Ever since Apple launched the App Retailer, builders huge and small have gotten caught up within the firm’s approval course of and had their apps delayed or eliminated altogether. The favored messaging app Telegram is simply the newest, in line with the corporate’s CEO Pavel Durov. On August tenth, Durov posted a message to his Telegram channel saying the app’s newest replace had been caught in Apple’s overview course of for 2 weeks with none actual phrase from the corporate about why it was held up.
As famous by The Verge, the replace was lastly launched yesterday, and Durov once more took to Telegram to debate what occurred. The CEO says that Apple instructed Telegram that it must take away a brand new function referred to as Telemoji, which Durov described as “increased high quality vector-animated variations of the usual emoji.” He included a preview of what they’d appear to be in his put up — they’re just like the fundamental emoji set Apple makes use of, however with some fairly pleasant animations that actually might assist make messaging a little bit extra expressive.
“This can be a puzzling transfer on Apple’s behalf, as a result of Telemoji would have introduced a complete new dimension to its static low-resolution emoji and would have considerably enriched their ecosystem,” Durov wrote in his put up. It isn’t completely clear how this function would enrich Apple’s total ecosystem, but it surely nonetheless looks as if fairly the puzzling factor for Apple to get caught up over, particularly since Telegram already has a bunch of emoji and sticker choices that go far past the default set present in iOS. Certainly, Durov famous that there are greater than 10 new emoji packs within the newest Telegram replace, and stated the corporate will take the time to make Telemoji “much more distinctive and recognizable.”
There are nonetheless a variety of emoji-related enhancements within the newest Telegram replace, although. The corporate says it’s launching an “open emoji platform” the place anybody can add their very own set of emoji that individuals who pay for Telegram’s premium service can use. If you happen to’re not a premium person, you will nonetheless be capable to see the custom-made emoji and take a look at utilizing them in “saved messages” like reminders and notes within the app. The customized emoji might be interactive as nicely — should you faucet on them, you will get a full-screen animated response.
To make it simpler to entry all this, the sticker, GIF and emoji panel has been redesigned, with tabs for every of these response classes. This makes the iOS keyboard match up with the Android app in addition to the net model of Telegram. There are additionally new privateness settings that allow you to management who can ship you video and voice messages: everybody, contacts or nobody. Telegram notes that, like its different privateness settings, you possibly can set “exceptions” in order that particular teams or folks can “all the time” or “by no means” ship you voice or video messages. The brand new replace — sans Telemoji — is obtainable now.
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