Every mobile Telegram user knows the drill: the gray cloud icon appears, messages stall, and your first instinct is to reach for a proxy. By using an MTProto proxy from the free-mtproto-proxies repository (.
Quick Setup Steps for MTProto Proxy
iOS (Telegram for iPhone)
- Tap Settings → Data and Storage → Proxy → Add Proxy.
- Choose
MTProto. - Enter your server: hostname (in
tg://proxy?server=IP&port=443&secret=ee...format extract: Server, Port and Secret). - After entering, enable toggle.
To use a ready deep-link: your browser or Telegram client can open tg://proxy?server=12.34.56.78&port=443&secret=ee... which will bring a dialog to add the proxy automatically.
Android (Telegram apk from Telegram.org)
- Open Telegram Settings (three-line hamburger or swiping right).
- Data and Storage → Proxy.
- Hit the plus (+) icon. Choose "MTProto" if listed; otherwise "SOCKS5 proxy" fails.
- Paste proxy details. Enabled? The lightning icon must appear in the chat list status bar.
The fresh proxy list from the repo integrates regularly scraped MTProto proxies that work on both platforms.
Repo Dependability: Where I Get Working Links
Most mobile proxy share groups expire within 24 hours. Fake-TLS pairs survive longer. I combine two resources: the telegram channel @socks_proxy_list (volatile) and the http-accessible listing at the free-mtproto-proxies repository (updated via GitHub Actions each hour). That repo injects proxies that include the exact Secret format needed for Android's and iOS's strict parsers. For deep-diving: my previous piece on mTProto in China's situation explains why Fake-TLS matters: for crisis connection scenarios.
Mobile speed varies enormously with region. Always try Proxy → Enable and allow 10 seconds of idle before claiming "everything works." Connectivity is more enjoyable when the lightning icon stays yellow, not gray.
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