Telegram App Gets Self-Destructing Photo Feature

Secure messaging app Telegram is becoming a footling more than like Snapchat.

The Telegram squad on Dominicus released a new version of the app (4.ii), which includes a self-destruct timer for photos and videos, a new bio feature for profiles, plus speed and sticker improvements.

"We have completely redesigned our photo editing tools, and information technology takes you fifty-fifty fewer taps to brand your photos expect astonishing," the Telegram squad wrote in a blog mail service announcing the update.

If you apply Snapchat, Telegram'due south disappearing photo feature won't be all that novel.

"If you gear up a timer, the countdown starts the moment your recipient opens the photograph or video you sent," the team explained. "Subsequently the fourth dimension runs out, the photo/video will disappear forever, but like in Clandestine Chats." Rest assured that the app will ship yous a notification if the recipient tries to take a screenshot of your photograph before information technology disappears.

Too that, you tin also at present add a bio to your Telegram profile. Just head over to Settings and type a few words well-nigh yourself.

"Every time you stumble upon new users in big groups you lot might want to learn more nigh them," the team wrote. "That's where bios can help."

Yous can also at present aggrandize the scrolling expanse when you're looking through stickers, which should brand it a niggling easier to find the prefect paradigm.

And finally, this update promises to make the app a lot speedier. Telegram now relies on a distributed network to enshroud publicly-available photos and videos posted in channels with 100,000 or more members.

"This will outcome in significantly college download speeds for tens of millions of Telegram users effectually the world," the team wrote.

Telegram version four.ii is available for download in the App Store and Google Play.

These new features come after Telegram last autumn added a bot-powered gaming platform to the app. To starting time a game, just collaborate with the @gamee bot directly, or invoke it from any of your chats by typing "@gamee" in a group. Then, choose a game and start playing with your friends. When you spot a skilful game, you can challenge your friends by merely sharing information technology with them.

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Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fitness and smart abode products. Educational activity yoga for nigh x years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, forcefulness training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela likewise tests smart domicile devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to proper noun a few.