Telegram Messenger Tricks : The Telegram has been one of the best messenger app available these days that’s available. Clearly telegram is no match for WhatsApp & FB Messenger when it comes to market share. But it has been one of the fastest growing messenger app. It’s cross-platform support and app availability makes it more adaptable. Telegram has a great developer community. They’re very much creative and develops a great set of cool & unique features with every update. Here are the Top 10 Coolest Telegram messenger tricks that no one told you.
Here i’m mentioning top 10 unique set of telegram messenger tricks and feature that no one has ever mentioned on the web. With telegram getting frequent updates and new features for IOS/ Windows / Android / Linux / PC and web versions, there will always be more tricks. So keep visiting this page as i’ll be adding more tricks with the release of new updates and features.
Picture in Picture mode in Telegram Messenger
The picture in picture mode in Telegram lets users watch a video and chat at the same time. The video will be played in a small window which can be positioned anywhere on the screen. But, this feature works only inside the app. Here’s how to try this
Share the youtube video link you want to watch in the app with anyone Or share it to your own chat.
Click on the thumbnail to start playing the video.
Tap the Pic-in-pic icon (shown in the image below)
Now the video will be played in a small window which lets you chat at the same time.
Picture in picture mode in Telegram messenger app
Use telegram to transfer files between your devices:
One thing that makes telegram stand out from the competition is its cross-platform support. Telegram supports almost every major platform, which we can make use to our own advantage.
Use Telegram to transfer files between your devices
We might want to share a file/ text from our mobile to PC or Linux Pc to Mac Laptop or IPad. Instead of connecting the device or using software like pushbullet, we can use the telegram app. We can share any kind of file from any device to any device instantly. All you need is to install telegram on all your devices and log in to it with your id.
Transfer Files between devices using Telegram , Transfer Images without getting compressed
Use Telegram to share uncompressed images/photos across devices
Now send the file to your own account (to yourself) in telegram app and you can access the file from any other device. The best thing with telegram is it won’t compress your images like other messenger apps. So you don’t have to worry about the quality of the images. So using telegram you can share any type of data wirelessly between all your devices instantly.
Convert Youtube Videos to Audio directly on Telegram
Bots are fun and offer special features. Using Telegram we can convert YouTube videos into audio format and can download them directly to our devices.
Convert Youtube Videos Directly to Audio and download them on Telegram
Using Telegram we can direct the audio of any YouTube video directly to our
Search for the ytAudio bot and start chatting with it.
Copy the link of the youtube video you want to convert and share the link in the chat with the ytaudio bot.
Now you’ll be given the details of the youtube video along with download option and size of the audio.
Click on the download button to start downloading
Once it’s downloaded, you can play it directly in the app itself.
Using the options, Save the audio file to your device.
Search Chat by Date in Telegram :
One of the coolest features when it comes to chat history with telegram is its inbuilt chat search. All the messenger apps provide the search functionality, So Whats so special in this? We can search chat by Date in the telegram. This stands to be a unique feature no other messenger hasn’t provided this yet.
Search by Date in Telegram messenger chat – Cool Telegram Messenger Tricks
Open a chat in which you want to search.
Click the 3 dot button from the top right corner
Click on search to start searching.
Now you’ll see the calendar button to choose. Click on it to search by date.
Hide Your IP in Telegram:
protect your privacy by hiding your IP. The IP can be used to trace the users and keep track of them. Telegram gives you the option to hide your Ip during the calls. This will route your calls through telegram servers offering you complete privacy.
Go to Settings > Privacy and Security.
Scroll to end of the screen and you’ll see Peer-to-peer option.
Disable it to relay all the call through telegram servers which protect your IP by hiding it.
Hide your IP, Protect your privacy using telegram
Set Auto Self Destruct to Telegram Account:
You have an option to set an auto self-destruct time to your telegram account. So you don’t need to worry about security/privacy of your messages thinking someone could access it someday.
Set Auto Self Destruct time in telegram messenger
View Media Without Getting Seen :
We can view the media content received by us without letting the sending knowing that we saw it.
Simply enable the autosave to gallery option from settings.
when you receive the message, Open Gallery in your mobile and go to “telegram images” folder.
View media without getting seen
you can directly view the media files you received without having to open the app. It can be audio or video or image file, The sender will never know that you have checked the file he sent. The Blue tick marks won’t update since you are not viewing the file from the app.
Hide last seen from particular users :
Unlike WhatsApp, telegram offers more personalized options to deal with last seen. You can hide your last seen from some particular people or you can enable your last seen to only some people. probably you can share you last seen only with your close friends & family and hide it from others.
Hide your last seen from specific users
Go to Settings > Privacy & Security.
Under the Privacy Section: Click on “Last Seen”
Under the Add Exceptions: You can Individual users
with Whom you always want to share your last seen
with Whom you never want to share your last seen
View Web links without having to leave the app :
View links inside telegram without leaving the app
The In-App browser in Telegram lets you read web articles without having to leave the app. By default the in-app browser is disabled. You can activate it, By going to the Settings page. Under the Messages (category) you’ll see the In-App browser. Toggle the button to enable it.
Pin messages to top in groups:
Pinned messages to top of group chats
Are you the admin of a group? Sometimes you might want to send an important message but don’t want it to be missed among other messages. You can now pin the message to the top of the chat where everyone can see and it won’t pass by when the new messages come.
Set Nicknames to your friends in Telegram:
Telegram lets you give nicknames to your friends. Though it’s not officially mentioned as nicknames. It gives you the option to edit the names which won’t edit the names in your phone book. So you can have different names in the phone book and Telegram app for the same person. We can use this feature to put nicknames to our friends.
Cool Telegram Messenger Tricks – Set nick name to friends in telegram
Open the chat and click on the name of the sender.
From the options > click on the “EDIT” option.
Now its time for you to choose a nickname for your friend.
These are just some of the coolest things that we can do with Telegram. Because of the creative developer community, Telegram is able to offer a lot of cool new features with every update. With all these unique features, Telegram stands out to be something more than just an instant messenger app.
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