Direct share seemingly chooses random contacts and not the most recent chats.
Please fix the Direct Sharing targets in Telegram. For years I am getting some very weird targets while sharing something to Telegram contacts. FIrst of all update Telegram to use the new Sharing Shortcuts API. In the new Sharing Shortcuts API (but also in the old ChooserTargetService) please publish the most used contacts, or the most "shared to" contacts. For years I am getting totally random useless targets in the dialog. If it's too hard to publish the most frequently used targets then at least use the "pinned" contacts as targets. This will make sharing to Telegram a much better experience. Thank you !
Steps to reproduce
Share anything in Android
You will get a dialog with targets to share to
The bug is in the first line of those targets, at least two come from Telegram but they are picked in some random manner or with no logic
The fix should replace those targets much more usable contacts like the most used contacts or pinned contacts
Installed Telegram for Android v8.3.2 directly from telegram(not Google Play store)
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Thanks to "Admin Dog" that merged my bug report to this one with all my additions. I hope they will make Direct Share usable very soon as it's a really nice feature when it works.
It's a year later. Zero was done to fix this problem and it's very annoying. Direct sharing works with other apps but doesn't work with Telegram. I still NEVER direct share to my wife - which is my most frequent contact for sharing. Now I am on Android 12 with Samsung phone. Even Good Lock can't make my wife appear ! I think it's time to put this issue to rest, please devs fix it already.
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Geobert
still relevant on 8.8.5
Carlos Garcia
still not working in version 8.8.6
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Bread
Now the feature doesn't work at all, no contacts are suggested from telegram even after direct share is enabled from the app. Tried with both Google play and website versions.
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Dear Bread, you are correct. please check/press on like and report in my new bug report here:
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