If you are a privacy obsessed or if you do not want anyone to discover your conversations or text messages, then the recommendation will be to create secret chats on Telegram. This messaging platform is one of the few that allows you to create and use secret chats in which to send and receive text messages and much more privately, something that cannot be done in other competing apps such as WhatsApp.
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Telegram is a messaging application that is precisely characterized by its security and privacy. It currently has more than 200 million active users. One of the best features of Telegram is the ability to send any type of data without size limits. And last but not least, Telegram is the safest chat application because it uses symmetric 256-bit AES encryption, 2048-bit RSA encryption and secure Diffie-Hellman key exchange..
Telegram raises security and privacy to unknown limits for many users. For example we are used to taking screenshots of chats, however, in the event that you use a secret Telegram Chat, your correspondent will not be able to take screenshots. You can also activate the self-destruct function of messages, which will make the messages that you send through the chat be automatically deleted after a certain time set by the user.
Any of the Telegram users will be able to invite a person to a secret chat. What makes these chats secret are the following four characteristics:
- Using end-to-end encryption
- Tracking left on Telegram server after deletion.
- Option to use self-destruction.
- Do not allow message forwarding.
How to create and use a secret chat on Telegram from iPhone:
- Open the Telegram app and click on the icon in the form of a pen..
- This will give you access to a new screen where you will have to select the option: New Secret Chat .
- Select from the list, the contact with whom you want to start the secret chat..
- To configure self-destructing messages in Telegram you must click on the clock icon located in the text editor box
- This will expose a carousel in which you will have to indicate the seconds you want the message to be available for reading and click on the Done option.
- From this moment on, you can exchange messages through the secret Telegram chat and check how
How to create and use a secret chat on Telegram from Android:
- Access your Telegram app and click on the icon with three horizontal stripes in the upper left of the screen.
- This will cause a menu to be displayed in which you will have to select the option: New secure chat .
- Now you will be shown a screen with your contact list. Here you will have to select the user with whom you want to chat privately.
- Once inside the chat, click on the icon in the form of three vertical points in the upper right corner to select the option: Set self-destruction from the menu.
- Finally, you only have to select the seconds you want your message to be destroyed and click on the Done button.
- From this moment on, your chat, in addition to being secret, will also self-destruct. All messages sent will be self-destructing.
