Telegram now has over 700 million monthly active users. Today we’re launching ⭐ Telegram Premium – a subscription that lets users support Telegram’s continued development and receive access to exclusive features. All existing features remain free.

#premium

🔥 UPDATES

• Telegram 8.8 for Android & iOS

🆕 700 Million Users and Telegram Premium.
https://telegram.org/blog/700-million-and-premium

New Premium Features
• Double Limits
• 4 GB Upload Size
• Faster Download Speed
• Voice-to-Text Conversion
• No Ads
• Unique Reactions
• Premium Stickers
• Advanced Chat Management
• Profile Badge
• Animated Profile Pictures
• Telegram App Icon

New Free Features
• Join Requests for Public Groups
• Who Can Send Messages in Discussion Groups
• Verification Badges in Chats
• Improved Chat Previews on Android
• Automatic Saving to Gallery on Android
• Improved Video Chapters on Android
• Improved External Sharing on iOS
• Improved support for ProMotion displays (Smooth 120 FPS animations on all new iPads and iPhones)
• Animated Profile Picture Creator on macOS

Better Bots
• Include a photo or video in the "What can this bot do?" section of your bot.
• Bots that are integrated into the attachment menu can be programmed to work in groups and channels.

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👥 @TelegramAndroidTalk
👥 @TelegramiOSTalk
👥 @TelegramDesktopTalk
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2022-06-19 @Telegram #Android #iOS

🔥 New version for Unigram 8.8

What's new:
700 MILLION USERS AND TELEGRAM PREMIUM

Telegram now has over 700 million active users. To celebrate, we're launching Telegram Premium. This subscription helps support Telegram and gives you access to exclusive additional features. All existing Telegram features remain free for everyone.

NEW PREMIUM FEATURES

Premium: 4 GB Uploads
• Send media and files each up to 4 GB in size.

Premium: Faster Downloads
• Download media and files at the fastest possible speed, with no limits.

Premium: Doubled Limits
• Follow up to 1000 channels.
• Connect 4 accounts in any app.
• Organize your chats into 20 folders, holding 200 chats each.
• Pin 10 chats in your main list.
• Reserve up to 20 public t.me links.
• Save 400 favorite GIFs and 10 favorite stickers.
• Write a longer bio for your profile and include links.
• Include longer captions for photos and videos.

Premium: Voice-to-Text
• Get a new button next to any voice message to generate a transcript of its audio.

Premium: Unique Reactions and Stickers
• React with even more emoji, including :clown: and :hearteyes:
• Send unique stickers with additional effects, updated monthly.

Premium: Chat Management
• Set a default chat folder or enable tools to auto-archive and hide new chats.

Premium: Badges and Animated Profile Pictures
• Subscribers have a badge next to their name, showing they help support Telegram.
• Show off your profile video that will be animated for everyone in chats and the chat list.

Premium: No Ads
• Sponsored Messages that are sometimes shown in public channels will no longer appear.

To subscribe and get access to these features, go to Settings > Telegram Premium.

NEW FREE FEATURES

This update also includes many changes for all users – just like every future update will.

Join Requests for Public Groups
• Enable join requests for your public groups – no invite links required.
• Users who open the group will see an 'Apply to Join Group' button.
• Once approved by an admin, users will be able to participate in the chat.

Verification Badges in Chats
• Verified groups and channels now also show their badge at the top of the chat.

Better Bots
• Include a photo or video in the "What can this bot do?" section of your bot.
• Bots that are integrated into the attachment menu can be programmed to work in groups and channels.

Microsoft Store | Direct download | Read more

⭐️ Telegram Premium: 4 GB Upload Size

Increased upload size from 2000 MB to 4000 MB per document, unlimited storage overall.

= 4000*1024*1024 bytes
= 4,194,304,000 bytes
= 4,000 MB
= 3.90 GB

#premium

Bot API 6.1

Telegram Premium
• To support 4GB files uploaded by premium accounts, file_size in most media classes can no longer be stored in a signed 32-bit integer type.
• Bots can now distinguish premium Users and Stickers with the new respective fields is_premium and premium_animation.

