How To Upload Gif To Facebook On Iphone

Facebook is now allowing users to upload GIFs – just like they would an epitome or video on the platform – without having to rely on an external GIF-hosting service.

Facebook has always been hesitant to bring GIFs to its platform, fearing that they would lead to a bad user experience for people. So, upwards until at present, the ability to mail GIFs on Facebook has been limited, and has taken many shapes over the years. Starting time, users were given the ability to post a GIF in blithe form, past posting a link from a service like GIPHY. So, Facebook extended that feature to Pages as well. Then came the ability to advertise using GIFs, and a dedicated GIF button in comments. Now, users can postal service GIFs just like they would practice with whatsoever paradigm or video.

How to mail a GIF on Facebook

The new characteristic was introduced silently, so only a few users take realised that information technology is really possible. Also, information technology seems to be available merely on desktop for now, not mobile. The way it works is unproblematic. If you accept a cool GIF that hasn't been uploaded to GIPHY, you lot tin can at present upload it equally an prototype/video. Facebook automatically recognises the file format and deals with it only like it would a video – you fifty-fifty go the notification that your video is processing, and that you will exist notified when information technology's finished.

Your GIF will then appear in its animated course with "GIF" written across it, allowing users to click to pause or play. Only like videos, it will autoplay and loop within your News Feed. Correct-clicking brings upward an selection to "pause," "mute," or "prove video URL."

Evidently GIFs don't have sound anyhow, so existence able to mute this postal service is a leftover from how Facebook deals with video (just similar in its ads). In fact, Facebook clearly seems to bargain with GIFs equally videos, and not links as it used to, or images (despite being uploaded every bit an epitome file).

This should besides increment the organic reach of GIFs on the News Feed as Facebook gives videos preferential treatment.

The next question is "what size GIF can I upload?" The reply to that is unclear at the moment. I was able to post a GIF that was over 15MB normally – Twitter's limit is 15MB. Finally, the former GIF-posting method still works exactly as it did before – and the resulting postal service is treated equally a link post.