Telegram BOT Send Picture - No Preview on IOS

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Hello.

If someone sends me a picture in regular telegram, I see a preview of the picture on my lock screen and even on my apple watch.

However, when using Telegram Bot → Send Photo from HA, the bot successfully sends me the picture … but there is no picture preview on my phone notification or on my apple watch.

I’m reasonably sure that this was not always the case, but it’s hard for me to tell where this problem was brought on by an IOS upgrade, Telegram upgrade, HA upgrade, etc.

I guess there’s always a possibliity that this is the result of some Telgram setting that has gone bad, but I can’t seem to find anything like that in my Telegram or IOS settings.

Does anyone have any ideas on this?

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Hi!

I have the same problem. @BrianGGG have you solved this?

Stefan

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I was not able to solve this, although I have now seen enough evidence to think that this problem is bigger than HA. I am also having this problem to some extend in sending pictures Telegram to Telegram.

I scoured the internet, and there are others that are complaining but no answers. I saw a post saying that only compressed images would show up as previews, that turned out not to be true for me.

At this point, I can’t offer any solutions on this.