Web Apps
• Added several methods and fields to the class WebApp to handle API version, additional colors, haptic feedback and more.
• Added the events backButtonClicked, settingsButtonClicked and invoiceClosed.
• Updated ThemeParams, MainButton and WebAppInitData with new fields and methods.

Groups, Payments and Attachment Menu
• Bots can now process join requests created without an invite link – they will still receive a chat_join_request update.
• HTTP links for invoices can be generated with the new createInvoiceLink method.
• Bots can now detect when a user added them to their attachment menu via the new added_to_attachment_menu field. Integrated bots can now also be used in groups, supergroups and channels.

• Check that your bot's webhook was set by you with the new secret_token parameter.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#june-20-2022

Warning: Only HTTPS links are now allowed in login_url.

⚒ The source code of Telegram for Android and iOS have been updated to 8.8.x

@Telegram #Android #iOS #source #reproducibleBuilds

UPDATES
🆕 Telegram 8.8 for macOS
🆕 Telegram Desktop 4.0 for Windows, Linux, macOS

• 700 Million Users and Telegram Premium
• Telegram Desktop Settings > Advanced > Experimental adds an option to open chats in separate windows.
• Animated Profile Picture Creator on macOS

2022-06-21 @Telegram #tdesktop #macOS

📰 Based on Durov's post, if 2.5-3% of 700 MAU sign up for Telegram Premium, it will cover Telegram's costs, it's about US$70-100 millions per month.

Thank you for subscribing to Telegram Premium! Join the @Premium channel for updates about the features you get for helping to support Telegram – including a list of the first premium stickers.

Telegram WebK was updated to version 1.5

1️⃣ Introducing support for Multiple Tabs – a first for Telegram Web Apps – customizing how you browse Telegram to increase comfort and productivity.

• Open several tabs or browser windows to view multiple chats or channels simultaneously.
• Organize your Telegram workflow on multiple monitors by moving tabs to different screens.
• Use ⌘/Ctrl + click or middle-click on any conversation in your chat list to open it in a separate tab.

All messages and content are seamlessly synced across the tabs. To use multiple tabs on Safari, kindly consider switching to another browser for the best experience. Due to Safari’s technical limitations, the WebK app can still only be used there in a single tab.

2️⃣ WebK gets even more stylish, adding:

• Animated placeholders when loading the chat list.
• Scrolling profile pictures in groups that move up and down with their messages.
• Menu redesigns with beautiful new blur effects.
• Colored reply previews that match the color of your chat partners' names.

This update also includes several bug fixes, removing issues with:
- Incorrect unread values
- Visual errors in placeholders
- Failing to mark messages as read
- Performance drops when returning to previous chats.
- and many more 🛠

Unigram 8.8 comes with a shiny new interface, designed by Telegram, to perfectly match Windows 11 design language.

UPDATES
🔂 Telegram 8.8.3 for Android
🔂 Telegram 8.8.1 for iOS
🔂 Telegram Desktop 4.0.2 for Windows, Linux, macOS

• Bug fixes and other minor improvements
• 700 Million Users and Telegram Premium

@Telegram #Android #iOS #TDesktop

UPDATES
🔂 Telegram 8.8.5 for Android
🔂 Telegram 8.8.2 for iOS
🔂 Telegram 8.8.1 for macOS

• Bug fixes and other minor improvements
• 700 Million Users and Telegram Premium

@Telegram #Android #iOS #macOS

🆕 Telegram watermark on the screenshot of notch iPhone's statusbar

@Telegram #iOS v8.8.2

Telegram Web Z was updated to version 1.49

👏 Harder
• Telegram Premium. By subscribing, users unlock doubled limits, 4 GB file uploads, faster downloads, exclusive stickers and reactions, improved chat management – and a whole lot more.
• Native trackpad gestures in the Media Viewer. Swipe left or right to move through media, swipe up or down to exit.
• Improved polls that support retracting votes and closing the poll – plus a confetti effect.

