{"id":40668,"date":"2023-09-15T16:56:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40668"},"modified":"2023-09-15T16:56:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T20:56:32","slug":"automatically-pausing-animated-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/15\/automatically-pausing-animated-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatically Pausing Animated Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/macos\/sonoma-preview\/pdf\/macOS_All_New_Features.PDF\">Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/macos\/sonoma-preview\/pdf\/macOS_All_New_Features.PDF\"><p>Pause animated images by default, such as GIFs in Messages and Safari for your visual comfort.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/2023\/9\/2.html\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/2023\/9\/2.html\"><p>In my opinion, the feature should have been highlighted in the WWDC keynote. It&rsquo;s that huge.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It would be better if you could just click the image to play and pause the animation, but the contextual menu is certainly <em>way<\/em> better than nothing! More than 30 years of nothing&#8230; until now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>And you can&rsquo;t see whether there <em>is<\/em> an animation until you click?<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/2023\/9\/2.html\"><p>By the way, I seem to have found a bug in Sonoma System Settings where the &ldquo;Auto-play animated images&rdquo; toggle button appears to be enabled after it has been disabled. This happens when you quit and relaunch the System Settings app.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It seems like the most important settings are in Accessibility.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/14\/ios-17-shipping-soon\/\">iOS 17 Shipping Soon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/13\/macos-14-sonoma-shipping-soon\/\">macOS 14 Sonoma Shipping Soon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/26\/stop-smooth-scrolling-in-safari-16-4\/\">Stop Smooth Scrolling in Safari 16.4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/25\/too-much-transparency-in-macos-13\/\">Too Much Transparency in macOS 13<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/29\/always-show-window-proxy-icons\/\">Always Show Window Proxy Icons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/12\/transparency-in-macos-10-14\/\">Transparency in macOS 10.14<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/19\/reduce-transparency-and-reduce-motion-in-macos-mojave\/\">Reduce Transparency and Reduce Motion in macOS Mojave<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple: Pause animated images by default, such as GIFs in Messages and Safari for your visual comfort. 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