What Exactly Arrives in the Destination: Buttons, Pinned Posts, Albums and Copies That Expire

Copy buttons

Some messages carry buttons underneath: a link, a subscribe action, a vote. The setting is on by default, and it decides whether those buttons come across with the message.

The limit is real and worth stating plainly: buttons survive when the message is relayed as it is. As soon as the rule rewrites the text — filters that change it, replacements, a header or footer — the message has to be recreated, and buttons can only be re-attached when Ghost Mode is on. Without it, a rewritten message arrives without its buttons. That comes from what Telegram allows an ordinary account to send, not from a decision on our side.

Forward pinned messages

When someone pins a post in the source, Telegram produces a small service notice. This setting, off by default, decides whether that gets relayed.

Off is right for almost everyone: a pin notice in your destination refers to a pin that did not happen there, which is confusing rather than informative. Turn it on when you are mirroring a channel closely enough that the pins are part of what you are relaying.

Delete the copy after a while

The copy delivered to your destination can remove itself after a set time: one hour, six hours, twenty-four hours, or seven days.

Two things this is not. It never touches the original — only the copy your rule created, in your own destination. And it is not a retraction: if the source deletes a post you want removed everywhere, that is delete sync, which mirrors the deletion instead of running on a timer.

It suits destinations that are meant to be transient: a live alerts channel where yesterday is noise, a preview channel, a group where you do not want a permanent archive to build up on its own.

Albums

When a source publishes several photos as one album, the copy arrives as one album too. There is no switch: it happens by itself when the content is not being changed.

The limit, again from Telegram: an album stays an album only while the message is relayed untouched. If the rule rewrites the text — replacements, a header, a translation — each piece has to be recreated individually, and they arrive in the right order but no longer bound together as one album. This is not a setting we have chosen to withhold; it is what recreating a message allows.

The practical consequence: if albums matter to your destination, keep the transformations off on that rule, or accept the pieces arriving separately.

How they interact

• Relayed untouched: buttons stay, albums stay whole. This is the plainest and most faithful form.
• Text rewritten, Ghost Mode on: buttons can be re-attached, albums come apart.
• Text rewritten, Ghost Mode off: buttons are lost, albums come apart.
• Auto-deletion is independent of all of this: it applies to the copy whatever shape it arrived in.

Which plans include them

These settings are part of the paid plans, from Smart upwards; re-attaching buttons additionally needs Ghost Mode, which starts on Gold. The plan comparison is on the pricing page.