Facebook has actually now started supporting & playing GIFs animations, but the GIFs do not move if uploaded directly to the Facebook site. There's a particular simple technique which requires to be practiced to ensure that your GIFs constantly animate on Facebook-- So here's a small 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 publish GIFs as Facebook status update, or in remarks, or in Personal Messaging as well! How Do You Post A Gif To Facebook.

 

How Do You Post A Gif To Facebook

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

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

Pre-Requistes.

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

Creating GIF on Android-- Use Graphica App for Android. Graphica even lets you create GIFs utilizing frames, and has an inbuilt direct facebook share alternative which you can directly use to share Andimated GIFs on Facebook.

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

Technique.

• Now, considering you have your GIF files ready, 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 utilizing Giphy.com as our image host.


• Browse 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 uploading your GIF onto the Giphy server. Now you require to concur to their Terms of Service and after that click 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" option.

• When you choose "Advanced" option it will provide you with different 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 Links do not animate by default and hence we are utilizing the GIF Download Hyperlinks.

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

Note-- If the sneak peek does not pack even if you pasted the

proper link, Please reload the page and attempt once again until the sneak peek appears. (If you're utilizing the Facebook mobile app-- The exact same technique makes an application for Facebook app as well, paste the direct link into Update Status field and work for the preview to load.

• Once the sneak peek is loaded, Just Click on "Post" and voila! you will see the GIF is animating and moving, therefore you have effectively published Animated GIFs on Facebook!


• Quick Suggestion-- You can even eliminate the pasted link, as soon as the sneak peek is filled so that no one can guess how you did it, If you face any problems while using this approach do not hesitate to comment.

We highly suggest using Graphica App for Android for posting the GIFs on Facebook, as it immediately does the total task of developing GIF, uploading, and copy-pasting the URL for you, and besides it also offers amazing Frame Live GIFs choice so you can style your GIFs as well!

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