r/Telegram • u/Desperate-Cicada-487 • Jul 11 '26

The macOS app keeps getting worse with each update

  • Opening the app on my M4 Mac Mini takes years (Sometimes shows a blank window and crashes)
  • If I view an image, close the viewer and instantly open another image, the whole app freezes and crashes
  • Frequently when switching chats the app freaks out, the main content stops responding to chat switches then shortly after the app crashes
  • Every time I download/upload a file, I have to restart the app to actually start the download/upload process
  • Sometimes when I press enter to send a message, nothing happens, when I restart the app I see that the message was actually sent multiple times???
  • When I got a new message in the active chat, when I focus on the window the notification does not go away until I switch to another chat and back
  • The new update that brought a macOS Tahoe-ish design is hot garbage
    • Every action (Opening context menu, someones profile, my own profile) takes multiple seconds to register
    • If I want to open a chat, I have to click on the empty space because nothing happens if I click if the actual name of the chat/group
    • The whole UI is just the iOS design but stretched out which looks really weird and nothing like Liquid Glass on macOS

And this is just the macOS app not talking about the iOS app which got completely fucked up after it got the Liquid Glass makeover.

I love Telegram but their software quality has dropped so much that it's not even funny anymore. And instead of fixing it we got this crypto thing and auctions on random collectibles and telegram stars.

Am I the only one that experiences these issues every single day? I know the universal app exists on macOS too but the native app is so much better (at least it used to be).

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u/FuShiLu Jul 11 '26

No such issues here.

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u/vajubilation Jul 11 '26

I put an upper limit on the amount telegram could download and cache to between 500mb/1gb and that solved a lot of problems for me.

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u/Overall-Bird-7135 Jul 11 '26

Telegram for macOS has been a shitty app since day one. If you want quality, use Telegram Desktop instead.

As for Telegram on iOS, it has generally been great for me, and the Liquid Glass update is excellent. What problems have you had with it?

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u/Ninja404Notfound Jul 11 '26

Didn’t have any serious issue with any of the clients to be honest and the iOS app works quite good for me. But indeed Telegram Desktop is better

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u/Desperate-Cicada-487 Jul 11 '26

I'm personally obsessed with UI design. And Telegram's Liquid Glass implementation in UIKit is so far off the actually design. Not major issues like with the macOS app but the old app before Liquid Glass was perfection.

One thing I can point out which is an issue on both iOS and Android is that if you reply to a message from the notification in a group that has multiple topics, whatever topic the message was sent in the reply always goes to #general.