Secret chats are available in Telegram’s iOS, Android, and macOS apps. Because secret chats are saved only on the devices of chat participants, they cannot be accessed from another device - and they disappear when you log out of Telegram or delete the app. Moreover, the contents of secret chats are not stored on Telegram’s servers. That means only you and the recipient have the decryption key, so Telegram cannot access the data. In secret chats, text messages, pictures, videos, and all other files are sent using end-to-end encryption. Telegram calls chats with end-to-end encryption enabled Secret chats.
Telegram does have end-to-end encryption - you just need to enable it. How to enable end-to-end encryption for secret chats in Telegram However, as we know from experience, policies can change. According to Telegram’s privacy policy at the time of this writing, the data is not used for advertising purposes. In a nutshell, the absence of end-to-end encryption means Telegram has access not only to metadata (who you wrote to, when, how often, and so forth), as WhatsApp does, but also to the contents of standard chats with no end-to-end encryption. ( Here’s why end-to-end encryption is important for privacy.)
The first thing to know about Telegram is that Cloud chats, as Telegram calls its standard chats, are not end-to-end encrypted. End-to-end encryption is not the default option in Telegram That makes this the perfect time to talk about Telegram’s security and privacy. Thanks largely to this exodus, Telegram added 25 million new users in just a few days, pushing its user base over the 500 million mark. Facebook’s WhatsApp recently updated its privacy policy, causing many disgruntled users to switch to rival messengers, among them Telegram.
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