Telegram is rolling out Tales for Premium customers

One month after the preliminary announcement, Telegram’The Story of s characteristic is rolling out to customers now. In accordance with the corporate, solely Premium subscribers can “presently” parcel Tales. All Telegram customers can view these short-term, auto-expiring picture and video statuses.

Tales look like accessible with Telegram model 9.7.0 for Android. The most recent replace to the app provides a + button on the high of your chat listing. Tapping this button will assist you to publish a Story, with Telegram permitting you so as to add captions and hyperlinks, and tag different customers. You get quite a lot of picture and video modifying instruments to type your Story.

Whereas you should utilize pre-shot pictures and movies in your Tales, Telegram additionally permits you to file dwell video concurrently utilizing the entrance and rear cameras. Relying in your settings, your Story will expire in 6, 12, 24 or 48 hours. Nevertheless, you may as well make Tales everlasting. You will should manually select which Tales will seem completely in your profile web page. Telegram provides you particular person privateness settings.

Talking of privateness, Telegram presents a bunch of privateness settings in your Tales. You may select to make the Story public or seen solely to your contacts, a choose variety of contacts, or Shut Pals. The “My Tales” part on the high of the hamburger menu on the left is the place you will discover your tales. Telegram presents two separate tabs right here: Saved and Archived. The second tab permits you to choose the Story that you simply wish to make everlasting.

At the moment, solely Telegram Premium customers can publish Tales

For viewers, Tales will seem in an expandable part on the high of the chat listing. Once more, you might have management over the Tales you see. Should you do not wish to see these updates from a sure person, you may simply block or cover them. As stated earlier, all Telegram customers can now view Tales posted by different customers. However solely folks with a Premium subscription can publish Tales, at the very least for now.

It is unclear when Telegram will convey this functionality to free customers. In the meantime, should you’re keen to pay the corporate for this characteristic, a $4.99 per 30 days subscription will get you much more. Telegram Premium presents bigger file uploads (as much as 4GB), quicker downloads, copying, as much as 20 public t.me hyperlinks, premium badges, customized app icons, ad-free expertise and lots of different perks. You may click on the button under to obtain the newest Telegram replace.

ELECTRONIC LOADING