How to ban on Telegram

How to ban user on Telegram

Preliminary information

Before getting to the heart of this tutorial and explain yourself in detail how to ban on Telegram, you may find it helpful to know what options are available to you so you can choose the one you think best suits your needs.

If you are the owner or administrator of a Telegram group, both public and private, you can choose to manually ban a user by preventing the latter from publishing new content for the period of time you deem most appropriate.

Alternatively, you can use some bot in Telegram, that is, artificial users composed of strings of code that can interact with human users, both in single chats and in groups and channels, to perform various operations. Among the numerous bots available on Telegram there are also some created specifically for group moderation, which also allow users to be banned automatically. To find out more, read on.

How to ban on a Telegram group

Be your intention è ban on a Telegram group, you will be happy to know that you can do it - as mentioned above - both manually and through moderation Telegram bots that can be added to the group of your interest. Find everything explained in detail right below.

How to ban Telegram group user

All you need to do to ban a user in a Telegram group is to access the group you are interested in, identify the user you want to block and select the option to limit the latter.

To proceed from a device Android, start the Telegram app and, in the section Chat, access the group of your interest. Then press on group name (above), to view the list of users subscribed to it, identify the user you want to ban and make a prolonged tap on his name.

In the new screen that appears, select the option Change permissions and, in section What can this user do?, move the lever relative to the option you want to limit from ON a OFF. For example, if you want to prevent that user from posting new messages, move the lever next to the entry Send messages da ON a OFF.

Once this is done, click on the option duration and choose whether to apply the ban indefinitely (Everlasting) or whether to set a duration limit (1 days, 1 weeks, 1 month e custom). In the first case, to remove the user ban, you will have to repeat the procedure just described and disable the limitation manually. If, on the other hand, you set a duration limit, the user will be able to return to posting content without your intervention at the end of the set period of time. Finally, tap the button ✓, top right, and that's it.

It will be useful to know that you can view (and possibly unblock) all users banned from the section as well Modification of your Telegram group. To do this, access the group in question, press on his name, at the top, tap the icon of pencil and, on the screen Modification, tap on the item Permissions.

In the Add exception, you will find listed all the users you have restricted: by pressing the icon of three dots related to one of them and pressing on the appropriate item, you can unlock it.

You have a iPhone / iPad? in this case, to ban a user in a Telegram group, start the Telegram app, select the option Chat in the bottom menu and access the group of your interest. Now, press on name of the group, locate the user you want to ban in the list of members registered for the group in question and swipe from right to left on his name.

Then choose the option Limits from the menu that has opened and move the lever relative to the option you want to limit (eg. Send messages, Send media, Send link with preview, Send surveys etc.) from ON a OFF. If you want to set a temporary ban, tap on the item instead duration e scegli una delle opzioni available 1 days, 1 weeks, 1 month e custom (to set a specific date as the end of the ban).

If, on the other hand, you want to apply an indefinite ban and choose yourself when to unblock the user again (you will have to do it manually, reactivating the options you previously deactivated or selecting the option Remove exception), make sure that in the vicinity of the item duration the option is set Everlasting. Infine, premium pulsating Apply twice consecutively, to save the changes and ban the user in question.

If you prefer to ban a user in a Telegram group from a computer, start the Telegram application for Windows 10 or macOS and access the section Chat pressing the icon of two speech bubbles. Now, click on the group of your interest, tap on name of the latter (at the top) and, in the new screen displayed, identify the user you want to ban.

At this point, right click on the user's name in question, select the option Limits from the menu that opens and, on the screen Exception, move the levers relating to the options of your interest (eg. Send messages, Send media, Send stickers and GIFs etc.) from OFF a ON.

Finally, tap on the item duration, indicate how long to make the ban last by choosing one of the available options (1 days, 1 weeks, 1 month e custom) and click on your button Apply, to save the changes. It will be useful to know that if you do not set a duration limit, the ban will be applied indefinitely.

In the latter case, to unblock the banned user, you will have to repeat the procedure described above and manually reactivate the "blocked" options. By pressing, instead, on the item Delete exception, the user will automatically reacquire all publishing permissions.

Finally, if you are wondering if it is possible to ban a user by connecting to Telegram Web, the online version of the popular messaging service accessible via browser, I am sorry to tell you that the answer is no.

Bot to ban on Telegram

As I mentioned in the opening lines of this guide, there are also gods bot to ban on Telegram. Among the best bots of this genre, it should definitely be mentioned @GroupHelpBot which offers several moderation options.

If you think this is a valid solution to manage your groups, all you have to do is add the bot in question to the group of your interest. To do this, start the Telegram app, tap on the icon magnifying glass (if you have an iPhone / iPad or are using Telegram from a computer, access the section Contacts) and write @GroupHelpBot in the field Search.

In the search results, then tap the muzzle in question and, in the new screen displayed, press on his name (up). Then select the option Other, choose the item Add to a group, do tap sul group of your interest and that's it. For the walkthrough, you can check out my guide on how to add bots to a Telegram group.

At this point, log in to the group in which you added the bot and appoint it as an administrator. To do this, click on group name, fai tap sull'icona della pencil (or click on the option Modification if you have an iPhone / iPad or are proceeding from a computer) and, in the new screen displayed, select the option Directors.

Then press on the item Add administrator, select Group Help, make sure the toggle next to the option Block users sia spostata her ON e fai tap sul pulsating Done.

Once this is done, enter the command / settings in the field Message / Write a message e premi sull'icona dell 'paper airplane to send it. Then select the option Open here and configure the options of your interest. For example, if you want to apply a ban to users who send spam messages, go to the section Anti-Spam and press on the item Ban.

How to ban user on Telegram

How do you say? Do you want ban a user on Telegram who keeps contacting you privately? In this case you can use the blocking function which, if activated, allows you not to receive Telegram messages and calls from blocked users.

After searching for the user of your interest (if you don't know how to do it, my guide on how to search for people on Telegram might be useful), if you have a device Android, tap his photo, press the icon of three dotsat the top right, and select the option Block user per due turn consecutive.

If, on the other hand, you have a iPhone / iPad, tap on name or photo of the user you want to block and, in the new screen displayed, press on the item Block user. Then select the option Block [name] And that's it. If you don't see this option, it means that the user you want to block is in your contacts. If so, select the option Other e premi sui pulsnti Block user e Block [name].

You prefer to proceed from computer? In that case, tap on photo or on name of the user to be blocked and, in the new screen displayed, click on the item Block user. The procedure is valid even if you use Telegram Web. To find out more, I leave you to my guide on how to block on Telegram.

How to ban on Telegram