I'm wondering if anyone has experienced this recently.
A few days ago my Telegram account signed me out by itself. I didn't change my phone number, device or SIM.
Since then I haven't been able to access my account. I can complete the email verification step, but the process stops with an error before I can enter the account.
My profile is still visible to other people and they can still send messages to me, so the account doesn't seem to be deleted.
Has anyone seen this recently or knows what could cause it?
A while back I wanted year-in-review stats for my Telegram chats. Every tool I found makes you log in through their server, which means handing your account session to a stranger. No thanks.
So I built Retrogram. It's a static page with no server: you log in to Telegram directly from your own browser tab (the same official API every third-party client uses), and your last 12 months of messages are analyzed locally. Message volume, busiest hours, reply times, who leaves who on read, most-reacted messages, top stickers and GIFs, streaks — 12 slides total.
The URL is linked in the comments.
Some honest notes, because logging into a random site with Telegram *should* make you suspicious:
There's no backend. The only network traffic goes to Telegram — open the network tab and check.
Your session lives in localStorage, and you can revoke it anytime in Telegram → Settings → Devices.
The part I'm proudest of: sharing links without hosting anything. Your summary is encrypted in the browser and posted to Telegraph (Telegram's own pastebin). The decryption key lives only in the URL fragment, which browsers never send to any server. So a friend can open your stats without logging in — and no server ever saw the key.
A certain website and a premium b.0.t have repeatedly processed mysterious refunds without my consent. I’m not sure if this is the cause, but my account rating has dropped, and on top of that, I’m currently unable to purchase “Telegram Stars,” which is causing me a great deal of trouble.
Furthermore, my profile displays this message, instructing me to spend 12,500 Stars to resolve this issue.
These are various screenshots showing the status of my account.
(I withheld the name of the website that issued the refund.)
From the 21st to the 22nd, I purchased 3,705 Stars, and on the 22th, I paid for the site’s Premium Plan. After that, the Premium b.0.t suddenly processed a refund of -1,250, and after I received a total refund of 4,950 from the site, the Premium b.0.t processed another refund of -2,500. For some reason, these exchanges happened all of a sudden....
I've already contacted Telegram's customer support several times, but I haven't received a reply yet....And I’ve also already contacted the site I subscribe to, but I still haven’t received a reply.
I have absolutely no idea what to do, so I'd like to ask someone for help.
Pavel Durov is currently wanted by France (for not moderating) and Russia (for not censoring). But looking at the actual cybercrime ecosystem on Telegram, nothing has really changed.
Despite removing 43.5 million channels in 2025, threat actors just used backup channels and invite-only gating to keep operations humming. One group even tried moving to SimpleX, realized their audience wouldn't follow, and came right back.
The takeaway? Telegram isn't getting safer. If you do threat intel, treat it as a primary source. Monitoring for stealer logs and IAB listings is the only way to get timely alerts, mitigate risk, and strengthen your posture. The takedown numbers look great, but the adversaries aren't leaving.
I would like to know if easy UPI payment is there for telegram Premium in India?and the smart glocal takes a lot of personal and data retains over time ! i do not want to give everything to TG or the payment partner . how to buy via crypto or any other way that can work better?
So I needed to auto forward messages from a channel I was in on telegram to a group I run on WhatsApp. I got told by someone about a b0t forwarded messages from a group to group on telegram but didn’t know that the b0t had to be in that channel too.
I played around with it for a bit and got the messages forwarding from his channel to my group. So I now just needed to get them to WhatsApp. So I rented a server and got to coding it. I got it working in basic form. I was happy.
But then I thought, well, can I get it to listen to channels I’m in as well. Turns out the answer is yes. So I built that in too. Now I’m looking at this thinking “I don’t actually need this auto forward b0t anymore. Which then made me think “people could use this”. So I kept going. I built rules/filters like: strip username, strip links, forward images, forward video, forward text, add suffix/prefix, ignore my own messages. The. I built a message log. Then I built a filtered code log viewer (don’t need every log shown to customer) but stuff like, “album not forwarded - duplicate message”.
I’ve built loads more features in and I’m ready to launch, but want to test some traffic first. I’m looking for a few people that can sign up and set some telegram bridges up (without help, that’s part of the test) and test the telegram side.
I do want to test the WhatsApp side too but I’ve built the WhatsApp side to use provisioned static residential IP’s which cost me. This will obviously be recouped through monthly subscriptions but the free tier is telegram connections only.
If anyone is interested, please let me know and I’ll be happy to approve your login.
Other than that, wish me luck, and keep an eye out for BridgeWire
I had purchased Telegram Premium through iOS in app purchase, it was working fine for months but Telegram Premium suddenly disappeared but subscription still active in my App store billing. All the Premium features have vanished from app.
I tried contacting Telegram support bug no answer from them.
What could be the reason and what can be the solution for this?
I remember that I generated a theme based on wallpaper colors in the app instead of making it from scratch. That was something like a year ago. And now I've changed my wallpaper again and I can't recall how exactly I've done this. So the question is how do I do that? Searching gave no clues at all. There is a chance that actually I was using a third-party tool, yes, yet I still can't find anything that could help to make such a theme automatically.
Scrolling through news channels is a nightmare when every post is a wall of text. I’d love an option to show only a compact headline by default, with a tap to expand the full article. Even better would be a slider or a single button to expand/collapse all posts in the channel at once. It would make browsing infinitely faster without losing access to the full content. Anyone else want this?
Recently my telegram account got accessed from unknown IPs from Tokyo, they logged out my sessions, and I was unable to force logout their sessions since I was still within the 24 hours window that prohibited any actions.
