Top Features of Telegram You Must Know

 

Top Features of Telegram You Must Know 

 

Hello everyone I have said it before and I will say it again telegram messenger is the best. I also personally use this app.  It has some amazing features than WhatsApp

The interface is quite different from WhatsApp and obviously those lots and lots of features kind of get unnoticed in that UI of telegram that's why today I am going to tell you about some unnoticed features of telegram every user should know about

 

• Chat folders

We have chat folders which is a super cool and easy way to organize your chats it allows you to categorize your chats into different labels to do so just open the hamburger menu and move to settings folders here tap on create a new folder and give a name like personal, work, fun, unread etc. after that just add the chats that you would like to appear in this folder and that's it

 

• Edit sent messages

Okay so we all hate it when we are sending a long message and we make type well thankfully telegram gives you the option to edit your sent messages as well unlike twitter all you have to do is select the message and tap on the edit icon at the top and you can easily edit the message now just remember that it will show you an edited label once you've made the changes but I think that's a fair trade off

 

• Silent messages

Speaking of messages telegram also offers a new feature that's called silent messages which basically allows you to send a message to anyone of your contacts without giving them a notification like the phone on their end won't blink or vibrate or any sort of thing this comes in really handy if you're trying to contact someone who you know is going to be busy you know in a meeting or whether he or she is studying and you don't want to disturb them but you still want to pass on some kind of information so yeah that's what this feature comes in super handy to do so all you have to do is type out your message and then tap and hold the send button here choose send without sound and you're done.

 

• Schedule messages

Now another great thing about telegram is that you can even schedule messages trust me I have used this feature countless number of times to just wish people happy birthday at midnight without actually being up to schedule a text type out your message and then tap and hold on the send button and then tap on schedule message now just pick the date and time and the message will be sent at your preferred time.

 

• Quick Search

Telegram actually allows you to easily search for YouTube videos and gifs right inside the app without having you to actually switch to YouTube or any other gif provider all I need to do is type @YouTube followed by my search query and the list will pop up hey you can even use the search for searching gifs as well by just typing @gif followed by your search once you find what you like just tap on it and you can easily share it with your contacts

 

• Selectable Text

Now another feature I honestly love about telegram is that it also allows you the ability to select a part of a message now this comes in really handy when a single message contains a lot of details and you just need to copy selected portion of that message to do so just tap and hold on a message to select it first and then again tap and hold to select your part of the message and it's done

 

• Uncompressed Media

My favorite reason why I keep using telegram over WhatsApp is the fact that I can easily share media files without having to worry about compression of any sort you know photos videos and whatnot can be shared on telegram without their size being distorted like WhatsApp now in order to do that just select your media and tap on the three dot menu after that just tap on send without compression and that's it

• Private Lock

Okay so this next feature is helpful for both but primarily most helpful for iOS users see android devices usually come with third party or even first party app lockers but on iOS there is no app locking facility available you just have a passcode for your device and that's it thankfully telegram has an inbuilt secret passcode for basically locking out your chats to lock a chat just go to settings privacy and security then tap on passcode lock and enable it once you create a passcode and enable it you will be able to lock and unlock your chats by tapping on the lock icon at the top right of the app that way you can let someone use your phone without having to fear that they'll access your private chats.

• Secret charts

Taking this one step closer is secret chats now what secret charts does is that while usual charts are end-to-end encrypted secret charts are user to user encrypted the chats are never stored on telegram servers and they are periodically deleted by its own to start a secret chart you can either tap on the option in the hamburger menu and select a contact to start the chat alternatively you can go to an existing chat tab on the top bar for the user's information and scroll down to find the start secret chat option once you tap on the option the other person will have to accept your invitation to initiate the secret chat and that's it

 

• Theme

One of my biggest complaints with WhatsApp has been sorted on telegram which is the ability for theming and not just predefined themes telegram offers you full freedom to customize your app the way you want it to be to create your own theme just go to settings chat settings theme and then tap on create a new theme here add a custom name of your theme and then proceed on to customize each and every element of the chat as per your liking and color preference it's so cool right.

 

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This is why I prefer Telegram, which is your personal favourite messenger. Please let us know in the comments section.