Telegram now allows you to set any sound in your notifications

In a new update, Telegram introduced it’s letting customers set any sound as their notification tone. You can use brief audio information uploaded out of your cellphone and save voice messages as notification tones from a chat.

Telegram says it at the moment helps audio information and voice messages underneath 300KB and fewer than 5 seconds lengthy. You can assign a sound to particular chats or complete teams of chats from the Settings > Notifications and Sounds menu. If you don’t have a sound you need to use instantly, you may select from an array of choices, starting from a bell to Merlin the cat, accessible from Telegram’s Notification Sounds channel.

Aside from customized notification tones, Telegram has additionally rolled out customized mute durations. Previously, you could possibly solely mute notifications for one hour, eight hours, or two days, however the brand new replace provides you a lot extra choices. Now the characteristic is a little more sensible if you wish to pause notifications throughout a 30-minute drive, for instance, and even for a for much longer two-month interval in case you’re on an prolonged break. The replace consists of extra increments for the auto-delete timer, which routinely makes messages in a chat disappear at a selected time.

Telegram has additionally made some OS-specific adjustments, together with improved in-app translation on iOS that helps simply as many languages because the Android model of Telegram. The messaging app now allows you to change the dimensions of the participant window in picture-in-picture mode on Android, letting you employ pinching gestures to resize the window or hit the “X” button to shut the display.

Oh yeah, and there is new animated meals emoji, too, in case you’ve been longing to incorporate a hopping bag of popcorn or a syrupy stack of pancakes together with your messages.