If you choose to disable autoplay in your settings, you can tap or click a GIF (as indicated by “GIF” in a white circle on the image) to play it instead.īefore today, the only option for sharing GIFs on Facebook was a workaround provided by Giphy, but this was not considered official Facebook support. GIFs will auto-play on Facebook in line with your current video autoplay settings. You can’t currently upload GIFs directly, however, and see the same results.
The GIF will be animated inline after you post.
PHOTO PLAYER THAT ALSO PLAYS GIFS UPDATE
To try the new feature, Facebook users can paste a link to a GIF hosted on an external website like Giphy, Imgur, Tumblr, or elsewhere, into their status update box and then publish. That decision, however, has been reversed today. Though Facebook had built in support for GIFs for quite some time, the company has long felt that GIFs could lead to the site being cluttered with low-quality memes, as we previously reported. Neither did the introduction of support for GIFs on Twitter last summer - a change that some felt might force Facebook’s hand in the matter. The company introduced support for auto-playing videos in late 2013, but despite bringing a more lively, animated feel to the News Feed, the move did not lead Facebook to rolling out support for GIFs. Instead of allowing GIFs, Facebook’s focus to date has been on video.
The move represents a significant change in direction for Facebook, which has historically made a conscious decision to avoid supporting GIFs, claiming that doing so would make its News Feed “too chaotic.” Not everyone will see the added functionality immediately, we understand, as the update is still rolling out. Facebook this afternoon confirmed that it will now support animated GIFs in the Facebook News Feed.
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