Telegram Desktop Updates & Release Notes

Add rich message editor with media, tables and math formulas.

Show rich message drafts with full formatting in chat compose area.

Add text recognition with selection and copying to media viewer images.

Add swipe navigation and pinch zoom gestures to media viewer.

Support zoom and dragging files out in shared media photos.

Allow adapting existing stickers into custom emoji.

Add media viewer video playback to system media controls.

Add alphabetical fast-scroll index to contacts box.

Improve screen reader accessibility for chats list and folders.

Animated 3D objects on settings covers (premium star, coin, diamond).

Particle effects for one-time voice message playback.

Birthday celebration effect on profile.

Poll votes graph in message statistics.

Separate send action animation for round video messages.

Open public channels from chat folder invite links.

Notify toggle and muted icon for silent scheduled messages.

Per-window Qt RHI renderer activation.

Fix empty chat list preview after deleting last message.

Fix shaking of pinned chats dragged past rows of other heights.

Fix scroll with keyboard in chat history.

Fix pause of animated reactions when opening their context menu.

Improve performance with RHI enabled.

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.

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.