This article explains how to turn “Keep-Alive Service” and “Background Connection” on or off in the Telegram app on mobile devices.
Telegram is a cross-platform instant messaging app that focuses on speed and security. It allows users to send text and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share photos and videos with end-to-end encryption to help ensure user privacy and security.
When you install and set up Telegram on Windows, you can start it up automatically when signing into Windows, turn the spell checker on or off, change media download paths, turn disable filtering on or off, change who can add you to groups and channels, turn send with enter on or off, change who can see my phone number, change who can see your last seen and online status, change who can call me, turn auto-delete messages on or off, and more.
When you use the mobile version, you can also turn notifications for chats on or off, turn sync contacts on or off, turn ringtone and vibrate for calls on or off, enable or disable badge counter for unread messages, turn In-app notifications on or off, turn link previews on or off, turn passcode lock on or off, turn unlock with fingerprint on or off, turn auto-lock on or off, and more which aren’t available on the desktop version.
The app’s mobile version launches the app and keeps a background connection active when the app shuts down to maintain reliable notifications. You can disable these features to stop notifications from the app.
You may want to turn off the “Keep-Alive Service” and “Background Connection” in Telegram to stop the app from using your device’s battery and data unnecessarily. By default, Telegram’s mobile version keeps a background connection active when the app is closed to maintain reliable notifications and to ensure that messages are delivered in real-time.
This feature can be useful but can drain your battery and consume your mobile data. If you don’t need to receive notifications or messages in real time or want to conserve your device’s battery and data, you can turn off these features in the app’s settings.
Turn Keep-Alive Service and Background Connection on or off
As mentioned above, users can keep the ‘Keep-Alive’ service. and Background Connection’ when the app shuts down to maintain reliable notifications.
You can turn both off to prolong their battery life.
Here’s how to do it.
First, open the Telegram app on your mobile device.
When the app opens, click the Menu button at the top left, then select Settings on the context menu.
Next, select the “Notifications and Sounds” tile on the Settings page to expand it.
On the Settings ->Notifications and Sounds settings page, under “Other,” select the “Keep-Alive Service” and ‘Background Connection‘ tiles. Then, use the toggle buttons to turn them to the On position to enable both.
To disable both, toggle the switch buttons to the Off position.
That should do it!
Conclusion:
This post showed you how to turn background services on or off in Telegram for reliable notifications. Please use the comments form below if you find errors or have something to add.
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