Unable to share an Animated Image (GIF) on iOS

Steps to reproduce

1. Save a GIF locally on the device
2. Use Share.open() on iOS

Expected behaviour

Sharing successfully the GIF on Social Medias. Watching a preview of it inside messaging chats.

Actual behaviour

On Android works very well using only the base64.

On iOS: If I share the base64 nothing will be shared. Instead, following the Troubleshooting on the Readme I used the file path directly:

• On Telegram the image is shared in a weird way, like a file.
• On Whatsapp is shared only the text.

let shareOptions = { title: 'Share via', type: 'image/gif', message: 'this is an animated GIF', url: response.path };

Result sharing the GIF on Telegram:

Result sharing the GIF on Whatsapp:

react-native-share

Version: 1.1.3

[AlicanAkyol]

If you want to share image or gif file, you can remove message. It runs.

[univers3]

I’m having the same problem! It’s very frustrating because this issue turns the module totally useless for iOS and GIFs 😢