Sometimes a GIF just puts it better than any text comment possibly could. No matter your reason for using one, animated GIFs are a great way to add something fun to your Facebook status, or break up ...

If you've ever taken a Live Photo on your iPhone, you've probably realized that it's a bit like recording a quick GIF with your camera. However, Live Photos are a bit different — they aren't meant to ...

So you saw a fun GIF on X, formerly known as Twitter. That's cool, good for you, seems like fun. Now you want to save it for your own personal use. That's cool, too, but unfortunately a bit more ...

The noble GIF animated image format is over 30 years old, and despite reports that the youth think they’ve outlived their coolness, they remain popular with a certain vintage of internet user (like ...

Turn any Live Photo or video on your phone into a short GIF. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac You can make an animated GIF on your iPhone or Mac out of any Live ...

People love GIFs. A lot. Really a lot. So much. They’ve been around since 1987, leaving plenty of time for a prolonged and heated pronunciation debate that wouldn’t stop until the creator of the .gif ...

"Maybe this chick would be even cuter if I could make it walk...?"Looking at this ugly-cute chick illustration I made with ...

The GIF has had an impressively long run amidst the usual short-term churn of the tech industry. One of the earliest ways of displaying animations on the web—long before there was enough bandwidth to ...

Sending a GIF in iMessage isn’t just about tossing a moving picture into a chat. It’s a quick way to add tone, personality, or a little chaos when plain text doesn’t cut it. Apple hides the GIF ...

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer covering Android devices, laptops, portable projectors, VR headsets, software, and AI recorders for Android Police and Talk Android. She has five years' experience ...

Even with all the video streaming options available to us today, there’s nothing that can match the weird, mesmerizing quality of a good animated GIF. That’s why no matter where you go on the Internet ...

Fans of social media are well acquainted with animated gifs. They bombard Tumblr users’ dashboards and often function as visual responses or reactions in Twitter conversations, comment threads, and ...