WhatsApp will introduce animated GIFs in its chats through Giphy

It seems that since WhatsApp they have finally decided to listen to the prayers of their users. Taking into account that many messaging applications have been using animated GIFs for some time, and that even Twitter has decided to include them, it seems that finally the most used messaging application of the world will have the Giphy service to be able to give more dynamism to messages.

As they say, sometimes 'a picture is worth a thousand words'Well, if that image above is animated, much more. The GIFs have become an essential tool in day-to-day communication. In fact, all you have to do is enter a fanpage of any digital medium and depending on we navigate through their status updates we will see how some of them is an animated image. And the same thing happens on our own Facebook walls.

If in recent weeks WhatsApp decided to increase the size of the emojis when they are placed alone in a message, the following will be the arrival of animated images. The application will integrate the Giphy tool so that we can search for these images through keywords and thus use them in our conversations. The news arises thanks to one of the latest entries in the application's Translation Center, in the iPhone section. There the text 'Search Giphy' has been added, with which this track makes it clear that they are developing the part in which they will add GIFs to our messages.

WhatsApp will allow animated GIFs

If the emojis you think you have fallen short to answer the thousands of messages you receive through WhatsApp,shortly you will be able to expand it using animated GIFs And it is that this type of animated images have become a success on social networks and in our daily lives, with which It's strange that right now you can't remember at least one that you found funny in the last few days.

This is how WhatsApp is also going to incorporate animated images into its application, something that others have done previously, as is the case from Telegram. This information has already been leaked from one of the latest betas of the most popular messaging application at the moment, but the big question was knowing how they had thought of incorporating it.

Now, and thanks to the WhatsApp translation center, it has been known that it will be the platform Giphy in charge of providing the application with animated images. A service that is used on other platforms such as Slack or Twitter, and that will now be integrated into the app so that we can search for the desired animated images and thus share them with our contacts. Everything indicates that the images can only be selected in WhatsApp, that is, we will not be able to create them,something that Giphy does allow in its version for the web browser.

In addition to animated images, in WhatsApp too they would be working on the option to make video calls easier for us A feature that the application still does not allow but surely their next versions will have it, just like the incorporation of GIFs.