Privacy settings

There are 8 "types" (keys) of privacy settings, which are separate from each other:

• Status Timestamp - Whether users can see your last active timestamp (also affects whether you can see the other person's)
• Chat Invite - Whether you can be invited to chats
• Phone Call - Whether you will accept phone calls
• Phone P2P - Whether you allow P2P communication during VoIP calls
• Forwards - Whether messages forwarded from you will be anonymous
• Profile Photo - Whether people will be able to see your profile picture
• Phone Number - Whether people will be able to see your phone number
• Added By Phone - Whether people can add you to their contact list by your phone number

For each of these, you have 8 modes (rules):

• All telegram users
• Your contacts only
• Only selected users
• Everyone from a certain chat
• Everyone except your contacts
• Everyone except selected users
• Everyone except users from a certain chat
• Nobody

To set any of these, you need a key to work on and a list of values, which will be a global rule, such as InputPrivacyValueAllowAll and exceptions, such as allowing or disallowing specific users.

Last seen example

To allow no one except "@best_friend" to see your last seen, you would use this:

from telethon import TelegramClient
from telethon.tl.functions.account import SetPrivacyRequest
from telethon.tl.types import InputPrivacyKeyStatusTimestamp, InputPrivacyValueAllowUsers,\
    InputPrivacyValueDisallowAll

client = TelegramClient(session, api_id, api_hash).start()
bff = client.get_input_entity('@best_friend')

key = InputPrivacyKeyStatusTimestamp()  # working with last seen privacy

rule = InputPrivacyValueDisallowAll()  # main rule is to disallow everyone
exceptions = InputPrivacyValueAllowUsers([bff])  # more people can be allowed
values = [rule, exceptions]

client(SetPrivacyRequest(key, values))