality just gave people who have little power in the real world to become gatekeepers to content they didn’t even create or pay for. It’s funny to hear the creator of Telegram on his high horse when the app that originally touted as always being free to now barely working & creating more ways for trolls to exploit people unless you wish to pay for premium. I can deal with the gate keepers and shameless grabs for money if the app works well but it doesn’t and it’s not like I have an old obsolete phone I have an iPhone 12 ProMax for god sakes yet the app works like it’s on a jail broken iPhone 3G

it’s my favorite app and i recommend it to everyone; one complaint tho…

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girlwithLion
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2022-08-22
✩ edit: the gift subscription button is not working for me! i hope it’s fixed soon!! edit 2: i force closed the app and now it’s working! ✩ YEEHAW!!!! THEY ADDED GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS!!! I AM SO PSYCHED!!! i’ve been dying to gift my cousin a premium subscription and now i can!!! THANK YOU TELEGRAM!! I LOVE YOU!!! i sent a support request but i’m also putting it here because i’m really hoping the dev team will see it: i want to be a premium user (and i am) in order to support the development of this app because it is my all-time favorite app, but i do not like that the star next to my name announces it to all the world to see. i would love an option to be an incognito supporter. thanks. that is my only complaint about telegram. prior to this, my only complaint was the lack of custom notification sounds but they JUST recently implemented that. i love literally everything about this app. i jumped to support them because they deserve it. maybe the star will help inspire others to support them too, but i am a quiet, reserved, introverted person and to me, it just feels pretentious. so i do hope they will let us decide whether or not it displays. regardless, you guys have made a stellar app and i am a die-hard fan. ♡

accessibility failure for the blind

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eric oyen
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2022-08-14
this app is incredibly difficult to use on the iPhone using the screen reader. In fact, the search function doesn’t even work correctly. I tried to search for a Telegram group, and even though the group exists (having verified it via the website), the app won’t find it. Trying to get to the group manually results of my being locked in one of the secondary screens with no way out! And if you think that’s bad, the telegram app for OS X presents a completely inaccessible Contant pain that is blank so far as the screen reader is concerned. No way to interact with it at all!
So, if you’re blind, or otherwise print disabled, this app is not for you. Oh, and I actually tried to contact the developer via their webpage and, guess what? There is no contact us link, the support page is so messy that I can’t even get to the right section. This company is a freaking joke. My honest assessment, they don’t care if you’re blind. They just want users and if you’re not part of the “in the crowd“, you’re locked out.

Notifications Drive Me Insane

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AMILkita
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2022-03-15
The app is quite good but I gave it 3 stars because it’s notifications feature is horrific. I absolutely loathe apps that don’t respect my notifications preferences and this one in particular doesn’t like to suppress the very annoying ones that come in every single time someone in my contacts list joins Telegram. I really don’t care to know who joins the service from my contacts every time it occurs. Turning this notification off does not from stoping them from continuing to arrive in-app, and the only way to stop this is to turn off Notifications in my phone’s global settings, but doing so will make one forego notifications that I do care about, such as from new messages. It’s baffling they choose to force users have to deal with this, it’s the one thing that’s making me consider leaving the app altogether.

Scammed

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Paws on my heart
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2022-01-20
I received a 2nd email regarding an interview for a job I applied to. I am a recovering stroke victim, so I haven’t been able to work in almost 6 years, but recently decided to take a leap and find a remote job, as I can’t drive at the moment.
This afternoon I received an email, in regards to a job I applied to. I quickly forwarded to onto my husband and he pointed out right away that it was sent from someone with a “Gmail” address and not a company email, which was the first red flag. It goes onto say I would be interviewing with this guy and said the virtual interview would take place at this platform. Ok, I have never heard of such place. The like had his name spelled without an “s”, which I found to be another Red Flag.
My husband texted me back a screenshot of a scam done on behalf of this company (using this company name) and on this platform.
I tried reporting this persons account, but was unsuccessful, as apparently this platform is run by volunteers.
I just want to see this persons account shut down. I tried searching this person on LinkedIn and couldn’t find any matches. I tried searching without the “s” and still no searches.
I contacted the company and the lady told me they are not hiring for remote jobs, only on-site and apologized. She said no one by the names I gave her worked for the company.
I immediately deleted this app and will be more careful in the near further.

