Giphy breaks free from Facebook with 2.0 iOS app update

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by Sindy Cator on October 29, 2015 at 7:53 pm

Giphy is un-hitching its wagon from Facebook Messenger with the release of its 2.0 iOS app. Inside you’ll get the searchability of the desktop version, as well as easy share options that allow you to post to Facebook, Twitter or, of course, Facebook Messenger. The functionality within the mobile application is essentially the same as you would find on Giphy’s Web version, which is honestly what most of us expected after it announced its latest round of funding ($17 million) as well as the acquisition of Nutmeg, the GIF messaging app. What we didn’t expect back in March was for Giphy to build its first app on the…