Facebook has now started supporting & playing GIFs animations, however the GIFs do not move if uploaded directly to the Facebook site. There's a particular simple method which has to be practiced to ensure that your GIFs always stimulate on Facebook-- So here's a little tutorial on how you can Add or Upload & Post animated GIFs on Facebook PC & mobile Website as well as Facebook Mobile App for Android & iPhone-iPad (iOS). This method even lets you post GIFs as Facebook status upgrade, or in remarks, or in Private Messaging too! Facebook Post Gif.

 

Facebook Post Gif

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 effectively included an animated GIF on Facebook-- Now let's take a look onto each action in information).

Pre-Requistes.

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

Producing GIF on Android-- Usage Graphica App for Android. Graphica even lets you produce GIFs utilizing 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 linked tutorial to Produce & View GIFs on iPhone (Uploading GIFs to facebook will need some additonal approaches).

Approach.

• Now, considering you have your GIF files all set, First of all Upload the GIF files to an image-hosting website which supports hotlinking, (for e.g You can utilize Giphy.com, UltraImg.com to submit 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 revealed in the listed below image.

Now it will begin submitting 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 as soon as you have published your GIF onto Giphy, it will load a sneak peek window, Now scroll-down to the bottom of the GIF image sneak peek and select "Advanced" choice.

• Once you pick "Advanced" choice it will provide you with numerous links, Now simply "Copy" "ctrl+ c" the GIF Download Link as shown in the image below.

Note-- Giphy does notes that Giphy links preview in Facebook & Twitter but Giphy Links 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 preview loads as displayed in the image below.

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

proper link, Please reload the page and try again until the sneak peek appears. (If you're using the Facebook mobile app-- The same method looks for Facebook app also, paste the direct link into Update Status field and work for the sneak peek to load.

• Once the sneak peek is packed, Simply Click on "Post" and voila! you will see the GIF is animating and moving, thus you have actually successfully posted Animated GIFs on Facebook!


• Quick Suggestion-- You can even eliminate the pasted link, as soon as the sneak peek is loaded so that nobody can think how you did it, If you deal with any problems while utilizing this method don't hesitate to comment.

We highly recommend using Graphica App for Android for posting the GIFs on Facebook, as it instantly does the total job 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 also!

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