Telegram’s revamped media editor provides a blur device and extra textual content choices

Telegram’s newest replace consists of an overhauled media editor outfitted with a bunch of latest instruments to embellish — or conceal — elements of your picture or movies. In an update on its blog, Telegram says it’s introducing a brand new blur device that permits you to block out sure areas of a photograph or video, permitting you to cover delicate data, or blur the faces of passersby who seem within the background.

To make the blurred portion of your photograph mix in, Telegram says you need to use the eyedropper device to match the colour of the blur brush to your picture. Additionally, Telegram’s including a approach to change the scale, font, and background of textual content (kind of like Instagram or Snapchat) when including it to images or movies.

It says its revamped drawing instruments “dynamically change width” relying on how briskly you’re drawing and mechanically smooths out strains. Telegram additionally added a approach to shortly add shapes, comparable to rectangles, circles, arrows, stars, and chat bubbles by tapping the “plus” icon within the editor. And if you happen to don’t need your recipient to see what you’re sending instantly, now you can apply a spoiler impact that provides a “shimmering layer” to a picture or video that hides its contents till your recipient faucets it.

Outside of picture enhancing instruments, Telegram’s newest replace consists of new storage choices that allow you to mechanically take away cached knowledge in non-public chats, teams, and channels after a sure time period, all whereas excluding the chats of your selecting. While Telegram beforehand allow you to clear your cache throughout all chats, this could make it simpler to unlock house mechanically with out affecting vital conversations. It’s introducing a helpful new pie chart as properly, which exhibits how a lot storage various kinds of information, like movies, paperwork, music, and images, are taking over.

There are additionally another new settings that mean you can select profile photos for contacts that solely you’ll see — good if in case you have a sure unflattering image you’d prefer to be reminded of every time somebody messages you. You may even counsel profile photos for particular contacts, which they will then swap out in the event that they like what you’ve chosen. And if you happen to already restrict the visibility of your profile image to your contacts solely, Telegram now provides you the choice to set a public profile image that everybody can see. On the opposite hand, now you can set the visibility of your profile image to “nobody” if you happen to don’t need anybody on the app to see your image, not even your contacts.