What is "Batman mode" on Telegram?
The "anonymous mode" developed by Telegram is referred to by users as "Batman mode"; This function is intended for protect the owner's privacy and administrators in a Telegram chat group from those users to whom the administrator's phone number has not been added.
This is important because they come many times manage large chats (a Telegram group can have up to 200.000 members) where not all the participants who are part of the group are known.
When the administrator and owner activate Batman mode, the messages they send to the group will not have their name or phone number, as such data will remain anonymous and will be displayed alone the name of the group and the connection.
If users have registered the phone number, they can see the administrator name and phone number. With this feature, administrators will avoid receiving messages from people they don't know why i their data will be well protected.
Steps to activate Batman mode or anonymous mode on Telegram
- Access the Telegram application.
- Open the chat of the group in which you want to activate the «Batman mode». If you are an owner you can share or invite someone to a group with just one link.
- Click on the group name, usually located at the top of the screen.
- Now you need to click icon area of pencil in the upper right corner.
- In the new section you will see several options, search and select the one it says "Directors", this option has a plate icon with a star on the left side.
- In the «Administrators» section you will see the owner's profile, also the administrators profile, this will only appear if at some point you have added administrators to help you manage the group. Click on the person's name.
- In the "Administrator privileges" section you will find a series of permissions that you can activate or deactivate and then execute within the group. Find the option "Be anonymous" and move the switch to the right, it will change color when the option is activated.
After activating the "Batman Mode" or "Anonymous Mode" the administrator or owner can send messages to the group without worrying about their data being exposed to those unknown users, so if a person clicks on the message, they will not be able to see the personal information of the data, you will only see group information.
You must keep in mind that if you want to be anonymous in all the groups you have created, you must follow the previous steps in each group so that the your data is anonymous and hidden.
The group owner can also activate Batman mode for admins so that their personal data is anonymous for group participants, to perform this process the owner must follow the steps described above for each admin. In this section you can also enable and disable permissions that other administrators can run.
In the "Administrator privileges" section, the group owner can give each administrator a "Custom title" (nickname, alias or nickname) which it will serve to identify him within the group.
The messages sent by that administrator will be identified with that title, if you activate the anonymous mode, their name and phone number will not be exposed to other users, the members of the group they will only see that nickname or name.
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