Handing over a channel or leaving the service without losing anything
What happens to scheduled posts and settings when a channel changes owner, and what a clean exit looks like.
A service is judged not only by how you get in but by how you get out. Two common cases: handing a channel over and leaving entirely.
Handing a channel to someone else
In Telegram ownership changes in the channel’s own settings. For the bot that means rights remain, but a different person now controls them.
Worth doing before the handover:
- Publish or delete everything scheduled — otherwise posts go out under the new owner.
- Check the channel signature: it may still hold your link.
- Decide whether you stay an admin. If not, the bot keeps publishing on schedule but you can no longer manage it from your app.
Leaving entirely
A decent service lets you delete the account yourself, without writing to support. A sensible procedure looks like this:
Immediately. Incoming messages stop, scheduled posts become drafts, moderation goes quiet. That is honest: the service no longer acts on your behalf.
A grace period. A few weeks to change your mind, because deletion decisions are often made in anger. Ours is 90 days, cancelled with one button.
Full erasure. Profile, conversations, posts and files are erased for good. What remains is an anonymised record of the deletion, needed if a dispute appears later.
See how it works on the data and security page.