You'll be able to choose when a story expires – in 6, 12, 24, or 48 hours – or permanently display stories on your profile page, with individual privacy settings for each. Building on the success of Telegram's Video Messages, we're adding the option to post photos and videos taken by the front and the rear cameras simultaneously. In addition to making use of dozens of powerful photo and video-editing tools, you will be able to provide captions for your stories to add more context or links and tag other people.
It will be easy to hide Stories posted by any contact, moving them to the 'Hidden' list in your Contacts section instead of the main screen. Stories will be placed in an expandable section at the top of your chat list, which makes them easily accessible without taking away valuable space. You will be able to define who can see each of your stories with granular precision: Everyone, only your contacts (with exceptions), a few selected contacts, or a list of Close Friends. So we will be launching Stories soon – in the Telegram way: - Privacy. However, Telegram wouldn't be Telegram if we didn't listen to our users and didn't innovate on existing formats.
Initially, we were against this since Stories are already everywhere. More than half of all feature requests that we receive are related to Stories. For years, our users have been asking us to implement Stories in Telegram.
