How to Configure Granular Gift Settings in Telegram: Privacy Controls, Input Bar Icons & Unique Gift Filters
Gifts have their own settings page. You can take the gift button out of the message bar, decide who is allowed to look at what you have been given, and say what kinds you are willing to receive at all.
Which of those you want depends entirely on whether gifts are something that happens to you or something you are asking for.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Remove the gift icon from the composer.
- check_circle Choose who can see your gifts.
- check_circle Filter what arrives, or convert it automatically.
- check_circle Pick the arrangement that matches how you use the app.
The controls sit together in the privacy settings rather than being scattered through the app.
tune Four switches, two kinds of person
The settings themselves are small: whether a gift icon sits beside the paperclip, who can open your gifts list, whether ordinary gifts turn into Stars on arrival, and whether you accept anything other than the rarer kinds.
What makes them worth a page is that there are two completely different people using them. One writes publicly and would like readers to have an easy way of saying thank you. The other has no interest in any of this and would rather the button were not in their composer at all.
Almost every choice here follows from which of those you are, and the defaults suit neither especially well — they suit somebody in the middle who has not thought about it, which is most people until the first gift arrives.
Two arrangements that actually make sense
The settings are the same. Which way you set them depends on what your account is for.
campaign If people thank you this way
block If none of this is for you
Decide first whether you want to be given things. Every switch here follows from that answer.
filter_alt The filter is stricter than it sounds
Restricting incoming gifts to the rarer kinds reads like a tidiness setting and behaves like a door policy. Somebody who wanted to send you a small thank-you finds they cannot, and what they learn is not that you prefer nice objects — it is that there was a standard and they did not meet it.
For an account where gifts are genuinely a nuisance that is a reasonable trade, and refusing everything is cleaner than refusing most things. For an account where they are a form of support it is close to the worst setting available, because the expensive ones come from people who started with cheap ones.
Automatic conversion is the gentler tool for the same problem. Everything is accepted, nothing accumulates, the sender is not refused, and the value arrives as a balance rather than as an ornament you did not want.
settings Setting it up
- Open the gifts section of the privacy settings Everything is in one place.
- Decide whether you want to be given things The rest follows.
- Turn the composer icon off if it bothers you Or leave it as an invitation.
- Set who can see the list Everyone, contacts, or nobody.
- Prefer converting to filtering One tidies, the other refuses people.
- Check what you are wearing or pinning Those ignore the visibility setting.
This page hides or shows one part of a profile. The curriculum step is the whole set: which settings decide what a stranger can learn about you, how they interact, and why the defaults deserve one afternoon of attention.
Gift settings at a glance
The four switches, the two arrangements that make sense, why filtering refuses the people you wanted, and what visibility does not cover, on one page. Tap to open it at full resolution.
