Facebook has now begun supporting & playing GIFs animations, but the GIFs don't move if published straight to the Facebook website. There's a specific simple technique which needs 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 in addition to Facebook Mobile App for Android & iPhone-iPad (iOS). This method even lets you publish GIFs as Facebook status update, or in comments, or in Private Messaging too! Post Gif To Facebook.

 

Post Gif To 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 Posting it! That's it! (You have actually successfully included an animated GIF on Facebook-- Now let's take a look onto each action in detail).

Pre-Requistes.

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

Producing 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 directly use to share Andimated GIFs on Facebook.

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

Technique.

• Now, considering you have your GIF files ready, First off Upload the GIF files to an image-hosting website which supports hotlinking, (for e.g You can utilize Giphy.com, UltraImg.com to publish 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 Upload your Existing GIF by drag and droping your GIFs onto the upload Window as displayed in the listed below image.

Now it will start publishing your GIF onto the Giphy server. Now you have to accept their Regards to Service and then click on the "Upload GIFs" button.

Now as soon as you have published 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" option.

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

Note-- Giphy does notes that Giphy links sneak peek in Facebook & Twitter but Giphy Links do not animate by default and hence we are utilizing the GIF Download Hyperlinks.

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

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

correct link, Please refill the page and attempt once again until the preview appears. (If you're utilizing the Facebook mobile app-- The same approach makes an application for Facebook app too, paste the direct link into Update Status field and work for the preview to load.

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


• Quick Idea-- You can even get rid of the pasted link, once the sneak peek is filled so that no one can think how you did it, If you deal with any issues while using this approach do not hesitate to comment.

We highly recommend using Graphica App for Android for posting the GIFs on Facebook, as it instantly does the complete job of developing GIF, publishing, and copy-pasting the URL for you, and besides it also provides incredible Frame Live GIFs choice so you can design your GIFs also!

Tweet