Create a meeting¶
Tap ➕ New meeting in the main menu and send the title. That's the only thing the bot asks for. The meeting is created with your default options and its card comes up, ready to fill in and share.
Attach a date to the title message, using Telegram's own date and time formatting, and the meeting starts with its schedule set. Bold, italic and the rest of Telegram's text formatting come through as you typed them, in the title and in the description.
The meeting card¶
Everything about a meeting lives on its card. Each section holds a value and, next to it, the chips that change it. Tap a chip, answer the bot, and the card comes back updated. Sections you leave empty are hidden from the people you share the meeting with, so a title alone is already a meeting you can share.
🖼️ Images
📄 Description
Bring water and sturdy boots.
✏️ Edit Clear
🕒 When
Start time: Tue, Sep 1, 18:00
✏️ Edit Remove
End time: Tue, Sep 1, 21:00
✏️ Edit Remove
🗺️ Where
Trailhead car park
✏️ Edit Remove
📍 ✏️ Edit Remove
👥 Participants · 3 of 20
Change limit Kick out
- Ana Marín ❌ Leave
- Diego
- Sara
- Title: the heading, with its ✏️ Edit chip.
- Images: up to five photos at the top of the card, a Host perk. See Images.
- Description: what to bring, the plan for the evening, a link to the venue.
- When: the start time and, once one exists, an end time. See When.
- Where: a place name, a map pin, or both. See Where.
- Participants: who is coming, with the waiting list under it. Change limit caps the list and Kick out removes someone after you confirm. Creating a meeting doesn't put you on its list: tap ✅ Join on the card if you're going, and your row then carries ❌ Leave.
Under the card, 📨 Share posts the meeting into a chat, ⚙️ Settings opens the meeting settings, 🗑️ Delete removes the meeting after you confirm, and 🔄 Refresh redraws the card. Your own card doesn't update by itself as people join and leave; the copies shared into chats do.
Images¶
Hosts can put up to five photos on a meeting, on every Host tier. They show at the top of every copy of the card: one on its own, several as a collage or a slideshow.
Tap + Add images on the card, or ✏️ Edit images once it has some, and send a photo or a whole album. On the Images screen each photo can be replaced or removed, and with several you pick collage or slideshow.
Sharing a meeting with photos
A card with photos can only be posted into a chat where you are allowed to send photos, stickers and GIFs. Group owners and admins always are; for everyone else the group's permissions decide. See sharing and joining.
If your Host support ends, the photos stay on the card and you can still remove them. Adding or replacing needs an active tier.
When¶
Tap + Set date & time, pick the day on the calendar and set the time. Once a start exists, + Set end time adds an end, which has to be after the start and within a week of it. Each row keeps its own ✏️ Edit and Remove chips, and removing the start removes the end with it.
Tip: you can also send a message using Telegram's date & time formatting to set the date and time at once.
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🕒 Current time: 18:00 ✏️ Edit
How far ahead you can schedule depends on your account. A meeting with a start and no end goes inactive shortly after it starts; the meeting lifecycle page has the details. Freezing the guest list while the meeting runs is a setting, lock on start.
Where¶
A place has a name, a map pin, or both. + Set name takes any text: a bar, a park entrance, a video-call link. + Set map pin takes a location sent from your phone, through the attachment icon and Location, and it can be any spot on the map, not only where you are. With a pin set, the map is drawn on the card and opens the spot when tapped.