Monday 9 September 2019

Telegram update: Scheduled Messages, Reminders and More Privacy features. Sept 2019

New Old Telegram: Telegram still growing strong and beautiful




...or is it old new Telegram? More themes to make it feel new. Hi Techies, glad to have you here. Am always excited when I see innovations growing and keeping on updating. Telegram celebrated its 6th birthday this year. For one I have been a great Telegram user plus thousand other users who even make money out of Telegram app - content creators, bloggers... you know yourselves. Comment below if you make money out of Telegram app.

Despite many other messaging apps the competition is tight, Telegram Messaging app keeps growing and updating - its users are unique same to its features. Telegram has many features like the normal messaging app features: video chat, emojis and not just emojis but animated ones that would make you smile even when sad, groups and other features like channels that hold more that 150k members and subscribers (talk of privacy), voting and commenting bots among many others. I use it for marketing, chatting, sending non compressed photos and videos to friends and saving photos on its cloud.
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Speaking of cloud, cloud computing according to oxford is the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.
Cloud storage has been with the Telegram app both mobile and desktop versions since it started. I save frequent messages and photos which I can access on my desktop version and mobile version. I draft posts from that space before posting to specific channels and groups. Lets start with the amazing new features - an additional feature to the send button menu - Scheduled messages.

Scheduled Messages

The "handy menu" as Telegram calls it are a set of options that come up when you hold down the send button... a new option was added to the family - Schedule message. This option brings up a calendar which you can select the date and time you want that message to go. You can also select it not to beep when it reaches the destination. You can schedule it to be a wake up alarm for a friend... be creative.        
How To Schedule A Message On Telegram App
...funny example right? hahaha ...I love sending birthday messages in the crack of midnight and sometimes I miss waking up to send them. For this feature I can write down and schedule a message and also set my timer to wake me up and a Telegram reminder too.

Reminder Messages

Speaking of reminder messages, Telegram added a "handy menu" option in the Saved Messages chat when you press hold on the send button. The set reminder button appears and by selecting it you get a calendar to select date and time to get the reminder. Its just like sending yourself a scheduled message but not just a message  but a reminder. Good thinking!
How To Set Reminders Using Telegram

Custom Cloud Themes

Custom cloud themes are customizable Telegram's appearances/themes which was added in 2017 but now it has been upgraded to work seamlessly with mobile app and the desktop version. The the color theme you apply on your mobile app is also applied to the desktop version. Choose a pre-set accent color or pick something unique from the color wheel, and the app will adjust all elements accordingly. Create new themes based on your color and wallpaper choices, then fine-tune them manually or share right away. Each theme has a sharing link which allows anyone to switch to your theme and wallpaper in just two taps.
How To Set Up Custom Cloud Theme on Telegram
NOTE: Select the Motion checkbox for the background to shake whenever your phone shakes, coool right? Try it out. Share your theme with your friends too.

New Privacy Settings 

As Telegram groups can be public and may hold up to 200,000 members each, privacy becomes an issue. Telegram has solved something am sure might have been worrying you while you would like to express your opinions and communicate privately.
If you set Who Can See My Phone Number to ‘Nobody’, a new option will appear below, allowing you to control your visibility for those who already have it. Setting Who Can Find Me By My Number to ‘My Contacts’ will ensure that random users who add your number as a contact are unable to match your profile to that number.

To friends and family members on the app, this setting won't get in your way. Nice privacy feature. Comment below on how you feel about the new Telegram features and look for us on Telegram Channel and follow us on Social Media Twitter, Facebook Instagram and Pinterest, like and share the article.
Until next time, Peace.

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