Facebook has actually now started supporting & playing GIFs animations, however the GIFs do not move if published directly to the Facebook website. There's a specific easy method which has to be practiced to make sure 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 Site along with Facebook Mobile App for Android & iPhone-iPad (iOS). This technique even lets you post GIFs as Facebook status upgrade, or in remarks, or in Personal Messaging also! How To Post Animated Gif On Facebook.

 

How To Post Animated Gif On 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 successfully 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 produce a new one utilizing the respective approaches.

Developing GIF on Android-- Use Graphica App for Android. Graphica even lets you produce GIFs utilizing frames, and has an inbuilt direct facebook share choice which you can directly utilize to share Andimated GIFs on Facebook.

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

Technique.

• Now, considering you have your GIF files prepared, 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 submit your GIFs and get the direct links. for example in our tutorial we will be utilizing Giphy.com as our image host.


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

Now it will begin publishing your GIF onto the Giphy server. Now you have to consent to their Terms of Service and after that 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" alternative.

• As soon as you select "Advanced" alternative 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 preview in Facebook & Twitter but Giphy Links do not animate by default and for this reason we are using the GIF Download Links.

• 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 doesn't load even if you pasted the

appropriate link, Please refill the page and attempt again up until the sneak peek appears. (If you're using the Facebook mobile app-- The very same approach obtains Facebook app as well, paste the direct link into Update Status field and work for the sneak peek to load.

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


• Quick Tip-- You can even get rid of the pasted link, when the preview is packed so that nobody can guess how you did it, If you face any issues while using this approach do not hesitate to comment.

We extremely recommend utilizing 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 also supplies awesome Frame Live GIFs choice so you can style your GIFs as well!

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