How to use animated GIFs in Instagram Stories
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Just yesterday we offered you news regarding Instagram Stories, one of the star functions of applications used by teenagers (and not so much): now we could accompany our Stories with GIF stickers, that is, stickers animated with which to decorate and give another life to our daily stories. Today this new update has arrived, so we are going to teach you how to discover if you already have it on your mobile and how to use it to be the envy of your contacts.
This is how you can paste GIFs in your Instagram Stories
First of all, if you haven't decided to use Instagram yet, you can download it at this link in the Android app store. The application is totally free and its installation file weighs about 30 MB, so it is up to you to download it using mobile data or WiFi. Once you've signed up and logged into your account, we're going to create your first story. At the top left of the page, we see a camera icon. We can either press it or slide the page with our finger to the right. With both options we will go to the Instagram Stories section.
You can make a short video or a photo. We opted to take a photograph, in this case. Now, we see three icons in the upper right. With the first of them, which is in the form of a sticker, we are going to see if we have the GIFs. Press and see a series of stickers: one of them will read 'GIF'.If it appears, we have the animated stickers available. Click on GIF Now, we can search for a special GIF or stay with the ones that the system offers us by default.
https://giphy.com/gifs/instagram-cats-stickers-l0HU39JclbkAIKplS
We choose the GIF by means of a touch and place it in the photograph, where we want. If we want to make it bigger, or rotate it on its own axis, we will do it as a grip gesture with the fingers Once we have our composition, we can save it or share it within our stories. You have the options at the bottom of the screen.
https://giphy.com/gifs/cats-stickers-l0HU4aYJRpPAVeQuc
If you want to record a video, hold down the button and then mark the sticker by holding it down on the subject. The GIF will automatically follow the object by locking onto it.
