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zulip/help/image-video-and-website-previews.md
Lauryn Menard b96d94f679 docs: Update sections for organization settings tab changes.
Updates help center, integration and contributor docs where for
the new subsections on the organization settings tab, which were
changed in #33605.

Previously, these settings were all in the "Other settings"
subsection for that organization settings tab.
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Image, video and website previews

Zulip displays previews of images, videos and websites in your message feed. To avoid disrupting the flow of conversation, these previews are small. You can configure how animated images are previewed, and organization administrators can also disable previews altogether.

Configure how animated images are played

In the desktop and web apps, you can configure previews of animated images to always show the animation, show it when you hover over the image with your mouse, or not show it at all. For large animated images, only the first part of the animation will be shown in the preview.

You can always see the full animated image by opening it in the image viewer.

!!! warn ""

This configuration applies only to images uploaded since July 21, 2024 on
Zulip Cloud, or on Zulip Server [9.0+](/help/view-zulip-version) in
self-hosted organizations. Previews of images uploaded earlier are always
animated.

{start_tabs}

{tab|desktop-web}

{settings_tab|preferences}

  1. Under Information, select the desired option from the Play animated images dropdown.

{end_tabs}

Configure whether image and video previews are shown

{!admin-only.md!}

{start_tabs}

{settings_tab|organization-settings}

  1. Under Message feeed settings, toggle Show previews of uploaded and linked images and videos.

{!save-changes.md!}

{end_tabs}

Configure whether website previews are shown

{!admin-only.md!}

{start_tabs}

{settings_tab|organization-settings}

  1. Under Message feed settings, toggle Show previews of linked websites.

{!save-changes.md!}

{end_tabs}

Security

To prevent images from being used to track Zulip users, Zulip proxies all external images in messages through the server.