Using email in Telegram

Telegram has updated its Privacy Policy, adding information about using an email address as an alternative authorization method.

Here are the main points:

— Since September 2022, Telegram may ask some users to specify their email address.
— Users will be able to receive login codes by email instead of SMS (with the possibility of authorization via Google or Apple).
— The email address for authorization will be stored separately from the email required to recover the two-step authentication password, and will also be used only to send you confirmation codes when logging into your account.
— The email address for logging in to the profile will be stored by Telegram until it is changed or the messenger account itself is deleted.

It is important to clarify that registration in Telegram will continue to occur only by phone number.

For more information about how the messenger uses information about your email, see paragraph 3.2 of the current Telegram Privacy Policy.