Telegram is a fairly popular instant messenger and an archive of WhatsApp. Although it started small, Telegram has grown rapidly over the last few years, mainly among teens, businesses, and the tech world. This is because its makers have been adding more functionalities to the platform, making it more appealing.
Some of these include flexibility, no limits on the number of participants for a channel, a maximum cap for groups, no cap on media transfer, automated bots, color/theme changes, disappearing messages, and secret chats. The best part is that Telegram makes most of these available on all platforms.
Telegram has clients for several platforms, including Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, Windows, and even a web version and Chrome browser extension! Thus, users can use the platform at their convenience. If you’re on a PC and trying to use Telegram on it, here’s how to set up things;
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How to Use Telegram on Windows, macOS, and Linux?
Installing and initializing Telegram on a PC is almost similar for all the available platforms. So, no worries, we’re trying out with a Windows PC. Here you go;
- Open any of your browsers and go to Telegram’s official website to download the app. Here’s a direct link to get them.
- Please select the relevant application based on your PC’s OS. We downloaded the Windows client since we’re demonstrating it on a Windows PC.
- After downloading, open the file to install.
- Opening it will ask for your phone number, which should be provided to make an OTP verification, thus finding your account.
- If you already have a Telegram app on your phone, you’ll get the OTP in your app through Telegram’s service notifications channel, which seems like a chat conversation.
- But if you’re registering for the first time, you’ll be getting an OTP to your phone directly; enter it to verify.
That’s it. All your chats from your primary client will be synched with the PC client. If you want to disconnect this, you can do so through your phone’s Telegram app. Tap on the hamburger menu at the top left corner to open your Profile, then go to Settings and Devices to see the linked PC client. Click on Terminate all other sessions to remove it.
