10 Telegram capabilities, which is useful to know

1. Saving important to "Favorites"

Not everyone knows that the section "Favorites" allows you to send messages to yourself. With it, you can conveniently transfer files, photos and simple links from your computer to your smartphone. This section can act as a general clipboard for all devices where you use Telegram.

Also it can be used to quickly save interesting records of the Telegram-channels. To do this, click on the arrow and repost from among the options in the right post to select "Favorites". This is a convenient way to return to that now you just do not have time to read.

2. Imperceptible reading messages

Once you open a new message, the sender appears in the chat-marked as it is viewed. The mobile version of Telegram is a trick that allows you to read messages discreetly to your interlocutor.

Immediately after receiving the message, do not open it and turn on your phone flight mode. Then, open the message, read it and close the Telegram, unloaded from memory. After the flight mode you can turn off and restart the app. If done correctly, the caller will not see that you have viewed his message.

3. View the video in the "picture in picture"

The mobile version of the messenger YouTube-Video you can look directly into the chat - just click on the preview image, which is displayed next to the link. Not everyone knows that you can play the video and in the "picture in picture", that is, in a small window on top of all chats.

To do this, run the clip in the Telegram and click the icon beneath a filled rectangle in the frame. Pop-up window, you can drag, but its size is always fixed.

This mode allows you to watch videos, and at the same time in touch with friends. It will be especially useful in cases when you are more important than the sound, not the picture itself, as on a small screen window with the video is pretty small.

4. Reply to a message in a pop-up warning

In order to respond to each new message does not deploy the application, you can use the response directly in the notification. That is a message to the area for a set of text will be displayed directly on top of other programs and desktops.

To enable this feature, navigate to the settings section of notifications and sounds, and there - "Pop-up notification." If you select "Always On", the new message will have an effect even when the screen is locked or off.

5. Record audio messages without holding the button

To record audio messages to the mobile version of Telegram in the selected chat need to hold down the microphone icon. It's not a secret. However, not everyone knows that if after clicking on the microphone does not remove the finger and pull it up, the recording will continue automatically. This is very useful when creating long audioposlany.

6. Automatic recording of audio messages

There is another way to quickly record voice messages: Just open the desired chat and bring the smartphone to your ear. Display device turns off and begins automatic recording.

If the function does not work, perhaps in settings Telegram she just turned off. Check the switch "Voice Recording approaching."

7. Creating and sending a GIF-animation

The mobile version of Telegram has the function of sending video. It allows you to quickly remove the clip, crop it, choose the quality, and to send to the chat as needed. That will have a video in MP4 format, which is run when you press.

If, however, when creating video trimming the menu to turn off the sound by clicking on the icon with a microphone, then your record will go to chat GIF format. And it will be played automatically in a circle.

8. Masking over the photo

When sending photos in the Telegram on your smartphone, you can crop the picture, change the colors, add a signature or attach stickers funny masks. It can be a funny wig, beard, sunglasses, animal ears, and more.

To select these "labels" in the message sending menus make photo using camera smartphone. Then, in the Edit menu, click on the brush, and then - on the mask icon. All the proposed messenger Stickers can be rotated and resized.

9. Password protection chats

This feature allows you to hide the correspondence from prying eyes. It will be useful in situations where you might accidentally leave somewhere unlocked smartphone. Even if they wanted to open a list of chats will not be without a verification code.

The function is called "passcode," and it is available in your privacy settings, and security. After you create a four-digit password at the top of the chat list, you need to click on the lock icon. You can then minimize the application or simply turn off the smartphone screen. When you try to open Telegram again require this password.

10. Hiding chat with disabled notifications

List chats and contacts Telegram still not sorted. When new messages come from everywhere, even off the notification of the selected channels is not saved.

To solve this problem, many are switching to alternative mobile clients, such as Plus Messenger. In it for the chat, canals, boats and others have separate tabs. It's really good, but what about the desktop version? There is a solution for it, with directly in the official client.

Open the settings, including the English layout and type spelling the word workmode. You should receive a message, where you have to confirm the action. Then restart the program and in the conversation list and the channel will be clickable words "Hide chat without notice." Clicking on it will allow to hide all the chats in which you have disabled the alerts.

Return to the standard form can be in the same way: by entering workmode command in the program settings.

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