4th Update App Review

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Jotsan Martinez
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2022-01-10
The customizable colors, dark theme, sleek, fluid messaging app, private, and secure. Destructible messages are a plus. I like the spoiler option it’s pretty cool, along with many other features.
Previously Telegram was lacking video calls, Group Video Calls, FaceID. I’ve noticed they added it on which is great!
End to End encryption should be standard. Why go through the hassle of doing secret chats? The option should be the other way around “unsecret chats”
Please add Pin Numbers. Some people dont like to share phone numbers. Having the option for Pin number to add users on Telegram is a Marvelous idea.
More business features are needed like having the capability to pay and receive payments within the app. Having an online store.
Add a “transparent theme” for themes and colors that be awesome!
One thing needs FIXING. The app has been updated. Now it’s complicated and confusing to change the color themes. When applying the colors and theme it does not update it.
Someone sent me a voice note. It took 12 hours to receive it. The voice note stayed at a downloading state the whole time. I have 5G service.
Please update with new features suggested and fixes. Then we can agree it deserves a 5 Star rating. Im sticking to 4 stars until then.

Amazing app, the best! just one thing

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❤️💜BunBunzCat💜❤️
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2021-10-28
I rlly like telegram. Its the best messaging app in my opinion. Has everything that i need in a messaging app, secure ,safe, easy and fast and very amazing in general! Has so many options for everything. And is totally worth loading!!! I been using it for the past 5 years and its totally my number one app for everything! But only one complain i have for the newest update: when i edit a photo on the app , like drawing on it or just changing the appearance of the pic, the app crushes and goes to my home screen, its been happening ever since i updated telegram and i just want you guys to fix that, other than that the app is amazing and works perfectly fine! Thanks for making the best app ever!!!

One BIG flaw

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Both platforms
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2021-09-04
I love this app, have used it every day for the last year. It is powerful and elegant. The one big drawback is the SEARCH. How do you search for Groups and Channels? By searching for a keyword. That’s it. Not good! Everyone says this is the achilles heal, and it’s weird that the issue has never been resolved. Here’s a suggestion for the developer. Add a feature of searching for Groups/Channels by allowing the owner to place their G/C into CATEGORIES (such as “health”, “food”, etc) then everything search related, falling into those categories, is displayed by title. Keep the Keyword searches, just add this capability. There are groups on Telegram that were formed specifically to allow owners to ADVERTISE their group, in order to grow, because the search feature is so inadequate. Please address this issue. And thanks for a great app. 👍🏻

Almost perfect

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Eng, J
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2021-07-24
My S.O. and I have been looking for the perfect secure video chatting platform for a while. We were pleasantly surprised that Telegram finally started implementing video chatting. It is very buggy at the moment, but Telegram is definitely on the right track and has everything that we are looking for. We use the group video call feature to share screens and audio, and it’s very easy to seamlessly switch devices without having to disrupt the call. The iOS app seems more buggy than desktop as it overheats and freezes up my phone during long calls. Other bugs include recursive screen-in-screens during screen sharing, hearing your own voice when sharing audio, and suddenly not hearing the other person. It also would be great to have these features in the individual voice chats as well. Overall, we’re very excited for these features and the quick updates.

Awesome App

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Farid Alkorashy - فريد القرشي
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2021-07-16
It’s really an awesome app. More developed, practical, helpful and simple. I believe it will be more powerful and helpful for those who have wide range businesses and need to reply to their clients with same instructions for repeated question by providing Telegram with “Quick Replies” service. Quick Replies can have a table with replies and we can call the table inside any chat by starting our reply with a symbol such as “/“ to bring the list of replies we have already to choose one quickly.
Also, it will be powerful if you add “Auto Reply Message”. Auto Reply Message will be sent to those clients who text us for the first time. This message can contain information about our business and some general instructions to help the once who text us for the first time.
Thank you.

