The Christmas gift from Telegram: new interface for channels, news for Stories and much more

Telegram is one of the most popular instant messaging platforms in the world, and its duality with WhatsApp has been evident for years. His software support it is constant, and is felt even in the midst of the Christmas period.

In fact, in the last few hours a new update for Telegram. As often happens, this is an update very consistentwith a list of new features that concern daily use and which involve all versions of Telegram, starting from the app for Android and iOS devices.

Let’s go and see all the new features introduced:

Graphical customization of channels

THE channels of Telegram gain options graphic customization unpublished. In addition to the color of their messages, channel owners can now choose a color and logo for their profile cover, set an emoji status and a background that will be visible to anyone who opens the channel.

Relatively to status emojichannels can choose from thousands of emojis created by Telegram artists.

Below you will find an animation which shows how to start customizing the channel interface.

Sharing posts in Stories

Channel messages can now be republished in stories. This is the ability to add a copy of the message that can be moved, resized and customized. Anyone who sees the story can simply tap to open the message in its source channel.

Sharing posts in Stories supports all kinds of messagessuch as photos, files and even voice messages or video messages.

Simultaneous Premium Telegram Gifts

The possibility arrives give Telegram Premium to multiple people at the same time. In Settings there is a new “Premium Gift” section, where you can select up to 10 users and gift them Telegram Premium with a single tap. If one of these users already has Premium, you can save the gift to activate it later or send it to a friend.

New details for Stories

With this update, channel administrators can now see the reactions to their storiesand both users and channels can see who reposted their stories.

Photo editor for Stories

The possibility arrives insert images personal within the Stories. The added images can also be customized with basic tools photo editingsuch as cropping and background removal.

Rollout

The update we just described is currently during automatic distribution for apps Android And iOS of Telegram. Below you will find the direct buttons to check if you have already received the update for your device.

Download from Play Store

Download from the App Store