Since 8.8 version when sharing anything the direct share feature is broken. It's enabled in settings but still you will get NO telegram contacts (targets) to share to. You will get Whatsapp and Duo and other apps with contacts but NOT Telegram. Until 8.7 it worked but also wrongly as the suggested contacts were useless (random). But they were there. Please see Direct Share doesn't show your frequent cha... #979 . If you can fix both of those issues you will get more people using Telegram. If every time you share all you get is Whatsapp do you think people will share to Telegram ? I am waiting for year and half for the first issue but now it's "solved" as I have no target at all. I tested this on OnePlus with Android 11 and the bug is also there.
Steps to reproduce
Share a image on android device
Check the suggested targets (first line, second lines are apps)
See you have NO Telegram targets available. They should be there, just like there are targets from Whatsapp or Duo.
This happens even when direct share is enabled in settings
Having same issue. In previous version I saw the DirectShare but only the groups not the individual chats. Now I see neither. Using HomeUp addon to Goodlock (on Samsung note 20)
Victor 🦉
Still happening in v8.9.0 (2750) 🤦🏻♂️
Simone de Blasiis
Same problem here on my Samsung S21 Ultra. I also have Good Lock with the Home Up plugin
The functionality is totally disabled as reported here. Even when it worked it was horrible, suggesting extremely weird contacts to share to. And then they don't understand why people use WhatsApp for sharing instead and they lose tons of users. What a shame.
Erbold Burmaa
Having the same problem on Note 20 Ultra (Android 12) even though Direct Share is enabled. This is annoying.
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Still the same bug in version 9.0.0 (28000). Nothing has changed at all since I reported the problem few months ago. I think it's quite a bad promotion for Telegram when everything gets shared to Whatsapp only (they even have the most used targets in the shortcuts). This is what people will share to and use, instead of the Telegram client :-( .
Andrés
Still present at Telegram in version 9.0.2 (2808) for Android (13 in my case). Please Telegram, just fix this issue!
ceeg
Still having this problem in current Telegram, AOSP Android 13. Shame, because correct contacts in Direct Share would save a lot of time for all of us.
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I also have Good Lock with the Home Up plugin
Please Telegram, just fix this issue!