Telegram feature/privacy PSA (profile picture history)
Telegram keeps your previous profile pictures in a separate album, visible to everyone.
You can see them by opening the settings panel, and clicking/touching your current profile picture there. From this album you can delete them individually.
To me this is kind of a hidden UI. Maybe it's common knowledge, but I decided to post just in case someone's not aware of this feature, and doesn't want an old picture publicly visible.
Telegram feature/privacy PSA (profile picture history)
@shello ugh yeah i once had someone try to hit on me unsolicited over telegram by sending me one of my own extremely old profile photos that they got from this which, as you can probably imagine, freaked me the fuck out and was extremely uncomfortable
Telegram feature/privacy PSA (profile picture history)
@shello it's ok it was ages ago, but still thanks for making a psa post about it! hopefully someone else can avoid a similar situation
Telegram feature/privacy PSA (profile picture history)
@internetwolf Oh heck, I'm so sorry that happened to you... :(