Facebook has now started supporting & playing GIFs animations, but the GIFs don't move if uploaded straight to the Facebook website. There's a particular basic technique which needs to be practiced to ensure that your GIFs always animate on Facebook-- So here's a small 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 approach even lets you post GIFs as Facebook status update, or in remarks, or in Private Messaging too! How To Post Gifs On Facebook.

 

How To Post Gifs On 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/ Comment/ Messaging) and Publishing it! That's it! (You have effectively included 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 new one using the respective techniques.

Developing GIF on Android-- Use Graphica App for Android. Graphica even lets you create GIFs using frames, and has an inbuilt direct facebook share option which you can straight utilize to share Andimated GIFs on Facebook.

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

Approach.

• Now, considering you have your GIF files all set, To start with 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 Submit your Existing GIF by drag and droping your GIFs onto the upload Window as revealed in the listed below image.

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

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

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

Note-- Giphy does notes that Giphy links preview in Facebook & Twitter however Giphy Hyperlinks do not animate 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 shown 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 again up until the preview appears. (If you're using the Facebook mobile app-- The very same approach gets Facebook app also, paste the direct link into Update Status field and work for the sneak peek to load.

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


• Quick Pointer-- You can even remove the pasted link, once the sneak peek is packed so that nobody can think how you did it, If you face any problems while using this technique don't hesitate to comment.

We extremely advise using Graphica App for Android for publishing the GIFs on Facebook, as it automatically does the complete job of producing GIF, uploading, and copy-pasting the URL for you, and besides it also provides incredible Frame Live GIFs alternative so you can style your GIFs also!

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