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A11y: iOS Accessibility settings have no effect on animated gifs or Stickers in Signal chats #5949

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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)

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