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How to edit your Telegram profile
How to edit your Telegram profile

Learn how to change your Telegram profile picture and description via bot commands here.

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Written by Support Superchat
Updated over a year ago

You have successfully created your own Telegram Bot? From now on, you can use BotFather to change various settings on your bot. To use the commands you have to start a chat with BotFather. You can find out how this works here:

  1. Open Telegram on your smartphone

  2. Search for the contact BotFather (@BotFather). This contact is pre-installed on all Telegram users. Click on the contact to start a conversation.

Overview of Telegram Bot commands

Commands

Explanation

Basics

/newbot

Creates a new bot

/mybots

Lets you edit existing bots

Edit bots

/setname

Change the name of the bot

/setdescription

Change description of the bot

/setabouttext

Change the "about" text

/setuserpic

Changes the profile picture

/setcommands

Creates or changes the list of possible commands

/deletebot

Deletes a bot

Bot settings

/token

Generates a token for authentication

/revoke

Invalidates a token

/setinline

Sets the inline mode on/off

/setjoingroups

Sets whether the bot can be added to groups

/setprivacy

Sets the private mode in groups

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