Although WhatsApp doesn’t have a way to search for Gifs within the app, you can already send animated images. In this tip, let’s see how this process works (with a little help from the Giphy app).
Send Gifs with Whatsapp
The Gif feature of WhatsApp has long for long been a top wish of the users of the messaging service. Time after time the function seemed to be rolled out, but today it is still really far. If you’re sending a Gif file, it will appear in the chat window with a ‘Gif’ button on it. Tap it and the picture begins to animate.
Sooner or later, WhatsApp (as competitor Telegram) undoubtedly will add a way to search for Gifs from within the app. At the time of writing, that is not the case. This means that you’ll have to find a Gif with another app. Not very efficient, of course, but for now the only way you can send a WhatsApp Gif.
Fortunately, there are plenty of apps that you can use to search for Gifs. In this tip, we choose Giphy for the task, perhaps the best-known and largest online database of Gif files. Giphy has its own iOS app, which can find a Gif and can share them in many ways. From this app, you can send a Gif to a WhatsApp contact.
How to search and send a Whatsapp Gif
Open the Giphy app and enter a search term
Choose a Gif which you want to send and tap on it
Under the animated picture, there is a bar with several logos, tap the far right on the three dots.
Tap the square with an arrow and choose the WhatsApp icon
Once you tap the icon WhatsApp, the messaging app opens with a preview of the Gif that you are sending. You can just as with photos and emoji add written text to send your Gif.
Then tap the blue arrow to send your creation. WhatsApp Gif feature works on iOS, Android and the Web-based messaging.
