WhatsApp for Android now lets you search and send Giphy GIFs

Jan11

by Sindy Cator on January 11, 2017 at 4:47 am

WhatsApp took its own sweet time adding support for GIFs to its messaging app on Android, and even with that, it required users to bring their own animations to the party. Thankfully, that’s about to change. A beta version – v2.17.6 to be precise – includes a new feature that lets you search and send GIFs from Giphy’s massive library (or Tenor for some users, as I discovered while testing it on my phone in India). You can invoke it by tapping the emoji button next to the text input field and then toggle between emoji and GIFs from the new…