From 4f5119fac0ab857decae2c5d0fde340c2afa3b6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Spence Pope <spencerfpope@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 17:53:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix camera roll gif selection hanging on ios (#11074)

---
 src/view/com/composer/Composer.tsx | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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 = {