Facebook has actually now begun supporting & playing GIFs animations, but the GIFs do not move if published directly to the Facebook site. There's a specific simple approach which requires to be practiced to ensure that your GIFs constantly animate on Facebook-- So here's a little tutorial on how you can Include 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 publish GIFs as Facebook status upgrade, or in remarks, or in Personal Messaging as well! How Do You Post A Gif On Facebook.

 

How Do You Post A Gif On Facebook

1. Getting the Direct URL of GIF from another host, That is uploading 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 added an animated GIF on Facebook-- Now let's take a look onto each step in detail).

Pre-Requistes.

• A GIF You can use the existing GIFs or you can even develop a brand-new one utilizing the particular approaches.

Developing GIF on Android-- Usage 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.

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

Approach.

• Now, considering you have your GIF files ready, Firstly Upload the GIF files to an image-hosting site which supports hotlinking, (for e.g You can use Giphy.com, UltraImg.com to upload your GIFs and get the direct links. for instance in our tutorial we will be using Giphy.com as our image host.


• Browse to http://giphy.com/upload and Submit your Existing GIF by drag and droping your GIFs onto the upload Window as revealed 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 then click the "Upload GIFs" button.

Now once you have uploaded your GIF onto Giphy, it will pack a sneak peek window, Now scroll-down to the bottom of the GIF image sneak peek and choose "Advanced" alternative.

• As soon as you pick "Advanced" option it will present 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 hence we are using the GIF Download Hyperlinks.

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

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

correct link, Please refill the page and try again up until the sneak peek appears. (If you're using the Facebook mobile app-- The exact same approach requests Facebook app too, paste the direct link into Update Status field and work for the sneak peek to load.

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


• Quick Pointer-- You can even get rid of the pasted link, as soon as the preview is filled so that nobody can guess how you did it, If you deal with any issues while using this technique do not hesitate to comment.

We highly recommend using Graphica App for Android for posting the GIFs on Facebook, as it immediately does the total job of creating GIF, uploading, and copy-pasting the URL for you, and besides it likewise offers remarkable Frame Live GIFs option so you can design your GIFs too!

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