Telegram is an instant messaging application with quite clear ideas, offering great security by encrypting all your conversations from end to end. The tool is becoming one of the most downloaded in 2020, ahead of other clients who came as an alternative.
Many of the users of This network is also often used to save photos, videos and documents in the cloud for freeIn addition, they can be accessed at any time. It is therefore a alternative to Google Photos, who from June 2021 will let each person store about 15 GB.
How to store your photos, videos and more in Telegram
To be able to save that valuable information from your mobile device it is necessary to create a private channel, once done you will be able to upload the files you want. It is more than an alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive or other cloud services.
With a private channel we will have free space in the cloud to store photos, videos, documents in Telegram, having everything within reach to be able to access it at any time. If you already use the application, you don't need to download it, but if you don't have it, you can download it from the Play Store.
How to create a private channel
To create a private Telegram channel on Android you have to perform the following steps:
- Open the Telegram application on your mobile phone
- In the general tab click on the pencil at the bottom right
- Once inside it will show you several options, click on «New channel»
- Now in the name of the channel put the one you want, for example we have used DaniPlay Cloud and fill in the description, here we put what we want, we have put "personal photos, videos and other documents"
- Finally, you have two options, put the public or private channel, the second is advisable, choose the private one because it is personal data and click OK at the top
- Now it will ask you to add subscribers, do not do it if you want to upload content of yours, family members and personal files, click on the blue arrow and it will create the channel for you
Upload photos, videos and documents to the new channel
Now the important thing is to be able to upload content to the private channel created, remember that you can upload everything here to have a backup of your images, videos and documents at your fingertips. To carry out this process you must do the following to save everything in the cloud:
- Open the created private channel that will appear at the top
- Now click on the clip icon that appears next to the bell, now you can upload any type of file that you think is appropriate and have it at your fingertips on the phone whenever you want, as well as on the computer, you have the ability to upload photos from the gallery, files, share a location, music and others options
View content in gallery
Once with the private channel we can view the content in gallery mode, this will happen if you have many files, especially if they are images. Doing so is quite simple and is as follows:
- Open the private channel created
- Click on the upper part of the channel, specifically on the name
- When a new window opens, you will see all the multimedia files, documents and all the content
