Telegram’s latest update went live on iOS on Friday, 12 August 2022, after the company’s CEO, Pavel Durov, claimed that Apple was preventing its release “without explanation”.<\/p>\n
Durov has now revealed<\/a><\/strong> that Apple had held up the update as it wanted a specific emoji feature removed.<\/p>\n “After extensive media coverage of my previous post, Apple got back to us with a demand to water down our pending Telegram update by removing Telemoji \u2014 higher quality vector-animated versions of the standard emoji,” he said.<\/p>\n Durov described Apple’s request as “puzzling”, adding that the new emoji feature would have “significantly enriched their ecosystem”.<\/p>\n The update \u2014 excluding the Telemoji feature \u2014 was released on iOS on Friday, 12 August, and features a range of other emoji improvements<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Telegram’s Premium plan \u2014 which South Africans can subscribe to for R89.99 a month \u2014 now lets users upload customised emojis.<\/p>\n Standard users can only see custom emojis and use them in saved messages.<\/p>\n Telegram has also updated the GIF and sticker panel in its iOS app and added the ability for Premium users to limit who can send them voice and video messages.<\/p>\n Apple wanted Telegram’s Telemoji feature removed from the update before rolling it out to iOS devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":456559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[605,34483,691,49609,23753,80593],"class_list":["post-456557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-emojis","tag-ios","tag-pavel-durov","tag-telegram","tag-telemoji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read: Facebook testing end-to-end encryption in Messenger<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"