🤩 Better
• Various layout and performance improvements.
• Improved payment form validation.
• Use the hotkey ⌘+, to access app Settings on macOS.
• See a helpful info screen when JavaScript support is disabled.

💪 Stronger
• Call panel properly disappears after answering on another device.
• Fixed unexpected message deleting when using search in the forwarding menu.
• Fixed unnecessary up-scaling when uploading small images.
• Archived chats do not appear in the ‘Forward to’ list.
• Fixed loading loop when disabling reactions in group management.
• Various fixes in the text formatting menu.

@webztalks

🔥 UPDATES

• Telegram 8.9 for Android, iOS, macOS
• Telegram Desktop 4.1 for Windows, Linux, macOS

🆕 Telegram Emoji Platform, Custom Animated Emoji Packs, Gifting Telegram Premium, and More
https://telegram.org/blog/custom-emoji/

• Premium: Custom Animated Emoji
• Interactive Custom Emoji
• Premium: Privacy Settings for Voice Messages
• Gifting Telegram Premium
• New Sticker, GIF and Emoji Panel on iOS
• More Interactive Emoji

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👥 @TelegramAndroidTalk
👥 @TelegramiOSTalk
👥 @TelegramDesktopTalk
👥 @TelegramMacOSTalk
Beta
👥 @tgiostests
👥 @tgandroidtests
👥 @macswift
👥 @tgbetachat

2022-08-12 @Telegram #Android #iOS #macOS #tdesktop

🔥 New version for Unigram 8.9

What's new:
ANIMATED EMOJI IN MESSAGES, NEW STICKER PANEL, PRIVACY SETTINGS FOR VOICE MESSAGES, AND GIFTING TELEGRAM PREMIUM

New Sticker Panel
• Switch between sticker, emoji and GIF tabs to quickly find what you're looking for.
• Enjoy a more vibrant design with semi-transparency and improved scrolling performance on older devices.
• When typing a message, the sticker button turns into an emoji button that opens the emoji panel.

Premium: Custom Emoji Packs
• Add animated emoji from 10 new custom packs – with countless more coming.
• Get animated emoji suggestions from your packs when you enter any static emoji.
• Press and hold on a message containing emoji to see which packs were used.
• Create your own custom emoji packs for Premium subscribers.
• All Telegram users can see emoji from any pack — and try them out for free in the Saved Messages chat.

Premium: Privacy Settings for Voice Messages
• Control who can send or forward you voice messages in Settings > Privacy and Security with Telegram Premium.
• Create exceptions to add individual users or groups of users.

Gifting Telegram Premium
• Send a prepaid Premium subscription to any user from their profile page.
• Choose from a 3, 6 or 12 month duration – at a discounted price.

Microsoft Store | Direct download | Read more

Bot API 6.2

Custom Emoji
• Bots can identify custom emoji sent by Telegram Premium users via the new type "custom_emoji" and field custom_emoji_id added to the MessageEntity class.
• Added the method getCustomEmojiStickers to obtain information about specific emoji.
• Added the fields type and custom_emoji_id to the Sticker class.
• Added sticker_type as a new field for StickerSet and as a new parameter for createNewStickerSet.

Web Apps
• Implemented support for native dialog windows including alerts, popups with custom buttons and confirmation messages.
• A confirmation dialog can now be shown when users close the web app. The dialog can be toggled via the enableClosingConfirmation and disableClosingConfirmation functions.
• Added the field is_premium to the WebAppUser class — the standard User class already included this field, see version 6.1.

• Added has_restricted_voice_and_video_messages to the Chat class to support the new premium setting.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#august-12-2022

Note: The documentation for createNewStickerSet and StickerSet no longer mentions the contains_masks parameter and field respectively. In both instances, contains_masks will continue to work for backward compatibility but developers should use sticker_type instead.

⚒ The source code of Telegram for Android and iOS have been updated to v8.9

@Telegram #Android #iOS #source #reproducibleBuilds