Telegram Premium was hardly expected. First the benefits were leaked, then Pavel Durov confirmed it’s coming soon and now the subscription is official as it comes with a new version of the app. news for free users too.

Telegram is lucky. Messaging app boasts of having reached 700 million active users per month while announcing the official launch of the new paid subscription along with additional benefits and other news coming regardless of whether you pay for the subscription.

Telegram Premium is coming

Telegram Premium is already a reality as the second front that monetizes the app after ads are added in some places and some channels. Telegram Premium one monthly subscription where you get additional benefits from having higher limits on pretty much everything to the weird custom feature. Its final price in Spain is 5.49 Euros. The advantages of Telegram Premium today are:

• More than almost anything. Almost all the limits that the app has are increased when paying for the premium subscription. For example, you can upload 4GB files instead of 2GB, join 1,000 groups instead of 500, pin 10 chats instead of 5, or save 400 animated GIFs instead of 200. The full list of limits for each of the Telegram versions can be found summarized in the table below.

• faster downloads. Premium subscribers can download files from the app’s cloud at the highest possible speed. Telegram hereby does not specify what the maximum speed applicable to free users is.

• Convert speech to text. An interesting function of Telegram Premium allows us to convert voice memos to text to know what they are talking about without having to listen.

• Custom stickers and reactions. Telegram Premium subscribers will have special sticker packs and reactions at their disposal. Free users can view but not use them.

• chat management. New tools are coming to organize your chats, such as the possibility to change your default chat folder when opening the app.

• Animated profile photos. Premium users can have a profile picture animated throughout the app in loop mode.

• premium badge. Everyone who passes through the vault will have a badge – a small star – next to their name.

• new icons. Telegram’s Premium version allows you to customize the app with new icons that are not available for free users.

• ad-free. With Telegram Premium, you will not see any ads on channels.

Request to join groups

There is also news for users who want to continue using Telegram at no cost. The first allows admins of a group enable join requests. With them, admins can review join requests to approve or reject them.

When requests to join a group are enabled, you will see the button when you try to join. Request to join the group. By doing this, you will be part of the list of users who want to join and admins will be able to open a private chat with that person.

verified chats

A minor change to the verification of accounts by public figures and organizations. In addition to being displayed in profiles, search results, and chat lists, it is now will also be displayed in the chat thread (in the top bar during a conversation).

Bot improvements

A small innovation will come to the Telegram bot platform. Now bot developers can add a photo or video to the section What can this bot do?to inform users more clearly and visually about the functions of the bot in question.

Android chat preview improvements

For some time now, it has been possible to preview a Telegram chat by long tapping the profile picture in the chats list. Now The preview of chats in Telegram for Android is getting better Adopting some of the news available on Telegram for iOS.

It’s possible in this new preview Swipe to see the entire conversation No need to mark as read. New buttons have also been added to mark the chat as read, mute, pin or delete it.

Saved to gallery

New option in Telegram for Android. in the section Data and storage now section of settings save to galleryYou can control which items you want automatically included in the mobile gallery.

You can select the multimedia files that come to you in the first place separately if you want. private chats, groups and channelswhether they are displayed in the mobile gallery.

Sharing improvements on iOS

Telegram now allows sending files up to 4GB, which requires some preparation and can take some time. When sharing files from another app to Telegram it shows: a window reporting progress so you can get an idea of ​​how long it will take.

other changes

Beyond mobile apps, version Telegram for macOS It improves by allowing you to create a personalized profile picture using stickers, animated emojis and a gradient background color. Additionally, they include: More than 100 various fixes and optimizations It includes smoother animations on iPhone and iPad, audio quality improvements on Android, alternative app icons, and more.

The new version of Telegram should come with: Update via Google Play and App Store in the next few hours or days. At the moment, the APK version of the Telegram website is also not updated.

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