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Instagram adds GIF support to its direct message platform

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Enrique 20 September 2018

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There are fully fledged communication apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Facebook Messenger that have a wide variety of functions and features like games, location sharing, stickers, and even sending payments. Then there’s the “direct message” category, which is more of a supplementary messaging platform to compliment social networks like Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr.

Direct message isn’t really something you’d want to use exclusively due to a lack of features, but Instagram is making it somewhat bearable by introducing GIF support on Instagram DMs.

The Instagram app is currently being updated with GIPHY support to find and send GIFs and the feature is rolling out over the next few days. I currently don’t see the feature enabled on the Galaxy S9+ that I’m using. It looks like the update will be slowly rolled out on iOS and Android on the server-side so having the latest version of the app may not be enough.

Do you have the ability to DM GIFs already? Let us know what country you’re in and what device you’re using in the comments.

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  • Anonymous
  • 39h
  • 21 Sep 2018

"Sophisticated" and "GIF" in the same sentence makes no sense. There is nothing sophisticated about GIF, or about using it today in 2018, in particular not like the sheep on Imgur and Reddit who convert high-resolution video to low-resolution, 256 co...

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  • SedemQ
  • fmg
  • 21 Sep 2018

Just got the OTA update for GIF support Accra, Ghana

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  • Realistic1
  • 3qF
  • 21 Sep 2018

Nice, now I have a choice if I want to send GIF-s. But I doubt I'll ever send one anyways. Not to get me wrong, I know there are people out there who send GIF-s on any app where it's possible.

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