Guides
Practical, sourced guides. Each one answers a single question well and links to the others where they overlap.
What Telegram keeps for you, and how to make a copy you control.
A practical guide to backing up Telegram: what the cloud already keeps, how to export chats with Telegram Desktop, what nothing backs up, and how to record your contacts and groups.
Step-by-step instructions for exporting Telegram chats, media and account data with Telegram Desktop, plus what HTML and JSON exports contain and what they leave out.
Exporting Telegram data gives you a copy to read. Being prepared means you can keep going if the account is gone. Here’s how the two differ and how to cover both.
What to do when access is lost, and what can move to a new account.
An incident-response guide for a hacked or stolen Telegram account: ending unknown sessions, securing two-step verification, recovering your number, and what to do if you are locked out.
How to move Telegram to a new phone, a new phone number, or a genuinely separate account, and exactly what you’ll have to rebuild by hand in each case.
When Telegram chats come back by themselves, when they can’t be recovered, and what an exported archive can and can’t do for you.
The settings that keep an account yours.
Two-step verification, recovery email, passkeys, passcode lock, session reviews and phishing signs: the settings that keep a Telegram account yours, and why each one matters.
