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<p>Today's update brings <strong>Profile Videos</strong> along with improved <strong>People Nearby</strong> features, unlimited file sharing with up to <strong>2 Gigabytes</strong> per file, <strong>mini-thumbnails</strong> for your chat list and notifications, <strong>group stats</strong>, and much more.</p>
<p>You can now upload a <strong>video</strong> to your profile – and choose any frame you like for your static profile picture in chats. Capture yourself in action, or wink and wave at people like you're in a magical picture from <em>Harry Potter</em>.</p>
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<p>Same as with any videos you upload, our <ahref="https://telegram.org/blog/video-editor-gifs">media editor</a> will help you <strong>enhance quality</strong>– or decorate yourself with <strong>animated stickers</strong>.</p>
<p>As your mood changes, you can quickly <strong>switch back</strong> to a previous profile photo or video by tapping <em>‘Set as Main’</em>. Great for rewinding time and staying young forever.</p>
<p>Speaking of the media editor, any photo or video you take with the <strong>front-facing camera</strong> now has a <strong>soften skin</strong> option in the media editor. But you don't need it to look fabulous, you already <strong>are</strong> fabulous.</p>
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<h3><aclass="anchor"name="improved-people-nearby"href="#improved-people-nearby"><iclass="anchor-icon"></i></a>Improved People Nearby</h3>
<p>Profile videos make <strong>meeting new people</strong> a dozen times more interesting, and we've beefed up the <ahref="https://telegram.org/blog/new-profiles-people-nearby">People Nearby</a> section for the occasion. </p>
<p>When people contact you via the People Nearby section, you will see <strong>how far away</strong> they are. And when you start a chat with someone nearby, Telegram will suggest a <strong>greeting sticker</strong> to break the ice. Luckily, all our stickers are extroverts.</p>
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<p>Now that people are carefully emerging into this brave new world, it's time to make friends and <del>repopulate the earth</del> compare your sticker collections. Head over to <em>Contacts > Find People Nearby</em> and try tapping on <em>’Make myself visible’</em>.</p>
<p>Ever wondered whether the incoming picture is just another meme or that selfie you've been waiting for? Get an idea of what media is in a message right away thanks to the new <strong>chat list thumbnails</strong>.</p>
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<p>The new thumbnails also appear in <strong>notifications</strong> and <strong>message search results</strong>. Never lose a cat photo again.</p>
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<p>Speaking of previews, you can <ahref="https://telegram.org/blog/unread-replace-2x#and-three-more-on-android">hold on a profile picture in the chat list</a> to <strong>preview messages</strong> without opening the chat. This feature is from <ahref="https://telegram.org/evolution#june-2018">2018</a>, but we had a dream in which a talking squid told us to mention it here.</p>
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<h3><aclass="anchor"name="filter-new-chats-from-non-contacts"href="#filter-new-chats-from-non-contacts"><iclass="anchor-icon"></i></a>Filter New Chats from Non-Contacts</h3>
<p>Thanks to <strong>People Nearby</strong> and groups with up to <strong>200,000 members</strong>, you can always find someone to chat with. Public figures sometimes have the opposite problem and may wish to <strong>tone down</strong> the attention they receive — we've got this covered too.</p>
<p>If you're getting too many messages from non-contacts, try the new switch in <em>Privacy & Security</em> settings to automatically <strong>archive and mute new chats</strong> from people <strong>not in your contacts</strong>. You can access these chats anytime from the <em>Archive</em> folder and bring them back to the main chat list in a tap.</p>
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<p>Owners of <strong>large groups</strong> with over 500 members can now view beautiful, <strong>detailed graphs</strong> about their activity and growth. Group stats also show a list of <strong>top members</strong> by number of messages and average message length. </p>
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<p>By the way, the minimum number of subscribers to get <ahref="https://telegram.org/blog/folders">Channel Stats</a> has been reduced to 500 as well. <imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F8E89.png"width="20"height="20"alt="🎉"/> We're planning to roll out access to group stats for admins of all groups with <strong>100 members</strong> or more in the near future.</p>
<p>On Android, the <strong>music player</strong> has been redesigned with <strong>sleek new icons</strong> and an <strong>expandable track list</strong>. Tap the button on the left to control looping, shuffling and to reverse the track order so your playlist can moonwalk with you. </p>
<p>The message input bar will grow <strong>smoothly</strong> as you type a long message. And the video editor now allows <strong>cropping and rotating videos</strong>– to help you hide any evidence you were filming vertically. </p>
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<h3><aclass="anchor"name="multiple-accounts-on-telegram-desktop"href="#multiple-accounts-on-telegram-desktop"><iclass="anchor-icon"></i></a>Multiple Accounts on Telegram Desktop</h3>
<p>Telegram lets you stay signed in on <strong>3 accounts</strong> from <strong>different phone numbers</strong> without logging out. Our mobile users have been enjoying this feature <ahref="https://telegram.org/evolution#december-2017">since 2017</a>, and today it's coming to the multi-platform <ahref="https://desktop.telegram.org">Telegram Desktop</a>.</p>
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<p>As always, this doesn't require an active connection to your phone –<ahref="https://telegram.org/apps">all our apps</a> are completely <strong>self-sufficient</strong>.</p>
<p>Our animated emoji army keeps growing (note to self: build a bigger barracks). To get one of these <imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F9187.png"width="20"height="20"alt="👇"/> in a chat, simply send a message with a single emoji – and watch it jump to life.</p>
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<p>Be careful, one of them bites. And we're not allowed to tell you which one.</p>
<p>If you're looking for something more interactive, try sending a single <imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/E29ABD.png"width="20"height="20"alt="⚽️"/> in any chat to see if you <strong>score a goal</strong>:</p>
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<h3><aclass="anchor"name="and-one-more-thing"href="#and-one-more-thing"><iclass="anchor-icon"></i></a>And One More Thing</h3>
<p>Since <ahref="https://telegram.org/evolution#january-2014">2014</a>, Telegram users have been sharing files up to <strong>1,5 GB</strong> each, which happens to be 93 times larger than <strong>16 MB</strong> (which is a <em>totally random number</em>, we have no idea what it could possibly mean).</p>
<p>From now on, you can send unlimited numbers of media and files of any kind – up to <strong>2 GB</strong> each.</p>
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<p>And that‘s it for today. We're now in the middle of the year — with <ahref="https://telegram.org/blog">eight major updates</a> behind us and long-awaited features just around the corner. Stay tuned!</p>
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