How To Add Contacts in Telegram For Android And iOS?

Most of the messaging apps like Telegram, in addition to being able to access the phone’s contact list, also have their own contacts list. In this list, you can see many of your contacts that have Telegram accounts, and communicate with them if you wish. We talked about editing this list in previous posts on Telegram. In what follow in this article, we are going to show you how to add contacts in Telegram and also examine why, in some cases, we can not add a new contact to the Telegram contacts list.

Add Contacts in Telegram

As we learned in the previous discussion about to remove a contact from the Telegram contacts list, in this post we will learn how to add a new contact to the Telegram contacts list. Of course, this should not be forgotten that if you enter a person’s number in the phone’s contact list, if that person has a Telegram account and if the Telegram contact’s synchronization is active, his/her name will automatically display in the Telegram contacts list too.

But in this discussion, we’re going to show how to add contacts in Telegram without having to enter its name in the phone’s contact list. To do this, we will do the following:

1. Run the Telegram application.
2. Go to the Contacts list via the hamburger menu at the top of the screen, or the option similar to a pencil at the bottom of the page.
3. At the top of the Contacts list, select the “+” button to add contacts in Telegram .
4. Enter the requested information, such as the contact’s name, last name and mobile number, and then tap on the confirmation button at the top of the screen.

By using these simple steps, which is displayed in the image above, you can add your desired contacts in the Telegram contacts list. In order to add contacts in Telegram with this method, you need to have the person’s phone number. If you do not have the phone number, just what you can do is keep your chat history with them in your chat list or just save their Telegram ID.

If a contact that you do not have his number but he has your number sends you a message, you can add that contact to your contacts list via the menu displayed at the top of his chat page. The Telegram has a feature that if only one of the communication parties has the number of another party, the other party can also see the first party number. This way, you can quickly add a person to the contact list by using the Add Contacts option without having to manually enter the number.