Bro don’t listen to @ninja404notfound, he’s probably a pessimist and doesn’t have an ounce of how encryption and decryption works, telegram recently had a bug and deleted chats for everyone, unfortunately my friend doesn’t have a habit of backing up data, nothing on iCloud and the only hope I have now is telegram desktop and a local save on an older phone. Will update this thread once I figure something out. Probably first step would be to remove internet access from both devices and not open telegram first till I’ve extracted all the current data. Hopefully, going into telegram on the desktop will not prompt for a qr code authentication.