WhatsApp for iPhone Finally Supports GIFs, Including Live Photos

This happened to me as well but only on a small resolution gif, maybe it has something to do with the resolution? o_O

I think I figured it out and I don't think anyone will like it.

I read the article again more closely and the wording in the first paragraph makes it sound like you can only use your own created gifs (which is Live Photos) or the Giphy add on. I have a ton of gifs in my library and the moment I touch one to add to a chat, it gives me that error. Even if I force touch and swipe up, I only get a select photo/cancel option. When I do the same swipe up on a live photo, it gives me a send as a gif command and then can modify it. So they're basically allowing us to send our own Live Photos but none of the gifs stored in our library that we've gotten from the net.

From what I can see, this is a half a$$ implementation of gif support, which is silly to say the least.

So, a $19.3bn company has scraped together enough resources to add functionality that Telegram has had for over two years.

Bravo!

Everytime this app is updated I hope Apple Watch support will be added. Sadly I doubt it will ever happen.

It works flawlessly for me on an iPhone 6 - this is copying and pasting saved gifs from my library in the GIFwrapped app.

Surprising to hear Whatsapp isn't supported on Apple Watch!

what about iOS being able to download gifs from safari?

It's weird that after releasing messages for iOS 10 with gif support, camera roll still doesn't ....

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Google got that one horribly wrong! :o