Telegram Rolls Out Exciting New Features to Elevate User Interaction and Discoverability
Instant messaging app Telegram has announced a major update packed with new features designed to enhance user experience and redefining messaging experience. The latest update introduces Message Effects, Hashtag Search, Collapsible Quotes and several other innovative enhancements.
Message Effects
Telegram users can now add spectacular animated effects to their messages, making conversations more lively and expressive. Whether it’s a screen covered in kisses, flames or other emotions, users can choose from six free effects. Telegram Premium subscribers gain access to hundreds more, including all effects from Premium stickers.
To add an effect, simply press and hold the Send arrow and pick the emotion that matches your message.
Captions Above Media
Users can now position captions above media, ensuring that illustrations and punchlines are displayed where they make the most sense.
To move a caption, select media in the attachment menu, type a caption, press and hold the Send arrow, and select ‘Move Caption Up’. This feature is also available when editing media or albums.
Quick Actions for Phone Numbers
Tapping a phone number in a chat now opens a redesigned menu, offering quick options to send a message, start a call, or add the number as a contact with just one tap. This enhancement simplifies the process of connecting with new contacts.
Hashtag Search
With the new global hashtag search, finding #important messages or exploring topics like #news and #travel is easier than ever. Tapping a hashtag in any chat now includes results from big public channels, offering a broader view of relevant content. Users can browse these results as a scrollable feed or a compact list. Importantly, messages from private chats remain excluded from global searches, maintaining user privacy.
Collapsible Quotes
The introduction of collapsible quotes, allowing users to hide fragments of text within messages. This feature helps keep messages concise while giving readers the option to expand and read more if they wish.
Adding a collapsible quote is straightforward: format the quote and tap the collapse button in the input field.
Colorful Calls on macOS
Following the success of dynamic backgrounds and stylish animations for voice and video calls on Android and iOS, these visual enhancements are now available on Telegram’s native macOS app. The update ensures that desktop calls are not only more beautiful but also more resource-efficient.
