Channel posts carry a small arrow beside them. Tapping it opens a list of your chats, lets you pick several at once, and sends the post to all of them — with a note of your own if you want one.
What travels with it is the interesting part. A forward keeps a line saying where it came from, and that line is a link. Most of how anything spreads on Telegram is that single detail.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Forward a post to several chats in one action, with a comment attached.
- check_circle Decide whether the original sender's name goes with it.
- check_circle Use Saved Messages as the place things go when you have no time to read them.
- check_circle Know why the arrow is sometimes missing, and what that means about the post.
The chat list that opens is multi-select — three taps sends the same post to three different places.
share The arrow, and what it saves you
Forwarding has always been available by holding a message and finding the option. The arrow is the same action without the holding and the finding, placed where the eye already is when a post is worth passing on.
It opens straight into a chooser with your frequent chats at the top and Saved Messages among them. Selecting more than one is the default behaviour rather than a second trip, and the text box at the bottom means your comment arrives with the post rather than as a stray follow-up.
What a forward carries with it
Four things to understand before passing something on, because a forward is not a copy — it is a copy with a label.
campaign Forwarded from, and it is a link
visibility_off Sending it without the name
forum The comment box at the bottom
lock When the arrow is not there
Before you forward, one question: does the source line belong in the chat you are sending it to?
settings Using it
- Tap the arrow on the post Beside the timestamp on a channel message. In ordinary chats, hold the message and choose Forward.
- Pick as many chats as you want Tap each one; they stay selected. Saved Messages sits in the same list.
- Decide about the sender name The option to drop it is on this screen, before sending.
- Write a line of your own The box at the bottom. One sentence is usually the difference between read and ignored.
- Send Every selected chat receives it at once, each with your comment.
This page is the arrow and what travels with a post. The curriculum step covers the surrounding controls: the privacy setting that unlinks your name from your forwards, what captions survive, and how content protection behaves across a whole channel.
At a glance
- 1Forward to several
Pick several chats and add a comment in one go.
- 2Hide the sender
Remove the name if the source does not matter.
- 3Missing arrow
The chat restricts saving and forwarding.
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