Video Calls with up to 1000 Viewers on Telegram

Video Calls with up to 1000 Viewers, Video Playback Speed, Video Messages 2.0 and More

Group Video Calls 2.0

• Group Video Calls now support up to 1000 video viewers, as well as unlimited audio-only listeners.

• To start a Group Video Call, create a Voice Chat from the ⋮ menu in the profile of any group where you are an admin — then turn your video on.

Video Playback Speed

• Tap ⋯ in the media player to select 0.5, 1.5 or 2X playback speed while viewing a video.

Video Messages 2.0

• Enjoy higher resolution from video messages in your chats.

• Tap a video message to expand it.

• Rewind and fast forward video messages when they're paused.

• Pinch to zoom while recording a video message with the rear camera.

• Continue playing music while recording video messages.

• Tap once on the 'voice message' button to switch to video mode, then hold to record and release to send.

Message Sending Animations

• Send messages with improved animations­­ – your input text smoothly transforms into the message bubble as it flies into the chat.

Timestamps

• Add timestamps like '0:45' to video captions and replies to automatically create links that play the video from that specific moment.

• If a video caption includes a timestamp, hold on it to copy a link to that moment.

Screen Sharing with Sound

• Share your screen in 1-on-1 video calls, as well as group video calls.

• Audio from your device is included while sharing your screen in any video call.

• Swipe left or right to select a video source when turning on your camera in any video call.

and More

• Enable auto-delete in your chats to remove messages after 1 month (also 1 day or 1 week).

• Easily draw small details in the media editor – the brush now gets smaller as you zoom in.

More about this update:

https://telegram.org/blog/video-1000