The photo picker is not only the strip of recent pictures. There is a control at the top that opens your gallery's actual albums, so you can go to screenshots, or downloads, or the folder from that trip, instead of scrolling back through a year of everything.
It is a small thing that removes the most tedious minute in the app.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Reach a specific album instead of scrolling the camera roll.
- check_circle Send a file that is not a photograph at all.
- check_circle Select several from different places without losing the selection.
- check_circle Control how much of your gallery Telegram can see.
The album selector sits at the top of the picker, above the grid of recent pictures.
photo_library Your phone already sorted them
Every phone files pictures into albums by itself: camera, screenshots, downloads, saved images, whatever a camera app or an editor created. The picker can show those, which turns finding a screenshot from Tuesday into two taps rather than a long scroll.
The same attachment menu also reaches things that are not in the gallery at all. The file option opens your documents, and on a phone that is where anything downloaded from a browser or an email actually lives.
Selections survive moving between albums, so you can take two pictures from one place and a screenshot from another and send them together as one set.
Four things to find faster
Each has a route that is not the camera roll.
smartphone The one you took an hour ago
description Not a picture
collections Building one set
visibility_off What the app can reach
Stop scrolling the camera roll. The album selector and the file option cover almost everything.
settings In the picker
- Open the attachment menu The picker opens on recent pictures.
- Tap the album selector at the top Your phone's own albums are listed.
- Choose screenshots, downloads or a specific folder Whichever holds what you want.
- Keep selecting across albums The selection carries over.
- Use the file option for documents Or for photographs you want uncompressed.
- Reorder on the send screen Before you confirm.
This page is finding the file. The curriculum step is what happens to it on the way: compression against originals, size limits, streaming media back from the cloud, and keeping a media archive worth having.
At a glance
- 1Gallery folders
Switch to a specific album instead of scrolling everything.
- 2Send any file
Use the File option for documents and other files.
- 3Limit access
Give Telegram access to selected photos only.
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