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Conclusion first: there are a lot of third-party Telegram clients, quality varies wildly, and you should avoid the closed-source ones as a rule. Since 2021, Telegram has required first-time registration to receive its verification code on the official mobile client — desktop and third-party clients can’t register directly. That’s already a signal. Third-party Telegram clients by platform: an overview This post is a curated list. The source is a roundup post by Telegram’s @LCGFX; I’ve reorganized it by platform and added open-source status and risk judgments.

Registering an Apple ID for another region shouldn’t be hard, but Apple keeps changing the flow. Most tutorials online record only a single path, and the comments are full of people saying it no longer works. More annoying: after registering, your first App Store login has a chance of being bumped straight back to the China store. Here I’ve put together all four methods I could find, plus a complete plan to avoid being sent back to the China store. Not just the US store — the same applies to Turkey, Japan, and Nigeria.