Woah, good thing I uninstalled WhatsApp ages ago
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Imessage or Telegram??
Neither, the former is only on iOS / various other Apple bits, the latter is awful in terms of privacy (arguably more so than Whatsapp)
I mainly use Matrix (Element on desktop, FluffyChat on Android, Fractal on mobile Linux) and email (Thunderbird), but I also have Halloy (IRC) installed to. As for any proprietary messaging services I use, it's mainly WeChat for messaging Chinese friends.
edit: I also have Signal, but pretty much no one in my circle uses it, as everybody who was bothered to switch to Signal went all the way and joined Matrix in my experience.
Good thing I never granted the read media permission. Whatsapp can use the default photo picker for pictures and video and repeatedly asks for storage permission claiming it becomes limited without it.
I need to manually invoke the media picker whenever I want to send a picture. This lock screen bypass does not work in my case since I never granted the storage or read media permission to whatsapp.
Yeah even I do the same for any app other than onedrive