If you’d rather use your own third party keyboard like Gboard or GIPHY to look for GIFs, that’s fine as well. Step 4: You’ll now get to the familiar GIF editing page, the Live Photo will now start playing as a GIF. Step 3: Swipe up, while holding the 3D Touch, and you’ll see 3 options appear. This will still show a still image, it won’t play the Live Photo. Step 1: From the “ Photo and Video Library“, find the Live Photo you want to share. The only problem is that the feature is basically hidden under 3D Touch action. Next time you’re in the “GIF” section, tap the “Starred” tab and you’ll find all your starred GIFs here. When you’re in a conversation and you find a GIF someone’s sent that’ interesting, something you might want to reuse yourself, tap and hold in the GIF and tap the “ Star” icon. Step 7: Once you’re done editing, tap the “ Send” button in the bottom-right corner.
The color picker icon lets you change the color of the doodle.Īt the bottom, you’ll be able to add text caption. Tap the “ Pen” icon to bring up the doodle tool. Tap the “ T” icon to add a text on the GIF. Tap the Emoji icon to put in emoji stickers (they can then be flung anywhere on the GIF and resized). In the top-right you’ll see icons similar to Snapchat. You can crop the GIF by moving the starting and end points. On the top, you’ll see the scrubber for editing the length of the GIF. Step 6: You’ll now get to the GIF editing screen. Once you find one, tap on it to select it. Tap on the “ Search” bar on top to search for a GIF. You’ll see trending GIFs on the first page. Step 5: This will bring up the GIF search too. Step 4: In the bottom-left, you’ll see a new “ GIF” button, next to the magnifying glass icon. Step 3: Select “ Photo and Video Library“. Step 2: Tap on the “ +” icon that’s on the left to the text input box. Step 1: Open the conversation you want to send the GIF to. WhatsApp has integrated GIPHY into the app.
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Read: Top 19 WhatsApp Tips and Tricks for iPhone How to Find GIFs and Share Them in WhatsApp Tap again to stop.īut where is this feature? How does it work? Read on to find out. Tap on the image and it will start playing. They’ll show up in the conversation with a “GIF” tag in the center. GIFs don’t autoplay in WhatsApp (thankfully).
You’ll also be able to share your Live Photos as GIFs (finally) and convert any video under 6 seconds and share a GIF as well. If you’re running version 2.16.16 and up, you’ll now be able to search for GIFs (from the GIPHY database), edit and annotate GIFs and send them right from WhatsApp. And you can’t really put a price on that. It’s late, sure, but now a billion+ people have a way to quickly search for and share a Beyonce GIF as a response. WhatsApp is finally joining the rest of us in the GIF party.