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How to manage and delete your Telegram account

Ankur Thakur ∙ January 25, 2022

In early 2021, Telegram saw a massive rise in users, thanks to a new WhatsApp privacy policy. People flocked from the Facebook-owned WhatsApp to the feature-rich Telegram app. Maybe you too did. But now, you find Telegram isn't as exciting as you thought. So, now you want to delete your Telegram account.

In this tutorial, we will tell you why Telegram may not be the best messaging app for you. After that, we will show you handy tips, including how to temporarily deactivate your Telegram account or delete it permanently from your iPhone or iPad. These steps (with slight visual variation) also work for Android, Mac, PC, or web.

How to use emoji reactions on Telegram

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated August 23, 2022

You should take advantage of Telegram emoji reactions to spice up your encrypted conversations with a red heart, fire, party popper, or other expressive emoticons.

How to send pictures in full quality on iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal

Ankur Thakur ∙ Updated December 13, 2022

Instant messaging apps compress photos and videos to share them rapidly using less bandwidth. Compressing the images also ensures the recipient can download and view them as soon as possible, even on slow networks.

For most cases, media compression is great. But if you ever want to send an image of a document, text, group picture for printout, or any other serious purposes, you might want to stick with the highest resolution. If you don't, the final image can be blurry, unclear, unprofessional, and with finer details lost.

To address this, here are several ways to send a picture or video clip in full, uncompressed quality on iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal from your iPhone or iPad.

Nanogram: Use Telegram on your Apple Watch without iPhone

Christian Zibreg ∙ July 30, 2021

Nanogram, a new app from the creator of the FlickType swipe keyboard app for watchOS, lets you use Telegram on Apple Watch even when you don’t have your iPhone on you.

Telegram founder says using an iPhone is like being in the Middle Ages, bashes software and much more

Evan Selleck ∙ May 19, 2021

Recently, The New York Times published a story detailing some concessions Apple has made in terms of user privacy and security in mainland China. At least one person is not happy with those decisions.

Telegram gains expiring invites, auto-delete in any chat, unlimited groups and more

Christian Zibreg ∙ February 26, 2021

The secure messaging software Telegram has been updated with a flurry of new features, including vanishing messages in any kind of chat, as the app continues to see a burst of new users following the confusion over WhatsApp’s upcoming privacy policy change.

You can now import your WhatsApp chat history complete with attachments into Telegram

Christian Zibreg ∙ January 28, 2021

The encrypted messaging app Telegram has rolled out a tool for importing your WhatsApp chat history on iOS. It's available in version 7.4 update, which is now live in the App Store.