diff --git a/src/view/com/composer/Composer.tsx b/src/view/com/composer/Composer.tsx
index a2cf83c75e..a09aaab8c1 100644
--- a/src/view/com/composer/Composer.tsx
+++ b/src/view/com/composer/Composer.tsx
@@ -389,9 +389,15 @@ export const ComposePost = ({
       /*
        * Share-extension deeplinks deliver a video URI without duration, so
        * probe before we decide whether to compress. The picker and web paste
-       * paths already populate duration upstream.
+       * paths already populate duration upstream. GIFs must skip the probe:
+       * they have no video track, so the iOS prober never resolves or rejects
+       * and the await below would hang forever.
        */
-      if (asset.duration == null && IS_NATIVE) {
+      if (
+        asset.duration == null &&
+        IS_NATIVE &&
+        asset.mimeType !== 'image/gif'
+      ) {
         try {
           const probed = await getVideoMetadata(asset.uri)
           asset = {