Facebook has now begun supporting & playing GIFs animations, but the GIFs don't move if submitted directly to the Facebook website. There's a specific basic technique which requires to be practiced to ensure 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 as well as Facebook Mobile App for Android & iPhone-iPad (iOS). This method even lets you publish GIFs as Facebook status update, or in remarks, or in Personal Messaging as well! Post Gif On Facebook.

 

Post 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/ Remark/ Messaging) and Publishing it! That's it! (You have actually effectively added an animated GIF on Facebook-- Now let's have a look onto each action in detail).

Pre-Requistes.

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

Creating GIF on Android-- Usage Graphica App for Android. Graphica even lets you develop GIFs using frames, and has an integrated direct facebook share choice which you can directly utilize to share Andimated GIFs on Facebook.

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

Approach.

• 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 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 submitting your GIF onto the Giphy server. Now you have to accept their Terms of Service then click the "Upload GIFs" button.

Now when 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" option.

• When you pick "Advanced" option it will provide you with different links, Now simply "Copy" "ctrl+ c" the GIF Download Link as revealed in the image below.

Note-- Giphy does notes that Giphy links preview in Facebook & Twitter but Giphy Hyperlinks do not animate by default and for this reason we are utilizing 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 doesn't fill even if you pasted the

correct link, Please reload the page and attempt once again up until the sneak peek appears. (If you're using the Facebook mobile app-- The very same method looks for Facebook app as well, paste the direct link into Update Status field and work for the preview to load.

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


• Quick Suggestion-- You can even remove the pasted link, once the preview is packed so that no one can guess how you did it, If you face any issues while utilizing this approach feel complimentary to comment.

We extremely recommend utilizing Graphica App for Android for publishing the GIFs on Facebook, as it automatically does the total task of developing GIF, uploading, and copy-pasting the URL for you, and besides it also supplies amazing Frame Live GIFs choice so you can design your GIFs as well!

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