Telegram Tips

💼 Away Messages. Telegram Business users can set an away message to automatically reply when they are closed or on vacation.

Both greeting and away messages support text formatting, files and all media types – and can contain multiple messages.

💼 Greeting Messages. Businesses can write a greeting that is instantly sent to users that contact them for the first time – or who send a new message after a period of inactivity.

You can set your greeting to only be used for specific chats and chat categories, or to exclude certain chats.

💼 Location and Business Hours. Telegram users can convert their profile to a business page – adding the location and business hours of their company.

To add business info to your profile or create automated greetings, away messages and quick replies – go to Settings > Telegram Business.

Telegram Business lets users convert their profile to a business page and unlock extra features like:

💼 Location and Business Hours
💼 Greeting Messages
💼 Away Messages
💼 Quick Replies
💼 Folder Tags
💼 Start Page
💼 Links to Chat
💼 Chatbots

Telegram Premium subscribers are currently able to access all Business features for free.

To see the full list of features, go to Settings > Telegram Business in any app.

Group Emoji. Admins of boosted groups can set a group emoji pack – unlocking one set of emoji that all members can use in the chat.

Custom emoji are an open platform – so you can choose a set from Telegram artists, or create a unique pack just for your community.

Group Appearance Settings. Boosted groups have unique customization options – able to change the color and logo of the group's profile cover, set an emoji status or add a chat-wide wallpaper.

Admins with the 'Change Group Info' permission can access these settings from the Group's Profile > Edit > Appearance.

Stories from Groups. Admins of groups that receive enough boosts are able to post stories as the group.

For each level a group gains, it can post 1 additional story per day. Replies to a group's story are sent to the chat – sparking new conversations.

Admins with the proper permissions can tap the story icon 📖 on the group's profile or select the group in the 'Post Story As' section of the story editor.

Boosts for Groups. Groups level up by receiving boosts from members or via giveaways.

Those who boost the group get an exclusive badge and allow the group to post stories and change its appearance.

At higher levels, groups unlock features for all members to use in the chat – like custom emoji and voice transcription.

Saved in Shared Media. Every chat has a shared media section on its profile page – simply tap at the top of the chat to open it.

The 'Saved' tab contains any messages that you've forwarded to your Saved Messages from that chat.

⭐️ Tags for Saved Messages. Premium users can organize Saved Messages by adding multiple tags to use as search filters.

Tags are based on emoji, which you apply by reacting to the message.

For more description, you can give tags a name as well – simply hold down on a tag and select 'Set Name'.

View Saved Messages by Chat. The View as Chats mode in Saved Messages lets you see a list of chats from which you've forwarded messages.

Each chat contains all the messages you saved from other users, groups, and channels.

When viewing as chats, you can pin chats in any order – and the app will remember your view preference.

To change layouts, tap➕or ➕ to View as Chats or View as Messages.

⭐️ Private Message Permissions. Premium users can select who is able to send them messages – either Everyone or My Contacts and Premium Users.

When enabled, users who aren't contacts or don't have Premium can't start chats with you – but can reply if you message them first.

⭐️ One-Way Last Seen and Read Times. Users who hide their read time aren't able to see read times from other users.

Except with Telegram Premium – which allows you to hide your read time and still see the read times of users who share theirs with you.

If a user hides their read time, it is always hidden from all users, including Premium users.

Read Time in Private Chats. In 1-on-1 chats, you can see the exact time when your message was opened.

Read times have granular privacy settings, based on the settings for your Last Seen status.

To protect privacy, all read times are only visible for 7 days before being deleted.

Watching One-Time Messages. One-time voice and video messages can't be paused and can't be opened more than once.

The message will play until it finishes, or until you tap 'Close and Delete' – vanishing with a beautiful animation.

Pause and Resume Recording. While recording any voice or video message you can pause and then resume recording later – without having to start over.

To pause recording, swipe up and tap the pause button. To resume recording, tap the microphone🎤or camera 📷 icon.

Recording One-Time Messages. The view-once setting can also be used for voice and video messages – after being played, the message is automatically deleted.

To set a message as view-once, swipe up to lock recording and then tap the play-once ⏲️ icon.

Calls. Calling another user lets you talk, turn on your camera or share your screen – all protected by end-to-end encryption.

Calls are available on every platform – to call a user, simply open their profile and tap the 📞 call button.

Photo Cutouts in Stories. Photos from your gallery can be placed on top of stories to create custom scenes or memes.

For a seamless edit, you can remove the background from photos by tapping 'Cut Out'.

This feature requires iOS 17+ or Android 7+ with Google Play Services installed.

Massive Premium Gifts. The 'Gift Premium' section in Settings lets you give up to 10 users Telegram Premium in one tap.

If one of those users already has Premium, they can save the gift to activate later or send it to a friend.