Facebook has now begun supporting & playing GIFs animations, however the GIFs don't move if uploaded directly to the Facebook website. There's a specific easy method which has to be practiced to guarantee 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 Site in addition to 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! Post A Gif To Facebook.

 

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 Posting it! That's it! (You have actually successfully added an animated GIF on Facebook-- Now let's take a look onto each step in information).

Pre-Requistes.

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

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

Develop a GIF on iPhone-- Follow this linked tutorial to Create & 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 site 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 Upload 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 need to accept their Regards to Service and after that click on the "Upload GIFs" button.

Now once you have actually submitted your GIF onto Giphy, it will fill a preview window, Now scroll-down to the bottom of the GIF image preview and select "Advanced" choice.

• Once you select "Advanced" option it will provide you with various links, Now just "Copy" "ctrl+ c" the GIF Download Link as shown 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 for this reason we are using the GIF Download Hyperlinks.

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

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

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

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


• Quick Idea-- You can even eliminate the pasted link, as soon as the preview is packed so that no one can think how you did it, If you deal with any issues while utilizing this technique don't hesitate to comment.

We extremely advise using Graphica App for Android for publishing the GIFs on Facebook, as it immediately does the total job of developing GIF, submitting, and copy-pasting the URL for you, and besides it also provides awesome Frame Live GIFs option so you can design your GIFs as well!

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