A chat can have more than one pinned message. The bar at the top cycles through them, and a separate screen lists them all — which turns pinning from "the one thing we chose" into an index of the things that matter.
Used well, it is the closest a Telegram group gets to a front page. Used badly, it is a bar nobody reads.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Pin several messages and move between them from the bar.
- check_circle See the full list, and unpin from it in one place.
- check_circle Hide the bar for yourself without unpinning anything for anyone.
- check_circle Keep the set small enough that it stays useful.
Tapping the bar does not expand it — it jumps the conversation to that message, highlighted, with its context around it.
push_pin The bar is a table of contents
With several messages pinned, the bar at the top shows one at a time and a small indicator of how many there are. Each tap moves to the next and jumps the chat to it; the message is highlighted where it sits, so the discussion around it is still there.
The full list is behind the bar's own control, and it is the better way to manage them: everything pinned, in order, with unpinning available from the same screen.
Pinning works in every kind of chat, including a one-to-one conversation and your own Saved Messages — which is an underrated way to keep half a dozen important things at the top of your own notes.
What belongs up there
Four candidates. The ordering rule at the end is what stops the set decaying.
checklist How the group works
schedule The current thing
forum The question asked every week
warning When the bar stops working
Keep it to the rules, the current thing, and the repeated answer. Everything else is a link inside one of those.
settings Pinning and managing
- Hold a message and choose Pin In a group you need the permission; in your own chats you always have it.
- Decide about notifying Pinning can alert the group or be silent. Silent is right for tidying, loud for something people must see.
- Cycle from the bar Each tap moves to the next pin and jumps to it.
- Open the full list From the bar's control. Everything pinned, in one place, with unpin beside each.
- Unpin what is finished The maintenance that keeps the rest worth reading.
- Or hide the bar For yourself, in a group where you already know what is up there.
This page is the bar and what to put in it. The curriculum step covers structure at scale: organising a community's standing information, when a pin should become a link to something longer, and how announcements are arranged so people find them later.
At a glance
- 1Several pins
Tap the bar to move between pinned messages.
- 2Full list
Open the list to see and unpin them in one place.
- 3Hide for yourself
Close the bar for you without unpinning for others.
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