Need imediate help

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Pesare Shojae
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2021-07-08
Hi telegram is one of the best communication apps out there but the ownership of channels and groups is a pain in the neck really, i have bought a channel from an admin and she claimed that she owns the channel i had no idea about owner stuff and that you can transfer the ownership of channels until it was late, she by mistake made someone admin with her other account just when i thought she had left the channel with her both accounts when i demanded an answer she refused stubbornly to do so, so i did a research and found out that iam just an admin despite paying huge amount of cash and now she refuses to co operate but can get back at any time and kick me from moy own chhannel i wrote to telegram support saying i have all the vidence that i paid money to this guy and chat records are there too but they didnt answered back 😞😔 it seems that there is no hope for me...

Decent app, but has some problems.

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_UnknownDude_
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2021-04-14
There’s a couple privacy settings that aren’t provided that probably should be. For starters you can’t add a decoy phone number which essentially negates any purpose of having the app in the first place. Secondly, even if you don’t give Telegram access to your contacts, if someone on your contacts starts using Telegram they will automatically be added to the contacts screen in the app as well as prompt a conversation with them in the chats screen, this is especially bad if you’re, let’s say trying to use the app to contact someone who you can’t contact through discord anymore and you’re also trying to hide a certain aspect of your life from family members like an aunt who just so happens to start using that while you have your account completely exposing the part of your life you want hidden.

Scammer’s Paradise

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ButterflyCrescent92
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2021-04-03
Positives: Telegram had some positive features. You can start a secret chat with someone. There’s freedom of speech in that app and you can say politically incorrect things without getting banned. You can post content which are deemed offensive. That’s why I like Telegram. I do miss the app, though. Unfortunately, I can’t go back, not after what happened to me.
Negatives: I was catfished by a scammer. The problem with Telegram is that it doesn’t have a report feature. I reported the scammer via using Yahoo mail, Gmail, and even messaged notoscam. Sadly, Telegram wouldn’t do anything about it. I had to delete my account, and deleted the app itself because of how persistent and dangerous the scammer is. The scammer is using a photo of an actual doctor and is pretending to be him. I suspect it’s an African scammer, but I’ll never know. The only thing I had done was to block the scammer on Telegram, but that wasn’t enough.

Good app for communication, but no good for investments

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Albinoni528
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2021-02-22
***Disclaimer***
This is only describing the various situations where forex group chats exist on the service. Nothing against the actual service itself, only the Forex groups on the app
***Disclaimer***
So the app is wonderful in terms of communication, and a good competitor to Whatsapp (another wonderful messaging service). My only beef is the fact that I was the idiot (last October) to download the app due to being suckered by a rando online about a bitcoin forex. I was unaware of such financial lingo, assuming that I would get my return profit in 48 hours.
Biggest mistake
If people recommend you to various places that offer a return profit via forex, DO NOT EXPECT MONEY BACK IMMEDIATELY. You’ll only lose your money due to the highly volatile nature of not only Bitcoin, but also Forex itself is essentially a bigger gamble due to various international markets operating around the clock. Whether it be through Facebook or any other social media accounts, you cannot be suckered by such things. It’s a pandemic and the last thing one should want is to lose money.
It’s precious and you should not let your emotions control the wallet. Ones intellect and wise choices dictates money. So if you’re looking to save money, do the research, be financially literate, and save the money.
Nothing against this app once again, but the groups who promise for get rich quick schemes.

In desperate need of Group Video Chat

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Mr.. Fisher
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2021-02-18
Hey, I’ve been using Telegram for over 10+ years and I haven’t had any problems with this application whatsoever everything works great but, there is one issue that I have with this application and that is the inability to create a group video chat that is why I can only give telegram 3 stars. I honestly believe that is a crucial disadvantage to this application I say that because, I have family and friends that live all over the world whether it be in different states or different countries and we all have telegram on our phones. That being said we would like to I’ll be able to talk in a video group chat with each other which we are unable to because this application doesn’t provide that option. So therefore since telegram doesn’t provide a video group chat option we have to download another application to be able to do that Task. Which in my opinion is extremely ridiculous because you should be able to perform the test on this app as well. Instead of making people waste valuable space on their phones by download in other apps to perform the test where y’all can provide that ability on your app so we don’t have to download other apps to perform that and we could save space on our Devices.

Telegram is awesome.

