In transient: Telegram has introduced a Premium subscription for its 700 million month-to-month lively users. Although no official pricing was revealed, areas the place the tier is now dwell suggests the worth is between $5-$6/pm, giving subscribers entry to almost a dozen unique options. The tier arrives as a part of an app replace, which additionally brings numerous fixes and optimizations.
It was inevitable for a service as large as Telegram to launch a subscription tier. While announcing the 700 million month-to-month lively users milestone, the messaging firm revealed Telegram Premium and all the options it’s going to unlock for subscribers.
First up is the bigger 4GB file add dimension, which doubles the restrict obtainable to plain users. There will likely be no restriction/throttling on obtain speeds, with file downloads now depending on a consumer’s bandwidth. Telegram’s premium tier additionally will increase limits for a number of options contained in the app, together with greater chat folders, skill to observe extra channels, extra pinned chats, and assist for as much as 4 consumer accounts.
Moreover, Premium subscribers can convert voice messages to textual content, set animated profile photos, change the default chat folder, and get entry to distinctive reactions, stickers and premium app icons. They’ll additionally get a sponsor-free, no adverts expertise within the app, alongside a premium badge showing subsequent to their identify.
As for normal enhancements included in Telegram’s app replace, customary and premium users can stay up for higher admin controls for Public Groups, with admins now in a position to set be part of requests and approve new members, a function already obtainable for Private Groups. For authenticity, a verification badge will now seem subsequent to public figures and organizations.
In phrases of platform-specific enhancements, Telegram’s Android users are getting iOS-like Chat Previews, alongside higher high quality in audio and video messages, improved controls for saving media to gallery, and various app icons.
iOS users, in the meantime, will see an animated progress bar when sending giant information externally, as effectively as smoother 120fps animations. Telegram’s newest replace, that is now rolling out step by step, additionally brings over 100 fixes and optimizations to the app.
