Setting to turn off auto play on GIFs on mobile devices - accessibility setting
The mobile Discord app has settings to turn off animated emojis and stickers, but not GIFs. Many GIFs move quickly, flicker, and have flashing lights. This cause eye strain to me which can trigger headaches, and could also affect other users who have photosensitivity. This also makes it difficult to type or respond to someone when there is a repetitive and fast motion playing on the screen. Please add the setting to turn off GIFs autoplay. Twitter has this feature, where there is a play button on the GIF, and to view the GIF you tap it to play.
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Second this. And can we please also have the ability to apply separate sets of settings to individual servers? I only have one where they often use gifs and emojis that move too fast for me - major migraine trigger as well as potentially setting off epileptic fits in others - and I don't like being forced to turn off images in all my servers just to deal with that one.
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I'd love this.
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That'd be useful on desktop too!
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On desktop, you can turn off "Automatically play GIFs when Discord is focused"
On mobile, there is no such option for gifs, but there *is* an option for animated stickers to only animate on long press.
What we need on mobile is either another option for like that for non-sticker animated content, or to just have the sticker option change to apply to all animated content.
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This would also help so much for people with ADHD because we get easily distracted by movement. If there's a moving GIF in chat I can barely focus on what I want to say/typing it out. I usually type a lot of really short messages until I can't see it anymore, but honestly having a feature for the GIF to not play it all would be so much more idea.
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