At the end of July, Stories appeared in Telegram. They are made by analogy with most social networks that support this feature. But if VKontakte Stories are displayed exclusively from those people who are your friends or communities that you are subscribed to, then in Telegram everything is much more complicated. The messenger displays to view the Stories of all users who are in your contact list. Moreover, contacts in Telegram and on the phone may differ. For example, if you corresponded with a locksmith from a water utility, then his Stories in Telegram will be available to you.
Agree that you don’t want to watch the stories of couriers with whom you once wrote off in Telegram or realtors who selected an apartment for you to rent for a couple of months. That’s why you need to match your contact list with what’s on your phone. We tell you how you can quickly do it right on your iPhone.
How to delete unwanted contacts in Telegram
Removing a user from the list of contacts in Telegram , as it turned out, is quite difficult. First, you can’t just open it and click the delete button on an unwanted entry. It’s just not provided. And secondly, you will not be able to select several people and delete them at once. There is no such function either. But we figured it out a little and now we are ready to share a couple of life hacks with you. Contact lists in iPhone and Telegram are usually different. This is due to the fact that we often communicate with people exclusively in the messenger and do not even know their number. Username only. So now they need to be brought into line with each other. You can do this very simply:
- Open Telegram on iPhone and go to the “Settings” section;
- Select the “Privacy” section;
- Scroll to the very bottom and select “Data Management”;
- Turn off the “Sync Contacts” switch and click the “Delete Imported Contacts” button;
- Open the multitasking panel and force close Telegram;
- Launch the messenger again and go to the “Data Management” item;
- Activate the “Sync Contacts” switch.
After all these actions, only those people who are in the contacts on the smartphone will be displayed in the list of your contacts in Telegram . Ideally, these two lists should now be the same, but not everyone uses Telegram, so there may be fewer people in the messenger.
How to remove a person from contacts in Telegram
If there is one person in your Telegram contact list who posts different stories without stopping, and you don’t plan to communicate with him, then you can remove him from this list by not the most obvious manipulations:
- Open Telegram and go to the “Contacts” tab;
- Find the user you want to remove from this list and click on it;
- After a new chat opens, do not write anything in it and click on the username at the top of the screen;
- As soon as the user profile appears on the screen, click on “Change.” in the upper right corner;
- In the window that opens, click “Delete Contact”.
After these actions, you will no longer see Stories in Telegram from a remote user. If you have a couple of such persistent people in your contact list, then this is a completely working way.
Hide Stories in Telegram
But there are situations when Stories in Telegram from one person are frankly tired, but deleting him from the contact list is not an option. For example, if it is a leader. Then you can just hide them. This is done as follows:
- Open Telegram and go to the “Chats” tab;
- Pull the chats down to open the list of stories;
- Launch the user story you want to hide and click on the circle with three dots in the upper right corner;
- Select “Hide Stories”.
Now, if the user posts stories in Telegram, then you will not see this. You can find them in the archive, which is called by a swipe from top to bottom.
Add contact to Telegram
Many of us have chats in Telegram with those people who are not in the contact list on our smartphones. After all the actions from the previous paragraph, they, of course, will also disappear from the contact list. But they can be very easily returned there:
- Open a chat with a user with whom you corresponded earlier, but he is not in the contact list;
- Click on the username at the top of the screen;
- Touch “Add to contacts”;
- Enter your first and last name and click Finish.
Even if the user’s phone number is hidden, it can still be added to the list this way. So restore all the people with whom you corresponded and who is important to you in contacts in Telegram. It is unlikely that there will be a lot of such chats. But most importantly, look at how many stories you will have left after all our actions. I managed to reduce their number to zero. Therefore, we can safely admit that these manipulations are worth it.
