Whether youre sending a Happy Birthday! or freaking out over the latest episode of your favorite TV show, you can easily send GIFs to your friends in your Instagram messages.
To send GIFS and animated stickers through Instagrams direct message feature, you have to use one of the social platforms built-in keyboards. After starting any new conversation or opening an old private message thread, you can access the GIF and sticker keyboards by tapping the smiley face icon in the message bar.
Once you select and tap the GIF you want, Instagram will automatically send the image to your friend. At present, sending GIFs through direct message is not yet possible while on Instagrams desktop site, and can only be done through the iOS or Android apps.
Heres how to send your friend GIFS in Instagram messages on your mobile device.
1. Open the Instagram app and enter your Message window by tapping the paper airplane icon in the upper right-hand corner of your newsfeed or by swiping left.
The messages icon remains visible regardless of how far down your feed youve scrolled.Abbey White/Business Insider
2. Choose the Instagram friend you want to send a message to either by tapping an existing conversation thread or by selecting the pencil and paper icon in the upper right to pick a friend.
Tapping the New Message icon opens up a list of friends you can message.Abbey White/Business Insider
3. Tap the smiley face icon in your Message bar.
This bar looks similar to Instagrams search bar and is located at the very bottom of the screen.Marissa Perino/Business Insider
4. A new menu will pop-up. Tap the rightmost GIF icon at the bottom of it.
5. You can select a GIF from the popular list or tap the search bar to search GIPHY.
To columns of the most popular gifs will appear beneath the GIPHY search bar.Marissa Perino/Business Insider
6. As you type, GIPHY will automatically populate results. Scroll by swiping up to view all the results.
The results will change as you add more text in the search bar.Marissa Perino/Business Insider
7. Tap a GIF to send it instantly in the message thread.
As soon as you tap, it will automatically send and appear in your message history.Marissa Perino/Business Insider
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