A month after the unique announcement, Telegram’s Tales characteristic is now rolling out to customers. In keeping with the corporate, solely Premium subscribers can “at present” submit Tales. All Telegram customers can see these non permanent, auto-expiring photograph and video statuses.
Tales seem like obtainable with Telegram model 9.7.0 for Android. The most recent replace for the app provides a + button on the prime of your chat listing. Tapping this button will mean you can submit a Story, with Telegram permitting you so as to add captions and hyperlinks, and tag different customers as nicely. You get a bunch of photograph and video-editing instruments to stylize your Tales.
Whereas you need to use pre-captured images and movies in your Tales, Telegram additionally helps you to live-record movies with the back and front cameras concurrently. Relying in your setting, your Story will expire in 6, 12, 24, or 48 hours. It’s also possible to make Tales everlasting, although. You’ll need to manually choose which Tales will completely seem in your profile web page. Telegram offers you particular person privateness settings for every.
Talking of privateness, Telegram presents a variety of privateness settings on your Tales. You may select to make a Story public or make it viewable solely to your contacts, choose contacts, or Shut Pals. A “My Tales” part on the prime of the left hamburger menu is the place you can find your tales. Telegram presents two separate tabs right here: Saved and Archive. The latter tab helps you to choose Tales that you simply need to make everlasting.
Solely Telegram Premium customers can at present submit Tales
For viewers, Tales will seem in an expandable part on the prime of the chat listing. As soon as once more, you get management over the Tales that you simply see. In the event you don’t need to see these updates from a sure consumer, you’ll be able to simply block or conceal them. As mentioned earlier, all Telegram customers can now see Tales posted by different customers. However solely these with a Premium subscription can submit Tales, not less than in the interim.
It’s unclear when Telegram will deliver this potential to free customers. In the meantime, for those who’re prepared to pay the corporate for this characteristic, the $4.99 per 30 days subscription provides you with much more. Telegram Premium presents bigger file uploads (as much as 4GB), quicker downloads, transcriptions, as much as 20 public t.me hyperlinks, premium badges, customized app icons, an ad-free expertise, and a bunch of different perks. You may click on the button beneath to obtain the most recent Telegram replace.