The developers of the Telegram messenger continue to actively update their application. In one of the latest versions, the program has a built-in store with mini-applications and a separate browser. Therefore, if all your interaction with your smartphone is concentrated inside Telegram, now you can follow links, open the necessary sites and even play cool games without leaving it. However, not everyone appreciated this innovation.
Some Apple smartphone users find the built-in iOS Safari much more convenient . Fortunately, the developers have provided the ability to completely turn off the browser in Telegram and return to a more familiar browser. We tell you how to do this, and at the same time find out what disadvantages it has that may prompt you to take this step.
Built-in browser in Telegram
If you dig deep into why you should disable the browser in Telegram immediately after installing a new version of the messenger, several reasons immediately come to mind. Firstly, you cannot use automatic filling of logins and passwords . The application does not have access to your keychain, which means you will have to enter everything manually. In addition, the browser in Telegram uses its own cookie storage, therefore, you will have to log in again to all the usual resources where you are already authorized through Safari or any other browser.
Secondly, it has no history. That is, if you visited a site, went to other resources several times, and then decided to go back, you won’t be able to do this through history. It simply isn’t there, which means you’ll have to enter the address manually or copy it from somewhere. Thirdly, the browser in Telegram distorts some sites. This doesn’t apply to all resources, but some may have non-clickable control elements, and some of them won’t be displayed at all.
There is another important point why it is worth switching to Safari in Telegram . The fact is that ad blockers , which many of us use to clean websites from visual garbage, simply do not affect the browser in Telegram . Consequently, all resources will be displayed with a full set of banners, which clearly does not add to their attractiveness.
Telegram opens links in browser
Do you think there are enough reasons to switch to Safari ? I think so. Fortunately, the developers have provided this opportunity and allowed you to completely disable the built-in browser in Telegram . You can do this as follows:
- Open Telegram on iPhone and go to the “Settings” tab;
- Select the "Data and Memory" section;
- Scroll down to the "Other" block;
- Click on the line "Browser";
- Check the box next to Safari or whatever browser you use.
Please note that here you can delete all cookies and even create a list of sites that will always open in the built-in browser, regardless of the settings used. Considering that Safari even on my old iPhone XR with the beta version of iOS 18 starts up quite quickly, I don’t experience any discomfort. But all the capabilities of the native browser on the iPhone are always with me, which is very convenient.
How to open a browser in Telegram
However, the built-in browser in Telegram does have some advantages . Firstly, it launches very quickly. According to personal observations, this really happens in a split second. Switching to another application takes a little more time, although not critical.
Secondly, the browser in Telegram conveniently collapses to the bottom of the screen. Imagine that you are reading an article and you receive a message in a messenger or you urgently need to find something in some correspondence. Just swipe the window to the bottom of the screen, do the necessary things, click on the page title, and the site is again in front of you. Everything is quite fast and convenient. Well, and it is impossible not to note the fact that even from the built-in browser in Telegram you can quickly go to Safari.
For this purpose, the developers have provided a special button in the lower right corner of the screen. One touch — and the selected link is opened in the standard iPhone browser . Although Telegram has its advantages, for me personally the disadvantages outweighed them. I am ready to wait a couple of seconds until Safari opens, but I can easily enter logins and passwords, all sites will be displayed without any distortion, and the ad blocker will remove all visual garbage from web pages.
We can only hope that the developers will further refine the messenger's built-in application and it will really become convenient to use. Have you disabled the browser in Telegram or do you continue to use it? Visit our chat and share your opinion.