Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Can I embed an animated gif in Apple mail? If I can, I can't seem to figure it out.
Thanks.
Chip
Drag them from the Desktop into the body of the email. It won't automate while you're composing but will once it's delivered. Try sending one to yourself.
Drag them from the Desktop into the body of the email. It won't automate while you're composing but will once it's delivered. Try sending one to yourself.
That was too simple and not something that I thought of.
I sent one to my Apple mail and a gmail account and it did what it was supposed to. I also sent one to my Yahoo mail and it didn't. Any ideas what's going on with Yahoo?
FWIW, I did the same thing but, the GIF didn't animate when I sent it to my Gmail account from an AOL mail account and opened it in webmail.
On the other hand, I emailed myself from Gmail webmail and I could see the gif animate while I was composing the email and when I received it.
I think there is no guarantee a GIF will animate. It seems to depend on unknown factors unclear to me.
Does the gif animate if you drag it out of the email that didn't animate and into a browser window? If it still doesn't then the email server(s) it's going thru is killing the animation.
Old Toad wrote:
Does the gif animate if you drag it out of the email that didn't animate and into a browser window? If it still doesn't then the email server(s) it's going thru is killing the animation.
I tend to agree. I think back in the late '90s some email providers started doing just that because of the use of GIFs by spammers. Perhaps some still do.
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