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A Guide to Telegram Stories

2025-06-24

A Guide to Telegram Stories

Summary

Telegram's Story feature offers users a rich sharing experience, allowing interaction with friends through images and videos. This feature not only supports personalized settings but also provides additional privileges for Premium users. Below is a detailed introduction to its features.

Creating Stories

  • Capture or Select Content: Users can take a photo or video, or choose existing content from their gallery.
  • Add Text Captions: You can add text captions to your stories to enhance content expression.
  • Mention Others: By using the @ username, you can mention other users in your stories.
  • Customize Expiration Time: Users can set the expiration time for their stories, controlling content visibility.
  • Archive Feature: Stories can be archived or unarchived for easy management.
  • Profile Save: Published stories can be saved to your personal profile for easy viewing.
  • Custom Emojis: Users can add custom emojis to their stories to increase engagement.
  • View Permissions Settings: You can set who can view your stories to protect privacy.
  • Forward and Share: Stories support forwarding and sharing features, facilitating interaction with more people.
  • Device Restrictions: Stories can only be posted on mobile devices; the PC version is limited to viewing.

Viewing Stories

  • Story Display: Stories published by your contacts are visible at the top of the interface, making it easy to keep up with friends' updates.
  • Profile Page: Your profile page will display both published and archived stories.
  • Hide Stories: You can choose to hide stories from specific contacts, but you cannot hide all stories simultaneously (you need to hide them individually or remove contacts one by one).
  • Reply Feature: Users can reply privately to stories, increasing interactivity.
  • Missing Stories Prompt: If you've updated Telegram but don't see any stories, it might be because your contacts haven't posted any.

Premium User Privileges

  • Priority Display: Stories from Premium users will be displayed with priority.
  • Incognito Mode: Provides an option to view stories in incognito mode.
  • Permanent View History: You can permanently view the viewing history of your stories.
  • Expiration Options: You can set the expiration time for stories.
  • Gallery Save: Stories can be directly saved to your gallery.
  • Longer Captions: Allows for longer text captions, enhancing content expression.
  • Link and Formatting Support: Links and other formatting can be inserted into text captions; this feature is unavailable to non-Premium users.
  • Story Posting Limit: You can post 100 stories per day; non-Premium users are limited to 3.

With the features outlined above, Telegram Stories provide users with a brand-new social sharing platform, enhancing the interactive experience.