Telegram's inability to mass delete chats from "Deleted Accounts"—especially those with no reply—represents a serious design flaw. This oversight clutters the interface with noise, degrading usability and turning the app into a frustrating experience for active users.
Telegram users regularly receive unsolicited messages. When those senders delete their accounts, their chats linger as purposeless remnants—"ghost" chats. Over time, they accumulate, crowding out meaningful conversations and polluting the chat list.
The interface grows increasingly noisy and inefficient. Users must sift through dozens or hundreds of "Deleted Account" entries, introducing constant friction and degrading the signal-to-noise ratio expected of any communication tool.
As noise increases, Telegram becomes harder to navigate. The only solution—deleting chats one by one—is unscalable and burdensome.
By not offering tools to manage this noise, Telegram undermines its own platform. This isn't a missing convenience—it's a core usability failure that grows with user engagement.