Five years after removing its Wear OS app, Telegram is reviving support for Android smartwatches with its latest update.
Earlier this week, Telegram quietly released a new app for Apple Watch and, now, Wear OS is getting the same treatment. In its latest update, Telegram says that smart watch applications have arrived for both Apple Watch and Wear OS.
This brings the messaging app to the Pixel Watch and Galaxy Watch for the first time. when Telegram last had a Wear OS appThe Pixel Watch didn’t exist and the Galaxy Watch still ran Tizen.
The new app supports a set of features including full access to your chats, the ability to send and listen to voice messages, and more. The Wear OS app supports muting and pinning chats, but currently lacks the ability to view locations or send stickers; Those are in the Apple Watch version and Telegram anticipates that they will come to Wear OS next.
Shamelessly telegram explains:
Now you can explore chats and mediaand read messages of any length without running the risk of dropping your phone. feel free to listen to voice messages and watch videos if there is no one in the next stall. You can also send text messages – either voice messagesif your hands are busy zipping up.
For some reason our Android developer added mute and fix chatsas well as deleting messages. Meanwhile, the iOS developer added display locations and sending stickers. Because?? We will never know. We’ve convinced them to steal these features from each other in the next update.
The latest Telegram updates also bring major improvements to bot text formatting, links in survey options, support for markdown files, the option to open links in external browsers with a long press, and the ability to force Telegram to open specific sites in the external browser instead of the built-in one.
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