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Telegram Gains Better Reactions, Video Stickers, Interactive Emoji, and More

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Telegram has updated its iPhone and iPad app with several new features, including new easy-to-make video stickers, better reactions, interactive emoji, improved navigation between chats, and other additions and improvements.

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Telegram's video stickers have proven a popular feature on the chat platform, and in the latest version of the app, support has been added for stickers converted from regular videos.

This means creating detailed animated stickers no longer requires specialized software such as Adobe Illustrator if users want to make their own. For interested creators, Telegram has a video sticker manual with all the details.

Version 8.5.1 of the app also brings improved message reactions. Users can now press and hold a reaction to send a larger reaction, and reactions are now synchronized, so recipients see the animations in real time. In addition, reactions now have a read status.

There are also five new reactions that can optionally be sent as interactive emoji with synchronized fullscreen effects. They include smiling face with three hearts, mind-blown face, thinking face, swearing face, and hands clapping.

Meanwhile, navigating through chats in Telegram has been improved. When jumping through unread channels or moving between chats, users can now press and hold the "Back" button to return to a specific chat via a popup menu. Opening chats from forwarded messages, links, usernames, profiles, and so on also adds them to the menu.

Elsewhere, Telegram developers have improved call quality, added support for translation to Instant View pages (and bios on iOS), added the option to send silent messages from the sharing menu, and included new animations when tapping icons in the tab bar.

Telegram version 8.5.1 is available now on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.

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Love telegram, use it daily. Don't understand why in-line "tap back" reactions only work in individual messages and not in group messages, though. Minor annoyance.
 
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The key difference here is that Signal and iMessage both use end to end encryption by default. There is no other option. You must specifically create a "secure chat" on telegram for e2e. This is due to their legacy 1.0 protocol not being entirely replaceable by their e2e 2.0 protocol. I don't work there so I don't have fine grained detail into why but this generally means that some bits of telegram will always be less private. Not insecure but less private.
 
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Bustycat said:
Give us another reason aside from the mysterious E2EE.
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There's nothing mysterious about end to end encryption. It just means that from when the message leaves your phone to when it lands on the other person's phone it is encrypted. iMessage does this just like Signal.

The difference is, unless you select telegram's "Secure Chat" your message is encrypted from your phone to Telegram's servers and then from their servers to the other phone separately.

This means that if there is a bad actor inside telegram they can potentially read your messages. The same is not true of iMessage and Signal.
 
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mzeb said:
The key difference here is that Signal and iMessage both use end to end encryption by default. There is no other option. You must specifically create a "secure chat" on telegram for e2e. This is due to their legacy 1.0 protocol not being entirely replaceable by their e2e 2.0 protocol. I don't work there so I don't have fine grained detail into why but this generally means that some bits of telegram will always be less private. Not insecure but less private.
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You were confused with their MTProto 1.0 and 2.0. They are both not end-to-end encryption.
 
mzeb said:
There's nothing mysterious about end to end encryption. It just means that from when the message leaves your phone to when it lands on the other person's phone it is encrypted. iMessage does this just like Signal.

The difference is, unless you select telegram's "Secure Chat" your message is encrypted from your phone to Telegram's servers and then from their servers to the other phone separately.

This means that if there is a bad actor inside telegram they can potentially read your messages. The same is not true of iMessage and Signal.
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End-to-end encryption itself is well-defined, but how the services implement is a big deal.
 
Bustycat said:
You were confused with their MTProto 1.0 and 2.0. They are both not end-to-end encryption.
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MT2 does have the capability for E2E as I understand it. Did they implement it and not use it? I’ll have to dig a bit more…
 
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End-to-end encryption itself is well-defined, but how the services implement is a big deal.
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True, this is why Signal is open source. We can verify that they are doing the right things. Public scrutiny is the only way to be able to truly trust services like this in my mind.
 
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