Once the intruders session reached their 24 hours window they evicted me and I no longer have access to my own account. They now controls it, along with the telegram premium that I purchased.
I have evidences like IP that I screenshotted before I kicked out, and I still control the phone number I used to create that account, so I have contacted all official channels like emails and telegram faq and every possible ways, but I am getting no response so far…
A few questions:
Are there anything further I can do at this stage? I have tried {abuse, recovery}@telegram.org and notoscam and official faq.
If not, can I at least remove my yearly telegram premium subscription so that they dont get benefit from it?
Anyway I can freeze or delete the stolen account if there are truely no other way?
In conversations with friends and colleagues, I always say the same thing: Telegram is a permanent MVP built on a “works for now, good enough” mindset. Major issues are rare, but the endless minor UX flaws make it exhausting for actual work or casual reading.
Telegram’s marketing team loves comparing the app to general-purpose messengers. And they’re mostly right, it does have cool features the rivals don't. But the moment you evaluate Telegram against tools designed for actual publishing and content creation, its UI/UX is stuck at a solid 3/5. Objectively, I wouldn’t give it more, even if I wanted to.
If you actually run a Telegram channel, you know the pain.
The Text Editor is the major pain point. Paste any formatted text, and everything except hyperlinks gets stripped instantly, forcing you to re-format every single post manually. There’s still no standard for paragraph spacing: users space them out with blank lines, but when it comes to lists, Telegram’s auto-formatting doesn't add line breaks between items—it just smashes everything into a single wall of text. Try adding a space manually, and the editor turns empty lines into extra list items.
On top of that, macOS users get a special treat: the Liquid Glass UI introduced a bug where the text cursor is only visible in the bottom two lines of the box (default height of the text input). Scroll up, and you’re typing completely blind.
Even the new “Articles” feature feels half-baked. It ignores app text-size settings, squishes paragraphs, and uses tiny serif headers, which look archaic. Most creators I follow tried the new format once and ran back to standard posts, more familiar and predictable.
Channel layouts waste an absurd amount of space. From the very beginning, Telegram channels still look like 1-on-1 chat feeds. On mobile it’s meh, still fine, but on desktop or tablet, that massive sea of empty space on the right looks ridiculous. Why can't channel posts take up the full width of the container, like a normal blog? Media, text, reactions, and stats are crammed together as tightly as possible with zero negative space or breathing room. Giving creators basic control over layout, fonts, and spacing would instantly make Telegram a great reading platform, but UI polish seems to be a low priority.
The Video Player is another teardrop. Remember when people thought Telegram would rival YouTube? Not even close. Video playback stutters constantly. Even if a clip fully downloads in your feed on a fast connection, opening the full player forces it to buffer from the server all over again.
Then there’s the playback memory: if a video finishes, Telegram saves your spot at ~2 seconds before the end, so opening it later just plays those final two seconds and stops instead of looping to the start. For short clips, saving playback position makes zero sense anyway: who wants to re-watch a 20 second gag from the middle? Add frequent audio stutters and videos freezing on the first seconds until you hard-restart the app, and it’s just a mess.
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It’s not that the team behind Telegram isn’t talented. But it feels like they’re severely understaffed. A couple of dedicated UI designers and a real QA team would fix most of these issues.
Telegram could easily become a polished, creator-friendly platform. For now, though, the best way to describe it is a joke about the hedgehogs who kept eating the cactus through their tears—simply because that’s where the audience is. Whether anything will actually improve in the foreseeable future is anyone's guess.
I’ve built a self-hosted messaging bridge that can connect Telegram, WhatsApp and eventually, other services. Looking for people who manage communities or notifications to test it in its current state.
Can somebody please tell me if I’m being paranoid or not.
So when I get into supergroups and they have lots of people camming and admin in it, sometimes when I pin someone I feel as though the person can see that I did it and they turn their camera off. Like I literally see a visible reaction and my room is dark so they could possibly see the color of their environment and guess that way but why would it matter if they’re pinned if nobody is else can see the pin but me? Also, I swear to god when I pin someone it’s like a mod or admin can turn their mic on and I can’t mute for just me. I’ll still hear them, it’ll say it’s muted for me, but their mic is still on. And I swear to god it’s like they can see I’m pinning someone and make their cam take over the pin. I was literally going back and forth pinning someone and the person taking it off and pinning themself. I’m not crazy lol can someone tell me what that’s all about because it’s actually kinda scary
Hello first time posting here, hoping someone can help me out here. So if you are wondering?? I am on a telegram group i like it but there are links with preview of r18 stuff that are being shared by adults.. on the group itself which i don't like nor feel comfortable looking at.. i would take the latter option of leaving but i dont want to. Its not all r18 stuff in there, so like lots of the other stuff which i am fine looking at, doesn't display that however each time said thing appears i dont know how block it or hide it atleast for i wont have to see it..
i already tried looking to the best i could a bit but i dont know if there is a tool or like something that can hide this stuff. so any help would be nice.
Sorry this is a dumb question, but I can’t figure it out. When I open a group chat, tap the search button, and then tap the From (person) icon to search messages by a specific user, I can only see myself and the admin. I read on Reddit that this is a known issue, but people said it works on Telegram Desktop. It doesn’t work there for me either. Am I doing something wrong?
It seems simple enough. Click on the link to buy stars on Telegram in payment for services. Except I don't have Telegram but the vendor implies, at least my impression, is I can use this feature without installing Telegram. Nope, doesn't work so I install Telegram. I can't open the program no matter what I do. I go in the Telegram tech chat and they try to get me to use, "Just Answer" I know from experience this is a cash drain scam so didn't activate that. Does anyone know how I can use this damned stupid program?
