Sometimes a simple emoji or photo isn’t enough. If you’d rather send someone an animated GIF, Workflow by DeskConnect lets you search for and create animated GIFs right on your iPhone. Take live photos, import existing ones from your Camera Roll, or use your own videos. No matter what kind of GIF you want, you can find it or make it with Workflow!
How to quickly find and send animated GIFs in a text message
It isn’t always necessary to create new GIFs since there’s millions of them floating around on the internet. With Workflow, you can easily search Giphy in just a few taps.
Just install and run this action in your Workflow app and you’re good to go:
If you want to search for a specific term on Giphy regularly, you can even add the keyword to the action and results will populate instantly. If you put nothing in the search box for the action, you’ll get the latest trending GIFs on Giphy by default.
How to create animated GIFs with pictures from your iPhone
If you want to create your own GIFs out of pictures and videos you already have stored on your iPhone, Workflow makes that easy too.
For photos, you can choose from two popular actions — with the Photos to GIF action, you can adjust the number of photos you’d like to pull from your Camera Roll to automatically create a GIF. With the Make GIF action, you can take new photos using the front or rear camera on your iPhone and quickly turn them into a GIF.
How to make GIFs with videos from your iPhone
You can also turn videos on your iPhone into GIFs. It works pretty much the same way photos would. Workflow will automatically pull videos from your Camera Roll, let you choose which one you’d like to use, and compresses it into a GIF.
Video GIFs are best when you film a video with a short funny part. Just trim the clip down first and then use that portion to create your animated GIF!
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