Telegram is a free-to-use messaging service used by millions worldwide. Launched in 2013, the app is open-sourced and provides end-to-end encryption for chats.

It surpassed 500 million monthly active users in January 2021. Soon after, it went to become the most downloaded app worldwide with more than 1 billion downloads.

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But in the last few months, users have faced a bunch of issues such as the one where notification badges were broken on iOS while others complained about ‘You have a new message’ ghost notifications.

And now, Telegram users are reporting that they are unable to send messages using Google Assistant. Whenever they try to do it, the Assistant replies with ‘Sorry, I can’t send texts with Telegram yet.’

With some reports dating back to December 2021, it looks like the issue has been affecting users for quite some time now.

You can see in the image below the error that pops up when Telegram users try to send a text message using Google Assistant.

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Hey, I’ve recently tried sending a message using the Assistant like ‘send a Telegram message to Mum’ and other ways to phrase it, but it’s response was always ‘sorry, I can’t send messages to Telegram yet’. I did a quick search online and it’s supposed to work when TG has access to your contacts, which is has. The only difference that could maybe explain it is that I’m using the APK version from their website, not from the PlayStore, which I know might not always be intergrated with other services Am I doing something wrong or could this really be it?
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Cannot send Telegram messages with Google Assistant
I had been using Google Assistant to send Telegram messages for years, without issue. Recently, however, whenever I ask Google Assistant to send a message via Telegram, it replies, “Sorry. I can’t send texts with Telegram yet.” I first noticed this was happening when attempting to send messages using the assistant via Android Auto, but it also happens when I am not using AA.
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Thankfully, a Diamond Product Expert on the Google Community forum has shed some light on the matter and said that they have escalated the issue to Google for further investigation.

Your issue has been escalated to the Google product team for further investigation.
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We hope the Google Assistant team soon finds out the root cause of the issue and fix it in the coming days.

As always, we will be keeping tabs on developments on this one and update this space once the Google Assistant Telegram issue has been fixed so make sure you stay tuned for updates.

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Anurag Chawake
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My fascination with technology and computers goes back to the days of Windows XP. Since then, I have been tinkering with OS, mobile phones, and other things. When I am not working on anything, you will find me enjoying video games on some Discord server.

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