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<p>Nobody will miss 2022, but this update offers some pleasant reasons to remember it: <strong>media with spoiler effects</strong>, new ways to <strong>save space on your device</strong>, <strong>new drawing tools</strong>, <strong>suggested profile pictures</strong>, and more.</p>
<p>Telegram supports <ahref="https://telegram.org/blog/reactions-spoilers-translations#spoilers">spoiler formatting</a> to hide any text in messages. Now you can also cover <strong>photos and videos</strong> with a shimmering layer that <strong>blurs the image</strong>. It will take your recipients one tap to break the spell and see the content.</p>
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<p>In the attachment menu, select one or more items, tap <imgclass="icon"src="/file/464001466/3/TUYKwGzdaIM.984/c472ac8f01ebdd57c8"alt="Menu Android"> or <imgclass="icon"src="/file/464001448/2/VHd-rEO8AMI.2898/1d9c403b5d0d54dbb0"alt="Menu iOS"> and choose <em>'Hide with Spoiler'</em>.</p>
<p>Telegram can take up next to <strong>no space</strong> on your device. You can remove media and documents from your phone's storage and <strong>re-download</strong> them from your Telegram cloud at any time. <ahref="https://telegram.org/evolution#december-2015">For years</a>, users could set a <strong>maximum cache size</strong> or <strong>auto-remove unused items</strong> after a period of time.</p>
<p>With this update, you can add <strong>separate auto-remove settings</strong> for cached media from <em>Private Chats</em>, <em>Groups</em>, and <em>Channels</em>– with <strong>exceptions</strong> for <strong>specific chats</strong>. </p>
<p>The new <strong>pie charts</strong> help visualize what's taking up space, and <strong>dedicated tabs</strong> for <em>Media</em>, <em>Files</em> and <em>Music</em> let you clear the largest items in just a few taps.</p>
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<p>On iOS, we've greatly reduced the time it takes the app to calculate your cache size. Android users are in luck – their app was already doing this at top speed.</p>
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<p>Check out the new options in <em>Settings > Data and Storage > Storage Usage</em>.</p>
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<h3><aclass="anchor"name="new-drawing-and-text-tools"href="#new-drawing-and-text-tools"><iclass="anchor-icon"></i></a>New Drawing and Text Tools</h3>
<p>Telegram's already powerful media editor has been fully redesigned. Drawing tools <strong>dynamically change width</strong> based on drawing speed and automatically <strong>smooth your lines</strong>.</p>
<p>There is a new <strong>blur tool</strong> to redact sensitive data (or photobombers) – and <strong>5</strong> high-precision ways to <strong>choose colors</strong>, including the <strong>Eyedropper tool</strong>.</p>
<p>When adding <strong>text</strong> to photos or videos, you can now change its <strong>size</strong>, <strong>font</strong>, and <strong>background</strong>. Adding <ahref="https://telegram.org/blog/custom-emoji#custom-animated-emoji">custom animated emoji</a> to text on images is available for <strong>all users</strong>, even if they don't have a <em>Telegram Premium</em> subscription.</p>
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<p>To quickly add <strong>shapes</strong> like <em>rectangles</em>, <em>circles</em>, <em>arrows</em>, <em>stars</em>, and <em>chat bubbles</em>, tap the <strong>“+”</strong> button. You can also hold the surface to fill the canvas with color – or to erase everything.</p>
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<p>In the coming updates, we plan to further refine the media editor interfaces and improve their performance.</p>
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<h3><aclass="anchor"name="profile-pictures-for-your-contacts"href="#profile-pictures-for-your-contacts"><iclass="anchor-icon"></i></a>Profile Pictures for Your Contacts</h3>
<p>When editing your contacts, you can <strong>choose a picture</strong> for them –<strong>only you</strong> will see it on their profile.</p>
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<p>If you have a good profile picture for your contact, you can <strong>suggest it to them</strong>. It will take them just two taps to add it to their profile.</p>
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<p>If you only allow certain users to see your profile photos, you can set a <strong>public picture</strong> for everyone else.</p>
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<p>This update also lets you achieve <strong>ultimate profile picture privacy</strong>: you can set visibility to <em>'Nobody'</em> and add some users or groups as <strong>exceptions</strong>.</p>
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<p>These settings are available in <em>Settings > Privacy and Security > Profile Photo</em>.</p>
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<h3><aclass="anchor"name="hiding-group-members"href="#hiding-group-members"><iclass="anchor-icon"></i></a>Hiding Group Members</h3>
<p>Tools like the <ahref="https://telegram.org/blog/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0#aggressive-anti-spam">aggressive anti-spam setting</a> help chat admins keep large groups clean – but some groups may also want to protect their members from unwanted personal messages.</p>
<p>Admins of groups with <strong>100+ members</strong> can now choose to <strong>hide the member list</strong>. This way, if people don't send messages to the group, only its admins will know they were there.</p>
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<h3><aclass="anchor"name="new-progress-animations-on-android"href="#new-progress-animations-on-android"><iclass="anchor-icon"></i></a>New Progress Animations on Android</h3>
<p>Smooth new animations have been added when <strong>jumping to a faraway reply</strong> in a busy chat and to other pages throughout the app. </p>
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<p>Premium users get <strong>10 new packs</strong> of <ahref="https://telegram.org/blog/custom-emoji#custom-animated-emoji">custom animated emoji</a> as a present from Telegram artists.</p>
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<p>Find these packs and more in the <imgclass="icon"src="/file/464001185/1258c/nmnB-OxNkic.3215/454103137b0918b572"alt="Emoji"><strong>emoji tab</strong> of your <imgclass="icon"src="/file/464001197/128f2/tWCI-lcUGug.2888/eba21ce9a2cb9ee89a"alt="Stickers"><strong>sticker panel</strong>.</p>
<p>We keep expanding our universe of <ahref="https://telegram.org/blog/chat-themes-interactive-emoji-read-receipts#interactive-emoji">interactive emoji</a>. To watch full-screen effects in sync with your chat partner, send a single <imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F8E85.png"width="20"height="20"alt="🎅"/><imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F8E84.png"width="20"height="20"alt="🎄"/><imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/E29883.png"width="20"height="20"alt="☃️"/><imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F9285.png"width="20"height="20"alt="💅"/><imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F97BF.png"width="20"height="20"alt="🗿"/><imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F8692.png"width="20"height="20"alt="🆒"/><imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09FA4AA.png"width="20"height="20"alt="🤪"/> in any <strong>1-on-1 chat</strong> and then tap on it.</p>
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<p><ahref="https://telegram.org/blog/topics-in-groups-collectible-usernames#topics-in-groups">Topics</a> are now available in <strong>all groups</strong>, regardless of size – giving <em>everyone</em> a new way to organize discussion.</p>
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