If it stays the same after a few seconds, then there is probably an issue with your network connection. Clock icon – When you see the clock icon in Telegram, it means that the message is pending.

Here’s a quick look at them and their explanation: Telegram shows two types of checks in personal conversation. We’ll look at what the different checks mean in the case of an individual conversation and a group chat. Of course, if you think you can share the information of those channels via Screenshots, you are wrong, because this kind of channels does not let to the user to make a screenshot of what appear on the secret channels.Let’s get to the fine print. After this time has elapsed it will disappear as if it had never existed.

The person who sends the message have the option to program the time the message is going to remain on the receiver’s screen. This function was designed to make disappear the message that was sent, within a period of time determined by the issuer. In addition to person-to-person encryption, another advantage offered by Telegram is self-destruction. Other advantage that secret chats offers in that messages can’t be forwarded to other chats or groups. Once the conversation is deleted, the information will be lost forever, since it will not be hosted at any time in the cloud and will not reach the Telegram server. This means that messages only are going to be stored on the device that was used to write it and on those to which it has been sent. When someone uses the “secret” setting, the conversation will go into “person-to-person” mode, better known as end-to-end encryption.

Now all you have to do is select the contact you want to start the secret chat with and start typing.

After than that, the list of contacts you have available will be displayed.

Once the menu is displayed, you must select the option “new secret chat”.

Second step will be to display the main menu, which is the one on the left side of the screen and is represented by three horizontal lines.

To create a new secret chat you just need to run Telegram from the device you want to use (Tablet, Smartphone o PC).

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