Replies jump to the image
Click the Image quote under a reply and the chat scrolls back to the original photo, then rings it for a moment. If the picture is buried in older history, the app loads that first.
You tap the Image quote under a reply, in a direct chat or an org channel. The thread slides, the original photo settles in the middle of the screen, and a ring blooms around the picture. If the photo is older than what your chat has loaded, you wait while earlier messages arrive, then the same landing happens. No error toast, no hunting.
Credit goes to xHeaven, who gave image-only messages the same jump target that text and voice bubbles already had. The thread checks the screen first. If the message is not there, it fetches older pages one at a time until it reaches the picture or runs out of history. Then it centers the image and holds the ring for 1,200 milliseconds. Tapping another quote cancels the jump already in flight. Direct and org chats both work.
One catch. A picture with a caption still jumps to its text. The image only becomes the target when the message has no words and no voice note, so the quote under a captioned photo takes you to the caption instead of the picture.