Telegram Web inconsistency: showing as “read” a message sent yesterday but also showing “last seen over a week ago”. How is it possible

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Yesterday i sent a message to one of my contacts, after a few hours the message showed the double check, so it was marked as read, but the last access was still over a week ago. Does anyone know how is it possible? I tried to browse the web and i found out that Telegram Web sometimes screws up with the "Last seen" feature, so maybe that's the issue, does anyone know more about it?

I already did some experiments:

  • tapping "Mark as read" on the telegram notification also changes your status to online;
  • turning on airplane mode / disabling Wi-Fi before reading the message does not show the message as read until Telegram is opened again with an internet connection, so this also affect the online status.

Best Answer

It happens when the user has changed his show Last seen & online settings. It is a privacy setting, and one may hide his/her last seen status from everyone or selectively from some people.