Facebook has now begun supporting & playing GIFs animations, however the GIFs do not move if uploaded straight to the Facebook site. There's a specific easy technique which has to be practiced to ensure that your GIFs always animate on Facebook-- So here's a little tutorial on how you can Include or Upload & Post animated GIFs on Facebook PC & mobile Website 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! How To Post A Gif To Facebook.

 

How To Post A Gif To 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 Posting it! That's it! (You have effectively included an animated GIF on Facebook-- Now let's take a look onto each action in information).

Pre-Requistes.

• A GIF You can utilize the existing GIFs or you can even produce a new one using the respective approaches.

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

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

Technique.

• Now, considering you have your GIF files ready, First off Upload the GIF files to an image-hosting website which supports hotlinking, (for e.g You can utilize Giphy.com, UltraImg.com to upload 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 listed below image.

Now it will start uploading your GIF onto the Giphy server. Now you have to consent to their Regards to Service and then click on the "Upload GIFs" button.

Now once you have actually 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" option.

• When you select "Advanced" alternative it will present you with various links, Now simply "Copy" "ctrl+ c" the GIF Download Link as displayed in the image below.

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

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

Note-- If the preview does not pack even if you pasted the

right link, Please refill the page and attempt again until the sneak peek appears. (If you're utilizing the Facebook mobile app-- The exact same technique requests Facebook app also, paste the direct link into Update Status field and work for the preview to load.

• Once the preview is loaded, Merely Click on "Post" and voila! you will see the GIF is animating and moving, thus you have actually successfully published Animated GIFs on Facebook!


• Quick Pointer-- You can even get rid of the pasted link, as soon as the sneak peek is loaded so that no one can think how you did it, If you face any problems while utilizing this approach don't hesitate to comment.

We extremely recommend using Graphica App for Android for publishing the GIFs on Facebook, as it automatically does the total task of developing GIF, publishing, and copy-pasting the URL for you, and besides it also provides amazing Frame Live GIFs option so you can style your GIFs too!

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