{"id":344525,"date":"2017-06-15T21:01:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T13:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/06\/15\/facebook-native-gif-support\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T21:01:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T13:01:56","slug":"facebook-introduces-native-gif-support-in-comments-on-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/facebook-introduces-native-gif-support-in-comments-on-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Introduces Native GIF Support in Comments on iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is today <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2017\/06\/celebrating-30-years-of-the-gif\/\">rolling out a long-awaited feature<\/a> within its iOS app, which will allow users to post GIFs directly into comments using a native GIF button. To share a GIF, users will find the button sitting next to the emoji button in the text field of the Facebook comment window, and from there they can search for a GIF by typing, horizontally scroll through the results, and tap to share.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/06\/facebook-gif-comments.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1097\" height=\"1042\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-571234\"\/><br \/>The company said that the update is in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the GIF format, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GIF\">created by Steve Wilhite on June 15, 1987<\/a>. The celebration will also include exclusive GIFs in collaboration with popular service GIPHY, and a user survey that will appear on Facebook&#8217;s feed that intends to put to rest the GIF pronunciation debate once and for all. In 2013, Wilhite said the word is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/gif-inventor-steve-wilhite-says-it-should-be-pronounced-jif-8626882.html\">pronounced with a soft g<\/a>, or &#8220;JIF,&#8221; but many users continue to use the hard g alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said that GIFs in comments will debut today &#8220;for all people on Facebook globally,&#8221; so it should begin appearing across mobile devices and on the web soon. <a href=\"http:\/\/appshopper.com\/social-networking\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a> is available to download on the iOS App Store for free [<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/facebook\/id284882215?mt=8\">Direct Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is today rolling out a long-awaited feature within its iOS app, which will allow users to post GIFs directly into comments using a native GIF button. To share a GIF, users will find the button sitting next to the emoji button in the text field of the Facebook comment window, and from there they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":344526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-344525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}