Telegram adds one-time voice and video messages, upgraded search and more features

Telegram Messenger lately added a bunch of new features to the app including upgraded Saved Messages, one-time voice and video messages and more, upgraded design for shared contacts and more.

To begin with, the updated Saved Messages now lets you:

• view saved messages by chat or as a list
• organize saved messages with tags
• use the new 'Saved' tab in Shared Media to access messages you saved from any particular chat.

With the new "View as Chats" mode, you can see a list of chats from which you've forwarded messages to Saved Messages. Additionally, you can pin any of these chats to the top.

Telegram has also added the option to add multiple tags to your Saved Messages so that you can quickly filter them in Search.

Next up, this update adds a new 'Saved' tab in the shared media section, which contains any messages from that chat that you've forwarded to your Saved Messages. To open a search in any chat, tap and hold on its title.

Telegram has expanded the View-Once setting to voice and video messages. View once messages can only be played one time before they are automatically deleted. To record a view-once message, hold down and then swipe up to lock recording, then tap the view-once icon before sending.

Further, you can now pause while recording any voice or video message and then resume recording later. To pause, swipe up to lock recording and tap the pause button. To resume, simply tap the microphone or camera icon again.

For Telegram Premium users, this update adds the ability to select who can send them messages - either Everyone or My Contacts and Premium Users. With the latter option enabled, users who are not your contacts or don't have a Premium subscription can't message you but can reply if you message them first.

Furthermore, video stories will now load 4x faster and Premium users can view video stories in higher quality.

For more details, head over to the Telegram blog.