Change telegram bot owner

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We have created telegram bot which has many difficult operations. Bot was created by one developer using his phone number. Is it possible change bot's owner or add another user as admin to bot?

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 12 '20 at 14:15

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Recently, the function of transferring the bot to another person appeared.

answered Nov 12 '20 at 14:15

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To transfer the bot you have to be able to attach a contact and as of 10 March 2022 you can't do that on MacOS, only on the phone – boatcoder Mar 10 '22 at 16:34

anatol · Answer 2 · 2020-12-26T17:19:46.740

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One of possible solutions (most simple as I wonder) is in the creation a new bot with same username. So only need to delete your old bot, create new and change bot token in your program code.

Note that it's possible only if the old bot's owner collaborates. To prevent similar situations your company need to create one telegram account for creating bots, channels etc., without ties to concrete persons.

UPD 2020

Telegram teem finally did the trick and added the changing ownership feature. Bingo. But this will not help if you can't ping an owner, same.

edited Dec 26 '20 at 17:19

answered Jul 06 '17 at 04:06

anatol

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Exact outline: `..company need to create one telegram account for creating bots, channels etc., without ties to concrete persons...` – T.Todua Oct 22 '19 at 20:03

Sean Wei · Answer 3 · 2021-07-17T13:46:48.317

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Please see Bekorchi's answer, it's possible to transfer bots since 2020 October.

Out-dated:

Not possible to transfer by @BotFather command at this time (2017 July).

You can contact human supporter @BotSupport, they may have permission to transfer that.

edited Jul 17 '21 at 13:46

answered Jul 05 '17 at 13:27

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thank you for answer, @BotSupport said this operation is not supported at the moment – Mansur Anorboev Jul 10 '17 at 07:44

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 05 '17 at 17:39

the developer can delete all of other bots and channel and chat history, then use CHANGE NUMBER in setting and transfer the bot to new virgin mobile number. after this, the developer can login again with his/her own mobile number to telegram as new account.