Rich Text Editor, Communities, Ephemeral Messages in Groups, 350 Million GIFs

Enjoying the summer is overrated. Try our new update instead:

• Rich Text Editor: Write blogs, articles and long posts.
  • Add tables, inline media, lists, headings, quotes and more.
  • Use an intuitive visual editor optimized for mobile and desktop.
  • Generate text, formulas or tables with our privacy-conscious AI tools.
  • Send over 32,000 characters in a single message.

• Communities: Link several channels, groups, or bots together.
  • Join other chats in a community without an invite link.
  • Access all community chats from a single item in your chat list.
  • Control who can add more chats to your community.

• Ephemeral Messages in Groups: Get replies from bots that are only visible to you.
  • Send ephemeral commands to bots and receive private replies in the same chat.
  • Forget scrolling through AI summaries and greetings meant for other members.

• 350 million GIFs: New, faster search in the GIF panel.
  • Find high-quality GIFs optimized for Telegram (YMMV).
  • Make searches with complete privacy.
  • Enjoy the summer after all.

Rich Text Editor

We know you can barely express yourself in words. So today, we're giving you more GIFs an advanced text editor with support for headings, tables, lists, quotes and code blocks! It also lets you add photos and videos in the middle of a message.

Don't worry, the editor comes with an intuitive, visual interface — and you can even use our Cocoon-powered AI tools to generate “your” text with full privacy.

Like our rich formatting update for bots, the editor lets you send up to 32,768 characters in a single message. Show those machines what a human can do!

The Rich Text Editor is currently available to Telegram Premium users only. Why? Because otherwise, we'd have to call it the Poor Text Editor — and you don't want that.

Telegram Communities

Several groups, channels, and bots can now be linked together into communities around a shared topic. Community members can see its other chats and join them instantly. Starting a cult has never been easier!

Chats in a community can be Visible to all members or Hidden from everyone except community admins and members of that chat. Cult 101: Always keep a hidden recipe-sharing group for your High Priests.

Communities save space in your chat list. You can toggle whether a community appears as separate chats or as one chat that expands when you open it.

Communities are collaborative by default, allowing any member to add more chats — but you can restrict this in settings before your cultists add 47 cat groups. When adding chats is limited, you will see them as suggestions instead.

Ephemeral Bot Messages

With guest bot mode, you could already get information from bots in any chat. After today’s update, these messages will no longer clutter the group chat for everyone else.

Bots in groups can now send messages visible only to a specific person, such as greeting messages, private AI summaries, errors, confirmations, or menus with buttons.

Bots can send ephemeral messages at any time or in response to specific commands. These commands are highlighted in the bot menu with a special icon, and the resulting messages are visible only to the bot and the person who used them.

Bot developers can learn more about ephemeral messages here.

350 Million GIFs

Did we just say we were not giving you more GIFs? We lied. The GIF panel now lets you search over 350 million GIFs in 36 languages. The new search is powered by offline indexing of widely shared, publicly available GIFs with open-source AI models.

Unlike in all other messaging apps, your Telegram GIF searches are entirely private, don't rely on any third parties — and are now much faster.

That's it. Now go get an ice cream or something.

July 14, 2026
The Telegram Team