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Hyunkyo
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2021-01-29
I truly love it, I wanted to try a new app for texting and this is perfect. It has great privacy features, you can customize it in a lot of ways, and it works perfectly. I only have a small suggestion that may not be as important, but it would be a great improvement.
I imported a chat from another app, and as soon as I saw hundreds of messages arriving, I regretted it. I want to delete them, but Telegram does not allow to select many messages really fast to delete them, you have to tap them one by one to select them. It would be great if it allowed users to select multiple messages faster, or if it had an option to delete imported messages in an specific chat just in case the user regrets it.
But overall, a really great app, I recommend it.

So far so good 😎

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Vip The Great
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2021-01-21
I am on a mission to get as many people away from the tentacles of Zuckerboss as possible. Have managed to get a few dozens of people to switch from whatsflop to this better platform. The only complain I get is that this does not have status, which apparently social media junkies can’t live without 🤦🏻‍♂️ Another complain is that the app freezes or acts slow in low connection spots some thing those users of whatsflop supposedly didn’t deal with it. Hopefully these things will be addressed and improved/fixed. I know this is still evolving and growing so I am hopeful it would become the dominant messaging platform and I will contribute to that by getting people to jump ship. I only hope we don’t get sold out like all these other money hungry corps out there. Keep up the good work guys, I wish you great success in the years to come 👍🏼👍🏼

Please I’m a big fan

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j0semat0s
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2021-01-13
Look I’m a big fan of this app I used like a few years ago and now it’s at a whole different state and it’s so much better then WhatsApp and now with their new update about privacy most the people I know don’t know about technology stuff and change logs but I do so I’ve gotten a handful of people to switch and a few friends and family and they’ve all said they love this app and it’s true it’s awesome but they won’t delete WhatsApp because it’s missing, stories or a status a way to let others know about you including myself I now have 2 messaging devices I use telegram as my main and WhatsApp I use it for school and status if you could add this it would mean a lot to me I’ve heard you just hit 500 mil🥳 and I feel good to have been a part of that I know it may take a while for you too implement this feature but it would be the death of WhatsApp for all the people I’ve invited

Better than Whatsapp

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sj-2020
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2020-11-18
It is safe and secure with the option of end-to-end encrypted messaging, easier and more user friendly than whatsapp. The new version has video call as well. I call my friends around the world for free. Channels are great and recently added options to leave comments and pin more than one messages are great features and it comes with a desktop version to use everything on your computer as well.
Overall, I prefer telegram to whatsapp.
Note to new users: don’t delete your messages to release storage on your phone, instead, learn to clear your telegram cache.
To the developers team: I think including sliding bar on the voice messages would be good. Also an option to lock the voice recorder on the desktop version similar to the mobile. Please keep expanding video calls to do meetings in groups. And finally, it would be great to add personal folders to saved messages, I use telegram as my favorite quick note app as well! because it is easy and has a user friendly format plus desktop so it can also be used as a personal note taking app and if you add folder options to saved messages, it will make a great tool! Thanks.

HEADACHE

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hey its fiammetta
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2020-10-16
I logged out from one of my accounts and since then This app doesn’t work. All it shows is a white page. I tried restarting my phone but it didn’t help and no I don’t wanna redownload it because that will erase all of my data. The most annoying thing about an app would be this kind of losing data and you know what? This is not the first time. Sometimes with the new updates I had this problem again. In my country I can say that we pay A LOT for using internet and I’m just sick and tired of wasting it on redownloading things that I didn’t even wanted to be erased in the first place. [ and also more importantly it’s just so frustrating and time consuming ]
Since it’s impossible to avoid all this kind of mistakes, in the future updates please add “mass downloading” which can offer us redownloading all the latest data we downloaded on our other devices or lost all together.

Awesome except for two points

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Raana_b
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2020-08-13
Telegram has been a great application which i have been using for more than 6 years non-stop! But lately i have switched to ios and i am short on storage. Whenever i clean the cache, the number in the app goes down but in my settings the numbers will not change that much. So every time i am supposed to delete the app and re-download it so i will lose all my secret chats. Also being able to delete messages of the other person for both sides?! This is not new but it is so bad. I mean imagine you are talking to an online shop, you send the receipt but they will delete it later and deny that you have paid! I hope you make changes and solve these problems. I think these are the only downsides that i can mention for this wonderful app. Thank you.

