Telegram Bot Permissions: What Limzo Needs

Limzo asks for two rights on top of admin status, and uses each one for specific jobs:

• Admin status — required for everything, stats included (see the next section).
• Delete messages — removes spam and scam links, messages caught by the word filter or the language lock, blocked stickers, and join/leave notices if you switch that on.
• Ban users (in the Mini App: Restrict or ban users) — mutes and bans offenders, and runs the newcomer check, raid protection, quiet hours, the /mute, /ban and /kick commands, and the removal of inactive members and deleted accounts.
• Manage Tags — optional, used only if you turn on Set badge as Telegram tag, which shows a member’s level badge next to their name.

Limzo needs none of the other rights, such as changing group info, pinning messages or adding new admins, so you can leave them off.

Admin status is not optional, even for stats only: Telegram delivers group messages to a bot only once it is an admin, and admin rights are also what let Limzo read group metadata, admin lists, linked channels, member counts, and permission state. Added without admin rights, Limzo stays switched off and collects nothing: it posts one line saying what it needs, waits 24 hours for an admin to promote it, and then leaves on its own.

Only the group owner, or an admin who is allowed to add new admins, can change Limzo’s rights.

1. On a phone: open the group, tap its name at the top, then Edit (iPhone) or the pencil icon (Android). On Telegram Desktop: open the group, then ⋮ (top right) → Manage group.
2. Tap Administrators. If Limzo is on the list, tap it; if not, tap Add Admin and pick Limzo.
3. Switch on Delete messages and Ban users.
4. Save the change.

Telegram tells Limzo about the change straight away, so you don’t need to restart or re-add anything.

Open the Limzo Mini App again and pick the group:

1. The Needs attention card at the top of the menu no longer lists Make Limzo an admin, Allow deleting messages or Allow ban/restrict users. Once the card has no items left, it is gone.
2. Permissions, in the Group section of the menu, says Limzo has everything it needs.

The Mini App reads Limzo’s rights when it opens, so close it completely and open it again if an item is still there.

Two cases admins run into most:

• A spam link stays in the chat. Limzo can’t remove it because Delete messages is off. Turn it on with the steps above, and the next spam link is removed. Also check that moderation is switched on in the Mini App: it starts off.
• The same accounts keep posting spam. Limzo deletes their messages but can’t mute the senders, because Ban users is off; if it keeps happening, Limzo says so in the group. Turn on Ban users, and offenders get your group’s usual mute or ban.

Either way, the Mini App’s Permissions page shows which right is missing.

While Limzo is still an admin, it keeps tracking everything it can and simply shows the affected moderation actions as unavailable until the rights are restored.

Demoting Limzo to a plain member stops moderation and reliable tracking, so it does not stay indefinitely: it sends an admin a private heads-up and steps out of the group after a 24-hour grace period. Re-promote it inside that window and nothing is lost — your settings and history stay exactly as they were. If the admin who demoted it has never opened a chat with Limzo, the heads-up also goes into the group with a tag for them, and if moderation was off and spam got through that week, it says how much.

Most rights problems come down to one of these:

• The switches are greyed out, or there is no Add Admin option: your admin role can’t add admins. Ask the owner, or an admin who can add new admins.
• The rights are on, but the Mini App still shows one missing: close the Mini App completely and open it again. If it still shows, switch that right off, save, switch it back on and save again: each change sends Limzo its current rights.
• Limzo already left the group: add it again from your chat with Limzo with Add Limzo to your group; it joins as an admin with the rights it needs already switched on. The setup guide has the steps.
• Still stuck: ask in @LimzoChat or write to [email protected]. Say which group it is and what the Permissions page shows.

Changing Limzo’s rights never touches your settings or stats.