The best tricks to take advantage of telegram

Telegram is an application that many have long seen as an alternative to WhatsApp. With the passage of time it has ceased to be considered an alternative, to become the main competitor of the application owned by Facebook. Telegram has introduced numerous improvements over time. So many, that it is seen by many as the best instant messaging application on the market today.

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The best Telegram tricks

On more than one occasion, Telegram has shown that it is an application with a lot of potential. In addition to offering a multitude of additional functions for users. It allows us to do many things that WhatsApp does not allow us. Therefore, it is a most interesting option. With this in mind, we have decided to collect the main Telegram tricks.

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Thanks to these tricks you will be able to discover everything that this instant messaging application offers us. In addition to being able to discover some ways to get the most out of all the functions available in it. Ready to learn these tricks?

Secret chats that can self-destruct

Telegram has always stood out for being an application that puts user safety as a priority. Therefore, they have an option that allows us to protect to the maximum the message that we are going to send to another person. Whether we are going to share a password, an account number or our credit card number, we have the option of doing it safely with the application. We can carry out a secret chat, which allows us to have a conversation without leaving a trace.

To start a secret chat, just open the application menu and select the new secret chat option. He will ask us for which contact we want the conversation and once selected, the chat begins. It looks like a normal chat, but it has extreme encryption. Also, no screenshots can be taken. Self-destruction is usually activated by default. To activate it, just click on the profile picture of the contact and you will get several options. Among them self-destruction.

Choose who can see your last connection

The application gives you the option to decide who you want to see the last time you connected. The way to carry out this is by following the following route: Settings> Privacy and security> last connection and manage who can see your status online. There, you will have to choose between any of the available options. You can select all, some contacts or nobody. So you can add exceptions, which will be those that cannot see your last connection.

Telegram is going to show a time approximation to those contacts who cannot see your last connection. It may be recently, a week ago, a month ago, or long ago.

Password for your conversations

You have the option of giving even more security to your chats. For this you can configure a password that you will have to enter every time you enter the application. Achieving this is very simple. You just have to follow the following route: Settings> Privacy and security> Access code.

When you have configured the password you are given the option to choose the time you want the lock to activate automatically again. From 1 minute to a maximum of 5 hours. If your phone has a fingerprint sensor you can also unlock it in this way.

Integrated gif search engine

Many users are used to sending gifs on a regular basis in conversations. They are a very popular option, and for which Telegram offers support. To make its use simpler and more habitual, the application introduced a gif search engine within the chats. Something really useful.

All users can use it easily, although it is different between Android and iOS. The way to use it is as follows:

• Android: Attach> Gallery> Find GIFs iOS: Attach> Find images

A trick that can be extremely useful for many is the following. If you type @gif in a chat in the app, followed by a word you want, it will search for gifs in Giphy directly. So surely you will also find something you were looking for.

Change the font size

Telegram gives you the option to change the font size. You can make it bigger or smaller. We can choose the size between 12 and 30, so there are quite a few options. Generally the default option is 16. How do we change the font size?

Just follow this path: Settings> Messages> Text size. There we can change it to the size that best suits our needs.

Clear cache

Something that is recommended from time to time is to clear the cache of the applications that we have installed on our phone. Files and data get stored and end up taking up too much space on the device. Luckily, we can always clear the cache and be able to easily free up space. For this we have to follow this route: Settings> Messages> Cache settings.

Telegram provides us with the option of activating a self-cleaning of files from time to time. Ideally, look at the cache of the app from time to time. In this way we can determine if we need to delete it or not.

Answer from the home screen

This is a function that is only available for Android devices. We can reply to a message directly from the home screen of our smartphone. What we have to do to enable this feature is to activate pop-up notifications. In order to achieve this, the route to follow is as follows: Settings> Notifications and sounds> Pop-up notifications. It is in this section where we are given a choice when these notifications will appear.

Without a doubt, it is one of the most useful options that Telegram provides us to be able to reply to our contacts more quickly to a message. Although if you have many open conversations this option can be somewhat annoying.

Edit already sent messages

It may happen that we send the wrong message to one of our contacts. We don't want to delete it, but we do want to be able to edit it. Luckily, Telegram allows us to edit a message that we have already sent. That way, we can fix that mistake that we have made. What you have to do is keep the message pressed and then select the edit option. The contact you wrote the message to will see the new edited message.

Manage multimedia files

Telegram is an application that allows us to send heavy files, up to 1.5 GB. Although in that case it is always recommended to use the web or desktop version. If a contact sends us a file of this size, we can say goodbye to our data rate. Luckily, it is something that we can configure file management in a simple way.

