How To Make People See Previous Chat Messages on Telegram

Telegram private groups has a feature that simply allows group admins to hide chat history for new members or make it visible.

If set to “Visible”, new members will be able to see messages that were sent to the group before they joined the telegram group but if set to “Hidden”, new members will not see earlier messages.

To enable members to see messages sent before they joined, follow the following steps:

Open the telegram app

Navigate to your telegram group, open it and tap on the name

Tap on the pencil (edit) icon

Set the “group type” to private and you will see the “chat history for new members” option. Tap on it and set it to “visible”

Tap on the tick sign at the top, to save the settings.

That’s all.

Kindly note that if the telegram group type is “public”, anybody can view the group’s entire chat history by default.

What is Telegram?

Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super-fast, simple and free. You can use Telegram on all your devices at the same time — your messages sync seamlessly across any number of your phones, tablets or computers. With Telegram, you can send messages, photos, videos and files of any type (doc, zip, mp3, etc), as well as create groups for up to 200,000 people or channels for broadcasting to unlimited audiences.