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A11y: iOS Accessibility settings have no effect on animated gifs or Stickers in Signal chats
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Description
- I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates
- I am submitting a bug report for existing functionality that does not work as intended
- This isn't a feature request or a discussion topic
Bug description
iOS Accessibility settings have no effect on animated gifs or Stickers in Signal chats.
Steps to reproduce
- From iOS, go to Settings > Accessibility > Motion
- Toggle off Auto-Play Animated Images.
- From Settings > Accessibility > Per-App Settings, add Signal and ensure Auto-Play Animated Images is also toggled off
- View an animated GIF or Sticker in a Signal chat.
Actual result: The image animation runs continuously.
Expected result: The image animation does not run automatically and may be stopped or started manually. (Compare behavior in, e.g., iMessages)
Device info
Device: iPhone 13 Mini
iOS version: 18.1.1
Signal version: 7.42.1 (569)
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue on an iPhone with Auto-Play Animated Images disabled globally and for Signal, then trace the animated GIF and Sticker rendering paths in Signal-iOS. Done means both content types respect the iOS setting by not autoplaying and can be started or stopped manually.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- ios, swift
- Domain
- accessibility, mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 65/100