While the default setting in Telegram is to allow all Contacts to see your Phone Number, it also provides the option to hide your Phone Number from Contacts and everyone on Telegram.
To protect your privacy, Telegram also provides the option to prevent unknown people from finding your profile and interacting with you, even if they get hold of your phone number.
Hide Your Phone Number on Telegram
The option to hide phone number in Telegram is available on the Privacy Settings screen, which allows you to select “Who can see your phone number”.
Depending on your privacy requirements, you can select “My Contacts” to allow only your Contacts to see your phone number or select “Nobody” to prevent everyone (includung Contacts) from seeing your phone number.
As mentioned above, Telegram also provides the option to allow only the Contacts to find you by phone number or prevent everyone (including Contacts) from finding you by phone number.
1. Hide Phone Number from Everyone in Telegram
You can follow the steps below to Hide your Phone Number from everyone in Telegram.
1. Open Telegram > tap on the Menu icon and select Settings in the drop-down menu.
2. From the Settings screen, navigate to Privacy and Security > Phone Number > on the next screen, select either Nobody or My Contacts under “Who can see my Phone Number?” section.
My Contacts: Only people listed in your Contacts List will be able to see your Phone Number.
Nobody: Hides your Phone Number from Everyone.
Everybody: Makes your phone number visible to anyone that starts chatting with you (like WhatsApp).
Delete Synced Contacts
Even if you select the option to Show Phone Number to Nobody, Contacts that are already Synced to your Telegram Account will still be able to see your Phone Number. This issue can be fixed by deleting Synced Contacts.
1. Open Telegram > tap on the Menu icon and select Settings in the menu that appears.
2. From the Settings screen, navigate to Privacy and Security > scroll down and tap on Delete Synced Contacts option.
3. On the confirmation pop-up, select the Delete option to remove the previously synced contacts from Telegram servers.
2. Change Who Can Find You By Phone Number
As mentioned above, Telegram also provides the option to keep your profile hidden and prevent unknown people from trying to find you by Phone number.
1. Open Telegram > tap on the Menu icon and select Settings in the menu that appears.
2. From the Settings screen, navigate to Privacy and Security > Phone Number > on the next screen, select My Contacts under “Who can find me by my number?” section.
After this, only your Contacts will be able to find you by Phone Number, which prevents the chances of unknown people from contacting you on Telegram.