Suggestion for improvement

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r4r2r4
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2020-08-11
When I scroll the files/links shared with someone, and this person sends me a message, I do not receive the notification, and the message is considered as read like being within the chat. (which I actually am, but in another tab)
I checked that on Windows, Linux and different Apple devices. It is not the issue on tablets, as the display is separated, neither on desktops, if user widens the window so that the chat and files/links are present concurrently. However on cellphone devices only chat or files/links tab can be displayed at a time.
I guess it will be better to notify the user whenever they do not actually see the message with a topside pop-up and show the label “unread messages” within the chat when user is back from files/links tab.

Great.... But

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Monet Kay Love
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2020-07-10
I love telegram, a friend put me onto the app. It's nice for dating when you don't want to give out your number or socials to stay discreet. You can only voice call no video call.. I don't mind though, you can send videos, pictures and voice messages. But they took away timed photos/videos. That was my FAVORITE feature, it's like Snapchat if I want to send a video or picture I could time it... But I can't anymore, please bring feature back. It seems like every single update they take away a great feature, I shouldn’t have to download something on my computer to sign into a new phone , I know it makes you guys think you’re being secure but it’s making it more complicated.... bout ready to say a few this app and go to WhatsApp , not everyone has a computer they can concurrently download on just to sign in on a new phone . Like come on do better

What WhatsApp wishes it was

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Jac565
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2020-06-28
Pretty much everything WhatsApp has and more. Not to mention, actually good security—unlike WhatsApp. End to end encryption where the keys are kept on your device. If you do some research, Telegram’s security has been publicly audited by real world events.
I work in cyber sec and use Telegram as my default messenger for everything. Whether it’s sending large files (seriously, I’ve sent files over a gigabyte) to joining a variety of channels/groups. I honestly believe Telegram could be the next IRC chat (I get all my security and tech news and updates from telegram channels faster than news sites or rss).
I’ve been slowly converting my friends and family to it. Simply the best and the features just keep coming. Thank you Telegram developers! You’ve truly revolutionized decentralized messaging.

Deleted messages

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Mr Bcubed
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2020-05-30
The genuine telegram app deletes text messages from both sides but the third party apps keeps those messages and that is not good because it invades the peoples privacy status and sometimes they have the whole conversation sent to others even if it was confidential, for example if you saved a wrong number and then wrote a text or sent a photo then realized that its the wrong account and deleted it but yet if that person is using the “ third party apps” then he will still have those texts, photos, and user information and for me that is a major flaw in your agreement to them. I wish you can fix that problem or get rid of those apps and save other peoples sanity.
Overall I love the Genuine app its so slick easy and so much comfortable to use I have been using it for the past 3 & 1/2 years and it never let me down. Keep up the good work and please check your agreements with the third party apps.
Thanks in advance

Not fully accessible using voice Over

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short she wolf
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2020-03-10
I am visually impaired, and I use Voice Over to navigate through the various features on my IPhone 8. I am using the most current version of IOS 13. I can only use Voice Over when listening to a single contact (I can activate the play button). But when I try to activate the play button when chatting within a group, Voice Over does not work. Instead, I have to turn Voice Over off and activate play like a user who is sighted. I fortunately have enough vision to do this, but a blind or visually impaired person with less or no vision would not be able to perform the work around I have found. I have tried to report this several times, and I have received no feedback at all. I find that to be very discouraging. I know that some blind useds are experiencing the same problem while others are not, so it is not an across the board problem. However, the issue still needs to be invchstigated.

“Raise to listen” is horrible, and circle videos force auto play

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ColinHuth
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2020-02-21
Telegram does a lot of things right, but its total lack of customization of usability settings isn’t one of them.
“Raise to listen“ is forced on. Any random time something comes close to your phone, it decides you’ve raised it to your head and starts a voice recording. There’s a secret debug menu (not mentioned anywhere) accessed by tapping “settings” 10 times, but even turning it off there doesn’t fix it.
This breaks when more since circle videos autoplay — a conversation with them means you’ll constantly be going back to watch someone’s that you missed, and then *your* video after will play. Possibly at double their volume. And you’ll have to stop it manually, every single time.
But what’s worse is that if any circle video is paused, and there’s play/pause on the top bar, then raise to listen will override and play *no matter what*. Even if you have it forced off in the secret debug menu.
For every hour of circle video conversation, this means manually stopping autoplay and having to hit the little X literally hundreds of times just to make your own recordings not play loudly at you, and your phone’s sensor not delete what you were recording because a cat got too close to your phone and it decided it was your ear.
All because Telegram really, *really* doesn’t like giving you options as to how you use the app.

