We were told that the ability to create groups will not disappear. In the future the default will be created that group, and only when performing certain actions, such as the translation in public, it will be automatically converted into a supergroup. The new client version will also be no system of notification of conversion.

Two years ago we wrote about the difference of groups from supergroups, now many functions of the supergroups are introduced in the normal group, and the conversion will be seamless and occur automatically.

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Several updates ago, Telegram lost the ability to manually transform a group into a supergroup. At the moment this happens automatically.

To convert, you need to do one of the following:
- Change the group type to public (after that you can return it back, it will also remain a supergroup).
- Change settings "visibility of history" for new users.
- Give any user admin rights with a custom role.
- Configure any setting of global rights for the whole group.
- Activate slow mode.
- Limit any participant.
- Link the group to the channel.

Or wait until there are ~ 200 members in the group.

Important: the service notification "The group has become a supergroup" will not be displayed on new clients:
Android - 5.2 and up.
iOS - 5.2 and higher.
Telegram Desktop - 1.5.8 and higher.
Native macOS client - 4.9 and higher.

#FAQ #supergroup

Public groups Telegram to the world!

5 Jun user messenger from Iran asked on Twitter when the public group will be available for his country. June 6 Telegram said that the public group is available for users from Vietnam and the Philippines, and promised within a month to open access for other countries.

14 June Iran also gained access to public groups, but at the moment after joining, users from Iran is not possible to write, this will change after amplification system anti-spam, according to message from Telegram.

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How a group differs from a supergroup

Many users have probably forgotten that there are two types of group chats:
- Groups.
- Supergroups.

At the moment, the transformation of a group into a supergroup is seamless, and for conversion it is enough to do one of the actions described here.

Our @tginfochat was transformed into a supergroup exactly 5 years ago. Since then, more than a million messages have been written in the chat. During this time, the differences between ordinary groups and supergroups have become less, but there are still many of them.

Supergroup benefits:
- Blacklist and bans.
- Ability to give admins a custom role.
- Notifications are off by default.
- Ability to create a public link to the group.
- Number of participants up to 200,000 (the group will automatically become a supergroup when it reaches 200 participants).
- Ability to setup the visibility of history for new participants in the conversation.
- Ability to configure global rights in the group (for example, prohibiting stickers).
- Creator and administrators can delete all posts for all members of the group, other users can only delete their posts, but also for all users.

The advantages of a regular group:
- Groups are not included in the limit of 500 channels and supergroups.
- All users can edit the description, name and avatar of the group.
- Any user can delete other people's messages (only for himself).

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