Questions people ask before connecting

Question 1

Is it safe to give Telegard access?

Accepted Answer

The guard logs in like any Telegram app and protects you with the list of sessions; impostor protection also reads your contacts and who unknown senders are. Every connected account is also kept in Telegard’s service archive — the chat list, Saved Messages and chats Telegard staff choose to archive. The key is encrypted, and Disconnect removes it, deletes the archive and logs the guard out.

Question 2

What if I log in from a new phone myself?

Accepted Answer

You get a bot message with “It’s me”. One tap — the device is labelled as yours and stays. Ignore it for the review window and it is terminated; just log in again and confirm.

Question 3

Why can’t it terminate anything during the first 24 hours?

Accepted Answer

Telegram forbids any fresh session — including ours — from terminating other sessions for 24 hours after login. During that window Telegard still sees every new login, warns you instantly and retries the termination by itself the moment Telegram allows it.

Question 4

Why did a “Telegard” device appear in my Devices list?

Accepted Answer

That is the guard itself. Telegram only lets an authorized session see and manage other sessions — there is no other way to do it.

Question 5

I use a VPN. Will it trigger alarms?

Accepted Answer

Add your VPN exit country, or the region it lands in, to the trusted list once. Impossible-travel checks skip trusted locations.

Question 6

How do I stop it?

Accepted Answer

Disconnect in settings. It logs the guard out of Telegram and deletes every stored record about your account, the service archive included.

Question 7

I have several accounts. Can I protect all of them?

Accepted Answer

Yes — each account connects separately and gets its own guard, rules and bot alerts.

Question 8

I am an admin of channels and groups. Does it matter?

Accepted Answer

That is exactly who attackers target. Telegard protects the account that holds the admin rights; the channels stay yours because the account does.

Question 9

What if Telegard goes down?

Accepted Answer

Nothing happens to your account. The guard only adds protection; without it you are simply back to plain Telegram. Sessions are never touched while the guard is offline.

Question 10

Does it work with passkeys, email login or Premium?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Telegard does not care how you log in — it watches the sessions that result from it.

Question 11

Where is my data stored?

Accepted Answer

On our servers in the EU (Germany): the encrypted guard session, the session list, the audit log and the service archive of the account — its chat list, Saved Messages and any chat Telegard staff choose to archive. /mydata in the bot shows what is stored.

Question 12

Can I reuse one setup across accounts?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Tune the rules once and save them as a preset, then apply it to any account in one click — or start from a built-in one: Strict (terminate everything), Balanced or Watch-only. Auto-terminate, ask-first, impossible travel, profile protection and trusted countries are all yours to shape.

Question 13

If Telegard itself is breached, do attackers get my sessions?

Accepted Answer

No plaintext logins are lying around. Each account is stored as an AES-256-GCM ciphertext in a separate vault, apart from everything else, and the part of the system that faces the internet never decrypts them. A breach of the public surface yields ciphertext without the key that unlocks it — and any account can be wiped in one click: Disconnect logs the guard out of Telegram and deletes every stored record. Shared channel and supergroup copies remain for other linked accounts until their retention expires or the last link is removed; legal hold can extend retention. The key itself lives in an isolated key vault, apart from the code and the database, held by a single internal process that has no public interface.