Latest version introduces a really annoying bug

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ZoomZoomNH
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2020-02-13
The Feb. 3 update still includes the really annoying bug. To test the new update, I typed "This is a test of Telegram's new updated app." Here is what Telegram got: "Thisi atTelegram's nbew pda app." Clearly, this is still completely unusable. If anything, the number of dropped characters is worse than it was originally.
Original review:
Updating to the latest version introduced a really bad bug that causes keyboard input to get corrupted. When I type on my Bluetooth keyboard now, Telegram acts like I also typed random backspaces every few characters, completely messing up the words I type, and inducing auto-correct to change many of the messed-up words to something completely different. Please fix this right away!
I've installed every update since the bug was introduced, and none of them have addressed the problem! I just updated again today (Jan. 9), and the problem is as bad as ever. I have to type very slowly and constantly correct Telegram's mistakes, making it nearly unusable.

Please don’t alert me on who has joined Telegram

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Specialist 101
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2020-01-01
I have had Telegram for a few years. I installed it because some contact mentioned that they use is for communication just like many other of global contacts who use various different Apps for communication and I download them to make it easy for my contact to reach me. I have about 11 such apps and Telegram is the only App that will intermittently big me with notifications that someone in my contact list has joined Telegram and other silly alerts that have noting to go with me receiving a message from a contact. I just received 11 notifications back to back that 11 of my contacts joined Telegram. First of all it’s not a coincidence that 11 different people who have nothing in common other than being in my contact list join Telegram at the very same second. So obviously, this is a cheap way of Telegram trying to engage with me. I seriously don’t give a crap who is in or not. If they are and they need to reach me then and only then I’d like to be alerted. Kindly fix your unnecessary alerts or give me the option of what alerts I’d like to get and I’ll change my ratings for you.

Video calling

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hatxus
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2019-11-19
In this day and age video calling is a must with every app such as Telegram, and lack of it unnecessarily opens the door for the competition. Despite my desire to solely use Telegram to connect with friends & family all over the world, I’m having to use other apps, because of the lack of this feature in this app, and I’m sure this is the case for most of its other users.
I’d give this app 4 stars if it had the video calling feature, and 5 if it wasn’t for some other malfunctions I come across every now and then, such as, all of a sudden losing all my communications with a contact from the beginning till a random date, or altogether till the present! This has happened to me several times with different contacts, so I highly recommend backing your communications up if they’re important to you.
I really hope, and strongly suggest that the developers add the video calling feature ASAP.
Thank you for all your efforts for providing the public with a great communication tool! 🙏🌹

Mask, stickers, and chatrooms don’t work

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Pinkrose1422
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2019-09-30
I love the idea of this app and I love that it has polls, rules set, bots, and other things but my app crashes 100% of the time when ever I go into settings to check out the “Masks”. It just kicks me out the app than when I look for stickers there’s only a few compared to what others claim they have (I’m only seeing a little when others have and see a lot more options than me) and I’m unable to find Chatrooms. The only option I have is to open messages to chat with someone but I want to go to a chatroom. Not chat with someone. Someone said I’m fully missing the icon (a magnify glass) and only have the box with a pencil which is for starting a new message with someone. Can this be fixed soon? I just download the app three days ago. So there isn’t any updates I’m neglecting to update when it says the last update was two week ago. Someone mind helping?

Bug

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Amirali_KP
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2019-09-27
Hi telegram developers, I noticed a problem after your last update, it's about when i download a song and try to listening to it after 2 or 3 times in repeat mode music stops playing ,but in lock screen i have it ,and shows that music is playing but nothing played and music player is terminated , then i have to reopen the telegram and play it again and again by the way when you are in the app everything works properly, this problem shows itself when you’re going to lockscreen or open another app when telegram is in background, telegram last 2 updates are more reliable than this version and it’s really annoying specially behind the wheel or when i put on my handsfree, i hope developers fix this bug to make it the best social app like the past . (iPhone 7plus)
Best regards

