Facebook has actually now begun supporting & playing GIFs animations, however the GIFs don't move if published directly to the Facebook site. There's a specific simple technique which has to be practiced to make sure that your GIFs always animate on Facebook-- So here's a small tutorial on how you can Include or Upload & Post animated GIFs on Facebook PC & mobile Website as well as Facebook Mobile App for Android & iPhone-iPad (iOS). This approach even lets you post GIFs as Facebook status upgrade, or in comments, or in Personal Messaging too! Post Animated Gif On Facebook.

 

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

Pre-Requistes.

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

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

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

Technique.

• Now, considering you have your GIF files all set, To start with Upload the GIF files to an image-hosting website which supports hotlinking, (for e.g You can utilize Giphy.com, UltraImg.com to submit your GIFs and get the direct links. for example 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 start submitting your GIF onto the Giphy server. Now you require to accept their Regards to Service then click on the "Upload GIFs" button.

Now as soon as you have actually 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" choice.

• Once you choose "Advanced" choice it will present you with various 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 however Giphy Links do not stimulate 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 up until the sneak peek loads as shown in the image below.

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

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

• Once the preview is packed, Just Click on "Post" and voila! you will see the GIF is animating and moving, therefore you have successfully published Animated GIFs on Facebook!


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

We extremely advise utilizing Graphica App for Android for publishing the GIFs on Facebook, as it immediately does the complete job of producing GIF, publishing, and copy-pasting the URL for you, and besides it also supplies amazing Frame Live GIFs option so you can design your GIFs as well!

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