How To Hide Your Phone Number In Telegram

How To Hide Your Phone Number In Telegram.

Telegram is a cloud-based IM and voice over IP service platform. Telegram apps are readily available for download on Google Play Store and App Store.

Users can easily send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio, and files of any type through the app.

In this article, we’ll guide you on How To Hide Your Phone Number In Telegram so that nobody will be able to see you in the list of contacts.

So, sit tight and follow our step by step guide on How To Hide Your Phone Number In Telegram.

Table of Contents

How To Hide Your Phone Number In Telegram

Disable Number Sharing

For Android users do the following:

Tap the Menu icon
To to Settings

Tap Privacy and Security
Tap Phone Number
Under Who can see my phone number select Nobody
Under Who can find me by my number specify My Contacts

For iOS users do the following:

launch Telegram
Tap Settings at the bottom right of the screen
Tap Privacy and Security

Under the Privacy section tap on Phone Number
Choose Nobody and My Contacts respectively

Make sure you don’t have the contact that shouldn’t see you on Telegram.

So, if you don’t want someone to be able to find out that you have Telegram installed, delete the person from your Contacts!

It is important because there is no such option permitting you to prevent all Telegram users from seeing you via your phone number.

Don’t skip this step! or else, you will be visible to all unwanted people who are in your Contacts.

Clear Contact Cache

On iOS and iPadOS devices

Go to Settings
Tap Privacy and Security;
Scroll down to the bottom and tap on Data settings;
Tap Delete Synced Contacts.

Note that you will also need to re-enable the sync later as it will get automatically deactivated

On Android devices

Tap on Menu icon
Select Settings;
Tap Privacy and Security;
Scroll down to the bottom and tap Delete Synced Contact.

Sometime after clearing your contact cache the person might be able to see that you are on Telegram for some period of time if you are already in someone’s contacts.

Conclusion

Once you’ve followed these steps above, nobody will be able to know whether or not you have Telegram on your number no matter if they have your number in contacts or not.

Even if they are trying to manually add your phone number to Telegram, they will see that you are “not on Telegram yet”.

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