How to Send Anonymous Messages in Telegram Groups

Feb. 9, 2021

Last October, Telegramadded a featureto let group admins anonymously send messages. The feature, which Telegram calls ‘batman mode’, doesn’t reveal anonymous admins in the group list, and messages sent by anonymized admins are signed with the group name as opposed to the user’s name. Here’s how you can use it in your Telegram group.

Send Anonymous Messages in Telegram Groups

Before getting started with the steps involved, it is worth noting thatonly admins can send anonymous messages in Telegram groups. Moreover, admins can’t choose to toggle their anonymity in their group. If you no longer want to remain anonymous, you should ask the group owner to revoke the permission.

1. If you’re a group owner, you should first allow permission for group admins to message anonymously. To do that, open group settings, long-press on one of the admin’s name, andchoose ‘Edit admin rights.’You can also promote a group member to admin from this page.

2. From the list of admin rights settings,flip the ‘Remain Anonymous’ toggle. Once done, tap on the checkmark icon in the top-right corner of the screen to confirm and save the changes.

3. Once you have this permission, you can anonymously send messages in groups. The fourth message in the screenshot below was sent from the same account after enabling the feature. Instead of your name, Telegram shows the group’s name in the message. The downside of the feature is that you can’t toggle between regular and anonymous messages and should rely on the group owner to do that for you.

No, you can’t seamlessly switch between anonymous and regular messages. Group owner should manually revoke your ability to send anonymous messages.

No. Anonymous group admins feature, as the name suggests, is for group admins. You canhide your profile pictureand phone number in privacy settings if you don’t want others to identify you.

If you have a custom admin title in the group, Telegram will show it next to your message, even if it is sent in anonymous mode. You can ask the group owner to remove the custom admin title for your account to prevent that.

Anonymous group admins feature is often overlooked by many Telegram users and we hope this guide helped you enable and use the feature in Telegram groups. If you have any other questions regarding the feature, do not hesitate to reach out in the comments and we’ll try to help you out. For more such tips, take a look at ourTelegram tips and tricksarticle. Also don’t forget to read our guide onimporting WhatsApp chats on Telegramif you are planning tomove from WhatsApp to Telegram.

Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.