How to Stop Telegram Saving Images to Your Phone Gallery

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. For starters, it’s not owned by Facebook, which is one of the largest advertising companies in the world. So that’s a big plus.

As you’d expect, Telegram is packed with little tricks that make the messaging app even more enjoyable to use. One such feature is the ability to stop images you receive from being automatically saved to your phone’s picture gallery. So, in this article, we explain how that works.

How to Stop Telegram From Saving Photos

If your Telegram images are showing in your gallery and you don’t want them to, it is possible to prevent the auto-download process.

To learn how to stop Telegram from saving photos, follow the simple step-by-step instructions below:

Open the Telegram app.
Tap on the three horizontal lines in the upper left-hand corner of the window.
In the new menu, select Settings.
Scroll down to the Chat Settings section.
Slide the toggle next to Save to Gallery into the Off position.

(NB: Changing this setting will not affect images that you have already downloaded onto your device.)

Unlike WhatsApp (which blurs images when you disable automatic downloads), you will still be able to see Telegram images on the screen in all their glory.

If you’d like to save a single picture to your gallery, open the image and click on the three dots in the upper right-hand corner. In the pop-up menu, choose Save to Gallery.