Telegram update gives you more control of notification tones and mute durations

• Telegram's latest improvements include the ability to customize your message alerts using any sound.
• The app has also rolled out custom mute durations and more increments for the auto-delete timer.
• Its picture-in-picture mode on Android now lets you change the size of its window player.
• There are new animated food emojis in chat and a refreshed interface for changing your phone number.

The team behind Telegram, one of the best messaging apps, deserves a pat on the back for releasing new updates almost on a monthly basis. The latest enhancements give you more control over your Telegram experience.

You can now set any sound as your message alert on Telegram. Notification tones can be made out of your favorite music or meme. A voice message can be used as a tone in a chat.

There are some limitations. Telegram only supports audio files and voice messages that are under 300KB in size. You can listen to these tones on your phone even if you uploaded them on your phone.

You can pick from any of the tones available on Telegram's Notification Sounds channel.

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The mute function has become more useful. Telegram has more options for how long you want to keep talking. If you are on sabbatical leave, you can choose to pause notifications for 30 minutes if you don't want to be disturbed during your lunch break.

The new options are more practical than the old ones. There is a new streamlined menu that appears in every chat.

The update adds more auto-delete timer increments, such as 2 days, 3 weeks, 4 months, and more. The feature can be enabled in any chat.

The picture-in-picture mode on the app allows you to adjust the size of the window player. Telegram now supports the same number of languages as it does on the other side of the world.

Telegram said in a post that when forwarding messages to other chats, you can also include reply previews so everyone can see the full context of your inside jokes.

If you want to include a flipping cookie or a rotating slice of cake in your chats, you will notice a new animation when you change your phone number in the settings menu.

Telegram introduced a new download manager a month ago.