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This TestFlight update focuses on voice messages, notifications, and accessibility. VOICE MESSAGES • Voice notes now encode and decode in Telegram's canonical OGG Opus format, so they play identically on Android, Desktop, and Web. • New speech-to-text: a "Transcribe" action on every voice note produces an inline transcription. A dedicated VoiceOver rotor walks through every untranscribed note in the conversation and fires transcription as you scroll, so you can clear a voicemail backlog in one sweep. Transcripts are also announced aloud the moment they arrive, so focus never has to leave the cell. Telegram Premium is required beyond the free trial quota. • The screen stays awake while you record a voice message. • MP3 files shared as documents now play in the in-app audio player. NOTIFICATIONS • Notification tones now match the official Telegram iOS sounds: private chats, groups, and channels each get their own. • Per-chat and per-scope sound preferences sync automatically — muting a chat's sound on another device silences incoming pushes here, and default tones follow the scope settings you configure anywhere in Telegram. • Calling no longer overrides your custom notification tones. TELEGRAM PREMIUM • Your Premium subscription status is shown in Settings and as a small badge next to names (profile, conversation header, chat list). VoiceOver reads "Telegram Premium" as part of the name. Subscription management stays in the official Telegram app. ACCESSIBILITY • Fixed a long-standing crash that could hit the conversation view when a message album (grouped photos or videos) was on screen. • New VoiceOver rotor to walk conversation dates; Links and Transcribe rotors appear when relevant. • VoiceOver now reads a single terminal delivery status per message (sending / sent / read / listened). • Caption links on photos, videos, and GIFs are now reachable via the rotor. • Fixed an issue where re-opening a recent chat left VoiceOver stuck on the back button instead of the newest message. • Unknown senders resolve correctly in chat list and message labels. LANGUAGES • Arabic joins the list of fully supported languages (13 in total) — every screen and VoiceOver label. CONVERSATION RELIABILITY AND PERFORMANCE • Large chats open progressively and are capped to a rolling window of 500 messages to prevent out-of-memory crashes on older devices. • Channels now open on the latest message; the unread anchor uses the server's real boundary. • Forum topics load from a local cache and the correct topic is pre-selected when you open a chat from a notification. • Several TDLib decoding crashes on polls and forum history are now handled gracefully. OTHER • Active Sessions: failed terminations now surface the error instead of going silent. • "Show Online Status" toggle in Settings now actually writes to the server. • New Contacts tab with alphabetical sort.