We need to go to Settings> Automatic multimedia download. Then we can determine what we want to be downloaded automatically with data, with WiFi or with roaming. We can choose the type of multimedia or we also have the option to disable automatic download directly. The option that is most comfortable for you.

Open external links in your browser

It is very annoying that clicking on the link from the conversation opens the internal browser of Telegram. If you are one of the users who sees this as annoying, you have the option to change it in a simple way. We can disable the internal browser of the application. The route to follow is: Settings> Messages> Use internal browser.

Once we do this, the links will always be opened with the browser that you have selected by default on your phone. Either Chrome, Firefox or the one you have installed.

Read messages offline

Telegram provides you with the option of being able to read messages without being online. We have the option of making use of the message preview in the notifications. So you can read a message without that contact knowing. What you have to do is when you receive the message disable the data connection or the WiFi of your phone. Open the app and read the message. When you have read it you can close the application and connect again.

Hide the photos in the gallery

If you do not want to see the photos and videos shared through the application you can always use this trick. Telegram gives us the option to hide images and videos on Android. To achieve this, what we have to do is disable the option save to gallery in the application settings. A very simple way and without a doubt a trick of enormous utility.

Delete messages completely

A function of enormous utility and so popular that even WhatsApp has copied it. We refer to the option to delete messages completely. In this way they disappear from the conversation forever, both for us and for the contact with whom we have that chat. Something that can save our lives on more than one occasion.

To delete a message on Telegram, all we have to do is press and hold on that message. You will then have the option to delete the message in question. We mark the option to delete for recipient. And ready! We can definitely forget that message.

Open videos in floating windows

Telegram provides us with ways to enhance multitasking. One of them is the option to watch videos in floating windows. Whether they are videos from YouTube or other platforms such as Vimeo, when we receive a video link in the application, a small window will be executed at the bottom of the screen. If we click on the square icon at the top of the video, a floating window opens. In this way we can continue conversing with contacts while watching the video.

Use a chat with yourself as a cloud

The application allows us to have a chat with ourselves. This can give us many benefits. Since we can use this chat to send us links or files. Either write us messages with things we want to remember or have to do. So we can give it many uses and make it become a kind of personal cloud or agenda. What suits you best.

Play with contacts within the chat

Telegram bots have become very popular and extremely useful. For a few months now we have been able to play games in conversation with our friends. There are various bots to play like @gamebot or @gamee. They have a relatively wide catalog of games, so there is guaranteed fun for a few hours.

In the case of the second bot we have the option to play by ourselves, also ideal for moments when we are bored. Most of these games are mini-games, which also stand out for being very light. So you can play without problems. They will hardly affect the operation of the device or the application.

Telegram channels

Telegram channels are among the richest and most varied. We can find everything in them. From channels to watch movies and series, politicians, music groups, news… The list is endless. As there are so many channels it is somewhat complicated to always be up to date on news or on what channels are new in the application.

There is a way to find new channels in the app. You have to enter the official channel of Telegram @tchannels. This is the channel of channels. So we can more easily control what channels are available.

Share photos without compression

One of the main problems that surely has happened to more than one is that when sharing photos, they are compressed. It is done so as not to consume as much data, which is fine, but does affect the quality of the images. It is something that can be very annoying, especially if it is an important photo or one that you have worked on for a long time.

Fortunately, Telegram also offers us a solution to this problem. You have to click on the clip icon and then on file. Next we select the photos that we want to share. When we are going to send them, a preview will not be generated, but the option to download will appear. In this way, when we go to send these photos they will do so in their original quality. They will not be compressed.

Search images without leaving the chat

You are chatting with a friend and you want to send them a photo. Telegram makes it possible for you to search for such an image without having to leave the chat itself. There are two ways to do this. Both are very simple:

1. Click on the clip icon and then in gallery. In the upper left you can go to the photo search option - web search. The second way is more direct. We can make use of bots. Write @pic, @bing and then add the search term.

Personalized notifications for each contact

This option is only available for users with Android phones. It is an ideal way to quickly identify who is writing to you without opening the application. We can customize notifications based on the contact. For this you have to go directly to our contacts. There, we click on the photo of the contact in question.

We get your profile and at the bottom there is a section called notifications. If we click on this option we see that we get several options. One of them is to personalize. Thus, we can customize everything based on contact. We can change the vibrations, the timbre, the priority or even customize the LED of the notification. Everything you want.

These are the best Telegram tricks. We hope you find them useful when making use of the instant messaging application. In this way, with this selection of tricks you can get the most out of an application as useful as Telegram. What do you think of these tricks?