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prevent samsung keyboard from automatically adding or remembering / storing animated gifs from Telegram :(

Members_74kr8Q8 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:43:40 GMT

I uploaded a few private gifs to a private chat in Telegram, nothing special or so I thought.

BUT today I wanted to drop an animated gif in a public channel; I am using the Samsung Keyboard, which has a "gif" button directly to the left of your message typing field.

If I use that gif button, I am suddenly seeing (and been offered) the gifs I used in a private chat.

HOW!??

I have all the automatic download options disabled. I even emptied the app's cache etc and I went through some of the advanced options in regards to automatic downloading of media (which is disabled by default - who needs over 100,000 gifs and images!).

Nothing seems to help: all the gifs remain visible. I cannot find a folder where those gifs are. Even worse, I uploaded those gifs to my private chat from my Windows dekstop computer through my official desktop client. I have auto play enabled on Android and I have opened that chat at a later time on my phone too.

Please explain to me how this could happen? And how I could disable this feature? I see this as a privacy breach.

Thanks

Re: prevent samsung keyboard from automatically adding or remembering / storin..

arianwen27 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:25:10 GMT

I think you might be confusing telegrams built in gif feature with the one in samsung keyboard.

The keyboard on your phone has absolutely no idea about what you do on your pc.

But telegram does sync all your gifs across all your devices

Re: prevent samsung keyboard from automatically adding or remembering / storin..

Members_74kr8Q8 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:27:59 GMT

Thanks for your reply! I feel like I need to quote from my original post:
"I have all the automatic download options disabled. I even emptied the app's cache etc and I went through some of the advanced options in regards to automatic downloading of media (which is disabled by default - who needs over 100,000 gifs and images!)."

This only happened on my Samsung phone, with the Samsung keyboard.

I don't see how this is a Telegram "feature" or bug, seen that it never ever happened on my Google keyboards.

Thanks!