Need Video calling feature, faster passcode lock & a bug fix

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Zakir Hosen
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2019-09-20
I am enjoying telegram as my main chatting app as it’s secure faster & fun to use! But unfortunately it has only voice calling feature which makes me to use another apps for that feature only! I cordially expect that developer will add that asap!
It’s passcode locking feature in order to provide best security to its user, but apps lock doesn’t work immediately! Which should be must! The minimum time is 1 minutes! It should be locked within a fraction of second as some other apps do! As long as we have face unlocking feature so it will not bother us!
Lastly, I have facing an unexpected issue sometimes! I’m not sure where I tap but when it happens telegram stop functioning & start glitching non stop glitching! It needs the apps to launch again!
So please make the apps more lovely by adding video calling features and make the passcode lock more quicker & fix the bug! Thanks for reading with patience!

Telegram rocks, but Apple censors

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thrashedknuckes
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2019-07-05
I like app, a lot. I can group chat with friends, or get lost in the wilds with foreigners and weirdos, so a plus in my book
The only bad I can say with this app, lies not with its developers, but with Apple and the AppStore. I’ll find channels with discourse of all varying opinions. Something I find refreshing. But I’ll then go to revisit, only be prompted that the channel is blocked due to violations of AppStore guidelines. There is no violation. It’s Apple using its corporate mass to silence opinions it seems as bad.
Because of this, I will NEVER use or buy another Apple product. Once this phone dies, that’s it. Anything but an Apple. ANY other phone. A product and company, that keeps me from viewing content that I sought out myself, should never even make it to market

Telegram Review

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Faris Nabeel
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2019-06-01
I enjoy using the app much more than any other social media messaging platform. The ability to create group chats, call people, and customizable features in addition to a UI that is seamless with other devices, and doesn't stutter is a treat.
But, in some areas telegram falls short due to lack of video messaging, the traffic seems to be lower than other platforms, and searching for groups isn't as easy as some may like it to be. Regardless, a video chat feature similar to instagrams live mode would be perfect for the group chats. If possible maybe even allowing features thats on discord to be on the app, better bots would be a plus that telegram makes themselves rather than relying on other people bots. Most bots seem to not work as well as the competition.
Overall its a great 1 v 1 app, but apps such as WhatsApp or instagrams video-calling is superior, and discords bots and chat customization is superior. Telegram is the perfect middle ground that could do better.

New bugs in version 5

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fordguy1997
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2018-12-19
Telegram was almost bug free, but version 5 introduced a host of new bugs that were previously fixed. 1) "Last seen" time is no longer accurate. It takes a few minutes to update. Often it tells me that I was last seen 30 minutes ago, when I'm online! 2) the search feature is broken: it has the glitch that only shows 100 results maximum. Previously it used to tell me how many messages each person sent to the chat, which was in the tens of thousands. Now each person has allegedly only sent 100 messages. 3) The same old message notification keeps being pushed to my Notification Center after I've cleared it from there multiple times. This happens for days at a time for the same notification.
EDIT 12/19: Developer mentioned the update, well issue 1 was not fixed with the recent update that was pushed out. However, I can report that issue 2 has been fixed. Still noticing issue 3, and will email about it. Thanks

Media autosave is broken since iOS 12 release and calls dropping every few min

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MehoCode
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2018-10-24
Hey dev team, the auto save feature for all media (images specifically) isn’t working since I updated to publicly available ios 12. It worked perfectly on all betas of iOS 12 and stable versions of previous iOS but now it became very frustrating as I expected to see all images received to be in photo gallery but aren’t being saved for some reason.
I tried reinstalling both Telegram and iOS, tested telegram on 3 different iPhones but nothing seem to be helpful in this case.
Media auto save is enabled in settings and app has access to photos so no permission issues as far as I understand.
I also sent a message to app support few weeks ago and never head back from them so this is the last step before I start looking for alternatives.
Another big issue is calls quality/reliability. Every time I call someone after few min I hear beeps that indicate lost/poor network, then I can hear other party again but they can’t hear me or call just drops after 15-20 seconds. The longer the call (multiple calls) is the more often it breaks and I have to call that person again.
I’m on latest iOS 12.0.1 and iPhone XS Max 256.
Hoping to see these two fixed in the next update.
Once this and dropping calls is fixed Telegram will be again my favorite messenger. Until then - 2 star review.