The battle to be the best instant messaging app moving at a crazy speed. After several months filled with security updates and design changes to WhatsApp, its main competitor Telegram has taken over and Xiaomi brings news for your mobile.

despite telegram not updated that often The app as WhatsApp does, the truth is most of the functionality we find in the Meta app was already on Telegram months ago so these changes now they can put it back as the preferred option.

Battery saver mode in the app itself

There are many ways to save battery on our Xiaomi mobile: enable battery saver mode, lower the refresh rate, reduce screen animations…both MIUI 13 and the new MIUI 14 offer many options. What if we could apply these settings to a single app?

They did just that from Telegram with this update. In the application itself, A ‘switch’ has been created that disables anything with high consumption. Battery for our Xiaomi mobile:

• animations
• Automatic video playback
• stickers
• emoji

any animation it will be disabled to maximize your device batteryWithout having to give up other background processes that can be disabled by turning on MIUI’s overall battery saving mode.

Fast Play: a reflection of WhatsApp

In addition to this new special battery saving mode for the Telegram app, the company also wanted to keep up with the competitionand mimicked one of the functions that came to WhatsApp a few months ago: playback speed.

After that, when you listen to a voice memo in Telegram from your Xiaomi mobile, you can choose at what speed you want to listen to it: 1.5x or 2x. This saves some time especially when we need to listen to a very long voice memo or someone who speaks very slowly.

These are the biggest changes we will find in it. New app update for Android and iOSAlthough there are a few more that are detailed on the download page of the Google Play app. Along with them, Telegram continues to follow WhatsApp. take the throne of the best instant messaging app.