If you send a GIF from the Gboard GIF keyboard, the GIF loop will get cut short, but only for the sender (the recipient will see the original loop duration).
Workaround
If you Forward the GIF to another chat, or if you clear your cache, you will be able to play the sent GIF with the original loop duration.
Steps to reproduce
Open Saved Messages, open Gboard, tap on the GIF option to go to the Gboard GIF keyboard.
Type in this GIF search term, "dog sending hugs"
The first GIF result should be of a dog hugging a cat, with the text, "Sending Hugs".
This particular GIF can display the issue very well. For now, notice the GIF's original duration.
Send that GIF to your Saved Messages chat.
Try to play that sent GIF.
Current result
The GIF gets cut off extremely short, so it doesn't finish the playback duration before it immediately starts looping (the incorrect loop for this GIF is pretty noticeable).
Expected result
The GIF should loop the full duration, rather than get cut short.
I'm having the same issue and it always happens after showing the 200 gif limits pop-up, I think it could be related. Never had any issue before that limit.
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David 🍋
Same issue on my Pixel 4a 5G... interestingly the same GIF displays fine on the Desktop, just cut short on the mobile app...
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Serge
Same issue here. Happens to all the GIFs I send using the Android app. They work as intended for the receiver, broken/shortened on my end (Android) but working on desktop. App version: "Telegram for Android v8.8.4 (2711) store bundled arm64-v8a".
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Joel Albright
Same issue on Samsung Galaxy S21 FE Telegram v 8.8.4 (2711) store bundled arm64-v8a
Timelord
Same issue. Started happening in the last several weeks that I noticed. Uninstall and reinstall fixed it for several days before it broke again. May actually get worse over time or simply affect some gif more than others. Appears to possibly be a truncated data stream at a certain number of bytes possibly.
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Jeet B.
Facing the same Issue Android 12, with latest Telegram & GBoard version. Not facing this issue in iOS and Telegram X for Android.
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