Telegram Release Notes

Get answers from AI bots in any chat by tagging their @username.

Connect a bot to your profile with the new Chat Automation.

Custom AI styles in text editor with cloud-based tones and sharing.

Advanced emoji and stickers search by keywords.

Poll statistics chart and subscriber/country-based vote restrictions.

Delete specific reactions and restrict reactions in groups.

Image editor improvements: brush size, text style cycling, sticker quality.

Fix tg:// link handling on cold start and login widget window activation.

Copy and paste formatting to and from HTML.

Today's update is an AI Bot revolution and more, adding over 10 new features and hundreds of improvements to Telegram:

• Get responses from AI bots in any chat by tagging their @username.
• Set up autonomous bots that communicate with other bots.
• Watch bots stream text as it is generated.
• Automate your chats by connecting a bot to your profile.
• Build and share custom AI styles for the text editor.
• Search through over 100M emoji and stickers in 36 languages.
• Set limits for voting in polls – by channel or country.
• View poll statistics to track votes for each option over time.
• Schedule messages that will be delivered silently.
• Remove reactions in groups where you're a moderator.

Guest Bots

Telegram is the only platform where all AI models can compete freely — while users have full control over their experience.

AI assistants and automated tools built as Telegram bots can now be mentioned in any private or group chat — even when they aren’t members. This lets them quickly answer questions, fact-check, generate text or images, perform tasks and more.

To mention a bot that supports this feature, simply include its @username in your message. Once the bot processes your request, it will reply directly in the chat where you mentioned it.

Bots only have access to the specific message they are tagged in and any replies to that message. Bots cannot see which users are in the chat and cannot access other messages.

Bot-to-Bot Communication

With this update, bots are now able to respond to other bots, not just users. AI enthusiasts can leverage this to automate workflows with fully autonomous agents.

Streaming Text for Bots

For a seamless user experience, bots can stream responses as they are generated — rather than waiting for the full message before sending.

Recent updates to the Bot API have made this even more efficient, for faster responses that have new animations.

Chat Automation in Profiles

With this update, every Telegram user can connect a bot to their profile — and allow it to respond to messages on their behalf.

When connecting a bot, you configure which chats it can access — like excluding all chats with your contacts, or only responding to new chats.

Custom AI Styles

Any user can now use their own prompts to build unique styles in the text editor. With this, teams can easily standardize text for posts and promotions, while communities can create meme-filled styles for their members.

Each custom style has a shareable link that allows other users to preview the style by generating examples and instantly add it to their text editor.

Expanded Emoji and Sticker Search

Over 100 million emoji and stickers created by Telegram users can now be easily found via the search function in the sticker panel. The search bar supports keywords in 36 languages — with more coming soon.

The search function is powered by custom AI models that run on the Cocoon Network to efficiently scan and label the millions of public stickers generated by Telegram users each year.

Statistics for Polls

Polls in groups and channels now display an interactive graph for admins, which tracks the number of votes for each option over time.

Poll stats become available after a poll receives 100 votes.

Custom Limits for Polls

Channel admins are now able to set custom limits on who can participate in polls — allowing only subscribers or only users from specific countries.

Silent Scheduled Messages

Messages you schedule in advance can now be delivered silently — so your updates and reminders won't disturb the recipient.

Removing Reactions

Group admins can now delete reactions from specific users to make moderation in communities even easier. When deleting a reaction, admins can also choose to remove all reactions from that user in just two taps.

Hundreds of Bug Fixes

Thanks to user reports on Telegram's Bug and Suggestion Platform, our developers were able to make over 200 improvements across all Telegram apps.

Enjoy spring while our developers and AI agents are working to bring you more.

May 7, 2026
The Telegram Team

Proxy auto-rotation option

• Allow seeking in video messages.
• Styled text items with emoji support in image editor.
• Wheel zoom and middle-button panning in image editor.
• Reply header with preview in send files box.
• Bring back original video quality option.
• Delete owned sticker set from sticker set box.
• Add-to-Sticker-Set and Add-to-Emoji-Set submenus for foreign packs.
• Screen reader support for language list and country select box.
• Fix stories in albums with reorder enabled.
• Fix layout for RTL messages.

Gradient-reveal animation for text appearing in messages.

