why won't gifs animate in messages?

yo !!!!! i've had this SAME exact issue, same exact phone. it used to never happen back in the day but i think one of the updates a while back messed up saving gifs. i can't save gifs anymore without it being a static image. the solution i found out to this is to just copy and paste the gif you want to use to the place you want to use it. for example: tumblr gifs always used to save for me and now they don't. it's been like this for just over a year now and i just figured out you have to just copy and paste it (i usually do so to twitter). if you want to keep the gif, i just recommend going on the computer and downloading it for future use. hope this helps. 😀

Same with me. I have an iPhone 6S and gifs won't animate in iMessage. 😟

If you are using Chrome, I just read it has something to do with the Chrome browser. Other people, as well as myself, we're having the same problem and they suggested trying to save a gif from Safari and send it to yourself and see if that works. I just tried it myself and surprisingly it works, so I guess it really is Chrome. People suggested using Chrome beta.

Hope this helps you as much as it helped me.

Chrome is about to being ended completely, as most other Google apps.

Can you elaborate on that?

as soon as you have a gif file in your Finder: you can play a gif by

ctl+click and choosing "quicklook"

or even easier select it and press the space bar.

This thread is regarding iOS.

I've experienced the same thing for several weeks. All the animated GIFs I had in my Photos album suddenly were frozen on the first frame. They would not play in iMessage. Also, when attempting to save new animated gifs, they were frozen in both iMessage and Safari. This started simultaneously on both my iPhone 6S and iPad Air 2.

Today I just saved a new animated GIF file from Safari on my iPad, and found it playing. Sent it to myself in iMessage and it was working fine. Checked iPhone too and it seems most of my GIFs are working again on both devices. No idea why this happened or how I resolved it.

Good luck.

I had been seeing this intermittently, but now today I updated to IOS 9.3.5 and it won't even save a gif. I've been wondering if it has something to do with optimized images when using iCloud but haven't been able to fix it.