Memoji appearing with white background in newest version but not prior

[notnicehat]

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• [x] I am submitting a bug report for existing functionality that does not work as intended
• [x] This isn't a feature request or a discussion topic

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Bug description

In 5.2.0.4 Signal iOS memoji are appearing from my phone (and others with the same version) with a white square background. Users with prior versions (5.1.x) Signal IOS posting memoji in the same chat have backgrounds that are transparent or otherwise match the light/dark appearance.

Steps to reproduce

• In chat with someone (group or 1-1)
• Click bottom left emoji icon
• swipe from left to right to get to iOS memoji stickers
• post memoji sticker

Actual result: Describe here what happens after you run the steps above (i.e. the buggy behaviour)

• appears in chat with white background

Expected result: Describe here what should happen after you run the steps above (i.e. what would be the correct behaviour)

• appears in chat with no background

Screenshots

You can see my cow with white background, my friend's warthog without.

Device info

Device: My (problematic) device: iPhone 11Pro My friend's (fine) device: iPhone 12Mini

iOS version: 14.3 both

Signal version: My problematic device: 5.2.0.4 My friend's fine device: 5.1.0.31

Link to debug log

My log: https://debuglogs.org/2b32d776562dacd69947667abf1b90ad04011f3b1759435735e63b6cb46c61af.zip My friend's log: https://debuglogs.org/8ad137c3135d84fdbb928cacd3ca14831bf63254048ceeb1d91a70961145db1c.zip

not a crashing bug

[ankitsharma07]

yeah, this is been reported in the 5.2.0.4 version

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[janruplays]

I still can't find a fix for this. Sad.