Support draw-to-reply from shared media.

Frame-by-frame stepping and hold-to-speedup hotkeys in media view.

Fix loading stickers and emoji search results.

Custom emoji picker for premium quick reaction.

Search in section of pinned messages.

Recent search entries in settings search.

Hide phone number in main settings section.

Suggest sending large texts as files.

Allow creating polls with single answer option.

Bring menus and fullscreen media viewer to active space on macOS.

Fix several poll display and voting menu issues.

Fix possible crashes in chats list, url auth and others.

• Add experimental option for "AI Tools" button.
• Jump between markers with Alt+Arrows in video player.
• Cocoon info button in AI Tools box.
• Show warning for unofficial app builds.
• Allow text emojify without selecting a style.
• Accept also base64 (non-url) proxy secrets.
• Use tg:// deeplinks for proxy share links.
• Fix newbot deeplink parsing with trailing slash and unicode names.
• Fix file reference refresh for user, group and channel photos.
• Fix stale macOS tray icon colors after appearance switches.
• Fix tooltip crash in top peers selector with small width.
• Fix preserving markers after video quality switch in media view.

In today's update we introduce an AI Editor that can translate, transform, or fix your text in just two taps, new features for Polls like attaching media and suggesting new responses for active polls, support for Live and Motion Photos in all apps, bots that can create and manage other bots — and more.

AI Text Editor

The message bar now has a built-in editor that can instantly fix grammar, rewrite your text in a different style or translate your message into another language — all powered by open-source AI models.

The text editor offers different styles like Formal, Short, Tribal, Corp, Zen, Biblical and Viking — which you can use to make your communication more efficient or to add whimsical flair to conversations.

The text editor also allows you to add a style while translating your text — to make you sound like foreign royalty or a multilingual monk.

Like all of Telegram's AI features, the text editor utilizes the Cocoon Network to give users complete privacy. Requests are processed in a confidential environment with zero access to user data.

When writing a message, tap the 'Ai' icon that appears above the 'Send' arrow after typing more than 3 lines of text.

10+ New Features for Polls

We’ve added many new poll features — here’s what you can do now:

• Attach media or locations to questions and choices.
• Add a description for context.
• Let users suggest new options in active polls.
• Show who voted next to each option.
• Disable revoting for fixed results.
• Shuffle options for each user.
• Set time limits for polls.
• Hide results until the time runs out.
• View results without voting as the creator.

The streamlined poll settings also let you create new types of quizzes – for example with revoting allowed or with multiple correct options in case the truth gets complicated.

If you create a poll with visible votes in a group chat, you will receive a notification each time someone responds, which tells you what option they chose.

Both past and active polls now appear in a dedicated tab on group and channel profiles — so it is easy to find active polls or review the results of past polls.

Live and Motion Photos

Telegram now natively supports iOS Live Photos and Android Motion Photos — so users can send looping photos that are viewable in any Telegram app.

The sender can choose from 3 different styles in the media editor: Live, Loop, and Bounce. Live plays the photo once when opened, Loop continuously plays, while Bounce plays forward and reverse on a loop.

To send a Live Photo, tap the 'Live' button in the top corner of the media editor and select a style.

Managed Bots

Users can now create their own personalized bots with just a few taps. With the latest update to the Telegram Bot API, bots are able to create and manage other bots on your behalf.

This allows anyone to utilize AI bots to easily develop and launch their own bot — with no coding required.

Document Scanner on iOS

Telegram for iOS now allows users to create scans of documents with their phone's camera — and can stitch multiple images into one file.

The document scanner instantly removes the background, crops the image and converts it to PDF format. While scanning, you can tap an image to make manual adjustments — like changing the border, adding a filter or rotating the image.

To scan a document, open the attachment menu and select File > Scan Document.

Warning About Unofficial Apps

Telegram's official apps are fully open source with verifiable builds and encryption protocols — for maximum trust and transparency.

Telegram also provides a platform for independent developers to create third-party versions of the Telegram app. A new security alert appears on the profiles of users of third-party apps — letting others know that messages sent to them may be less secure.

Thus end the tidings of this day; yet we shall return swiftly with mightier wonders still — for a man’s work under our Lord is never done.

March 31, 2026
The Telegram Team