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In this guide

Tap Privacy & Security
Scroll down and tap Invites
Choose My Contacts or Nobody
Add anyone who may still add you, then tap the tick
Check the Invites row
If you do not see this option
If this does not work
Good to know
Sources

Quick answer

Open Telegram Settings, Privacy & Security, Invites, and choose My Contacts or Nobody under Who can add me? Calls, on the same list, has the same three choices for who can call you.

5 of 5 steps with real screenshots · 1 official source below

Device: Android
Shown on: Google Pixel 10a, Android 17, Telegram 13.1.1
App: Telegram
Real screenshots: 5 of 5 steps
Checked: October 2026
Sources: 1 official, linked below

Step by step

Tap Privacy & Security
It is in the Settings list, below Chat Settings.
Done
Scroll down and tap Invites
It is the last row under Privacy, below Saved Music. Ours said Everybody.
Done
Choose My Contacts or Nobody
Under Who can add me?, tap the option you want. Never Allow adds exceptions.
Done
Add anyone who may still add you, then tap the tick
With Nobody picked, ours swapped Never Allow for Always Allow, Add Users.
Done
Check the Invites row
Back on Privacy and Security, after we saved My Contacts, ours read Invites: Contacts & Premium, not My Contacts. We set it back to Everybody afterwards.
Done

If you do not see this option

Looking for Groups & Channels? Our Telegram 13.1.1 lists it as Invites. The page itself says: You can restrict who can add you to groups and channels.
Help page says Privacy and Security? Telegram's FAQ names the page Privacy and Security; on our Telegram 13.1.1 the Settings row reads Privacy & Security. Source: Who can see my phone number?
Row says Contacts & Premium? That is what ours showed after we picked My Contacts and saved. It is the same setting with a different label on the list.

If this does not work

Still added to a group? The setting stops new adds. Leave the group from its menu, then check Invites says My Contacts or Nobody.
One person can still add you? Check Always Allow. With Nobody or My Contacts picked, anyone listed there can still add you; ours had Add Users under it.