Popular instant messaging service Telegram is celebrating its seventh anniversary today with some great news for its users. Starting today, Telegram will let users make video calls using its app, which is a long-awaited feature for those using the messaging service.
According to an official blog post, the team behind Telegram decided to implement video calls this year mainly because more people are now using “face-to-face communication” to talk to friends or work from home during the pandemic.
The company notes that the video call feature is still considered an alpha version, but it can already be used by anyone with the latest version of Telegram installed.
There’s not much you need to know before using Telegram video calls, as the feature works similar to FaceTime or any other video calling app. Once you open the latest version of the Telegram app, you can simply tap the user profile and then select the video call option. According to Telegram, video calls are all protected with end-to-end encryption.
While the update with video calls was already available on Android since this morning, the Telegram team complained that Apple took a long time to review the latest version of the app — which was only approved and released on the App Store moments ago.
Here’s the original statement from Telegram criticizing Apple’s relationship with developers, which has already been removed from its website:
The Telegram platform now has over 400 million users with an app that is one of the 10 most downloaded messaging apps in the world.
You can download Telegram Messenger for free on the iOS App Store.
Author: Filipe Espósito.
Source: 9TO5Mac
