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by danicgross 1738 days ago
Would turning off iMessage protect from this? Or would the iPhone still process the GIF through SMS somehow...?
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Great question. Every cell carrier processes images before delivering to the recipient. Like, if you send 3 or more photos almost every cell carrier will downsize the images. While this isn't an extensive test, I just tried renaming a PDF to a GIF and it failed to send on Google Voice and T-Mobile.
You can disable MMS in

    Settings -> Messages -> MMS Messaging.