Share files and find shared content
Send photos, videos and files to a chat straight from other apps on your phone, and find the photos, files and links shared in your conversations.
Share from other apps
Section titled “Share from other apps”On iPhone and Android, you can send photos, videos and files to a DonutChat chat from Photos, Files and other apps. This is also how you send audio files from your phone.
- In another app, select up to 10 photos, videos or files and tap Share.
- Choose DonutChat. The sheet shows which account you’re sharing as.
- Under Send to, tap a chat.
- Tap Send. When the files are delivered, you see Sent.
You need to be signed in to DonutChat. If an upload fails, tap Retry Send; finished uploads and the chat you chose are kept.
- In another app, share one or more photos, videos or files and choose DonutChat.
- On Share attachments, choose a chat. Use Search chats to find one, or More chats to load more.
- Tap Send. To discard the share instead, tap Cancel.
If you’re signed out, sign in first; the share waits for you. Sharing doesn’t change your drafts. You can share one batch at a time.
What you can share:
- Up to 10 files and 100 MiB in total per share.
- Files are sent as they are, without optimizing, so each must meet the size limits. For example, a photo over 10 MiB is refused.
- All the files arrive in one message with the caption ”📎 File”.
- Text and web links can’t be shared into DonutChat.
- Discover topic chats and blocked chats aren’t listed.
If DonutChat can’t confirm that the files were delivered, it tells you. Check the chat before sharing again so you don’t post them twice.
The desktop app and the web app can’t receive shares from other apps. In the desktop app, drag files onto a conversation instead (see Paste or drop files).
Find shared items across chats
Section titled “Find shared items across chats”On iPhone, Android and the web app:
- Open the Activity tab and choose Shared.
- Filter by type with All, Photos, Videos, Files, Links or Audio. To see one chat only, select All chats and pick the chat.
- To search file names, captions, link titles and addresses, use Search files, captions and links.
- Select an item to open it.
Items are grouped by date, newest first. Photos open in the viewer, videos open in the player without starting automatically, and links open the usual way.
Select More on an item for Show in chat, Save (files only), Copy link and Share. Save stores the file in Files on iPhone, asks where to save it on Android, and downloads it in the web app.
Shared covers your direct chats, groups, My Memo and thread replies. It doesn’t include feed chats, such as Discover topic chats, or article discussions. If you left a chat and later rejoined it, items shared before you left aren’t shown.
In the desktop app, click Saved and open the Files & links tab. Search with Search files and links, filter by All types, Images, Videos, Audio, Files or Links, and click Open message to go to the message an item came from.
See what’s shared in one chat
Section titled “See what’s shared in one chat”On iPhone, Android and the web app:
- Open the chat and select Chat info.
- Select Shared content.
| Section | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Media | Up to 6 recent photos and videos. See All opens a grid of the chat’s photos. |
| Links | Up to 4 recent links and the total number. Links open in your browser rather than the in-app browser. |
| Polls | The latest poll and its results. Select it to see all of the chat’s polls and vote. |
| Pinned Messages | How many messages are pinned. Select it to see them. |
| Storage | How much of the chat’s storage is used. See Chat storage. |
In the desktop app, open the chat’s details panel and choose the Files tab to see that chat’s files and links, with search and a type filter.