17.1.1 update. Message search for gifs and #images no longer work?

So tap + next to the message bar and then tap More. Go to Images. That’s the GIF screen. Way to go Apple. Taking a 1 step function and making it 4. Someone is trying to justify their existence at Apple.

Found it!!! Click the + symbol then scroll down and click more.

Have you actually downloaded the Giphy App. It used to be part of the suite of gifs without downloading the app, but nowadays you have to download GIFs & Giphy & any other gifs apps you like to use. So, when clicking on “More,” the particular gif app should show up. But I would give it a bit of time to show up; 15 minutes max should work, though it might be available within 5 minutes. Try it & let us know how long it took to show up in the “More” List.

Thank you!!! I tried that and it has definitely been moved to under stickers now. Completely ridiculous to move it there. It’s obviously not a sticker pack! Thank you for posting this, I would never have thought to look under stickers!

When you click on the + button, a whole list of options will show up. I have a feeling you’re not scrolling down far enough to see ‘More.’ Try this & see if it works for you. I found both my Gyphy & GIFS Apps listed under ‘More.’ It’s not the best fix ever, but it does at least give us the option this way to access other Apps.

Okay I figured it out!!! Go to your keyboard, as if you were sending a text message

Next you’ll click on “stickers”

scroll all the way to the right, and you should see GIF at some point in that bar

youll then see the word “edit” to be able to rearrange them, and then drag gif to the left. And now it should be one of the first 3!!!

Per Apple: “The #images app is available in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, India, Singapore, Philippines, and Japan.”

i’m traveling in Colombia and I’m wondering if this app gets removed when you leave one of the countries listed above.

I find I have to access my other gif apps (Gypsy is a favorite, but I have specialty gifs, too, like for cats & dogs, too. I open the App & copy/paste or import it into a document like in text, although the text & gif have to be sent separately as text does with gifs already, so my friends don’t notice the difference. But I haven’t been able to import them into FB or X (Twitter) & that’s a real drag!

But it’s something you might try doing. If anyone has success uploading into FB or X, I’d really appreciate knowing how you did it (thank you).

That may have been IT for me! I was in Argentina and didn’t see #images as an option but at home (US) I do!

FYI you can hold down on the gif Icon in the menu and drag it up to the top :)

You have to download the GIF APP and turn on permission. SMH HATE IT THAT WAY BUT IT WORKS

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BTW, did you know that Google had a huge Class Action suit filed against them for only allowing Android users to use Google Store Apps, which didn’t allow for downloading other browsers? The Android Users won that case to the tune of something like $8M.

it seems to me that Apple is doing the same thing, more or less, with pushing this ‘Tenor’ App, & ignoring the other downloaded GIF Apps. But I guess their “fix” was the drop down menu, click’More’ & your other download GIF Apps will be listed. I don’t like the tactic they’re using here, which is very similar to the Android/Google App Store debacle. They’re basically dictating which product we can use for a certain function.

IOS 17 1.1 has taken everything that is easy about text and made it overly complicated. Other apps like the phone app are cluttered and clumsy! My GIFS have disappeared and I have tried everything to get them back. Anyone? Help!!!