Facebook has actually now started supporting & playing GIFs animations, but the GIFs don't move if published straight to the Facebook site. There's a particular easy approach which needs to be practiced to make sure that your GIFs constantly animate on Facebook-- So here's a little tutorial on how you can Include or Upload & Post animated GIFs on Facebook PC & mobile Site along with Facebook Mobile App for Android & iPhone-iPad (iOS). This method even lets you post GIFs as Facebook status update, or in comments, or in Personal Messaging as well! Can You Post A Gif On Facebook.

 

Can You Post A Gif On Facebook

1. Getting the Direct URL of GIF from another host, That is submitting GIF on some other server and copying its Direct Link.

2. Pasting the Direct Link of GIF into the Facebook Text Window (Status/ Remark/ Messaging) and Publishing it! That's it! (You have actually effectively included an animated GIF on Facebook-- Now let's take a look onto each action in detail).

Pre-Requistes.

• A GIF You can use the existing GIFs or you can even develop a new one utilizing the respective methods.

Creating GIF on Android-- Use Graphica App for Android. Graphica even lets you create GIFs using frames, and has an integrated direct facebook share choice which you can directly utilize to share Andimated GIFs on Facebook.

Create a GIF on iPhone-- Follow this connected tutorial to Develop & View GIFs on iPhone (Uploading GIFs to facebook will need some additonal approaches).

Approach.

• Now, considering you have your GIF files all set, To start with Upload the GIF files to an image-hosting website which supports hotlinking, (for e.g You can use Giphy.com, UltraImg.com to publish your GIFs and get the direct links. for example in our tutorial we will be using Giphy.com as our image host.


• Navigate to http://giphy.com/upload and Publish your Existing GIF by drag and droping your GIFs onto the upload Window as displayed in the below image.

Now it will begin publishing your GIF onto the Giphy server. Now you have to accept their Terms of Service and after that click on the "Upload GIFs" button.

Now once you have uploaded your GIF onto Giphy, it will fill a sneak peek window, Now scroll-down to the bottom of the GIF image preview and choose "Advanced" alternative.

• Once you select "Advanced" option it will provide you with different links, Now merely "Copy" "ctrl+ c" the GIF Download Link as shown in the image below.

Note-- Giphy does notes that Giphy links preview in Facebook & Twitter however Giphy Links do not animate by default and for this reason we are utilizing the GIF Download Hyperlinks.

• Now, Open Facebook.com-- And Paste the GIF Download Link into the "Update Status" field, and wait up until the sneak peek loads as revealed in the image below.

Note-- If the preview doesn't load even if you pasted the

appropriate link, Please reload the page and try once again up until the preview appears. (If you're utilizing the Facebook mobile app-- The exact same technique requests Facebook app too, paste the direct link into Update Status field and work for the sneak peek to load.

• Once the preview is packed, Merely Click "Post" and voila! you will see the GIF is stimulating and moving, hence you have effectively published Animated GIFs on Facebook!


• Quick Pointer-- You can even get rid of the pasted link, when the sneak peek is loaded so that no one can guess how you did it, If you deal with any issues while using this approach do not hesitate to comment.

We extremely suggest using Graphica App for Android for posting the GIFs on Facebook, as it instantly does the total job of creating GIF, uploading, and copy-pasting the URL for you, and besides it likewise provides remarkable Frame Live GIFs choice so you can design your GIFs as well!

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