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  • Scratch all of that. As pointed out past commenters, Giphy did let you download GIFs by long pressing on the paradigm. But it looks like so many users didn't intuitively find the selection that a dedicated Download button had to be added.

Giphy released its official Android app in April of final year, but information technology had ane caveat. Yous couldn't easily save the GIFs to your device (there were workarounds, but not ones regular users would know), you could only share them to other apps. This meant yous had to know where exactly you wanted to use that GIF in order to benefit most from the app and you lot couldn't just browse, grab any GIFs you like, and keep them on the off-chance you'll need them later. It besides meant that GIPHY had a lot of trouble sharing its GIFs properly to many apps like Hangouts, Messenger, WhatsApp, Facebook, and so on...

The obvious solution, which the app is implementing 9 months later, is to allow users download GIFs. Simple. With the files saved to your phone, you can then insert them in any app that supports GIFs without relying on Giphy'south fickle sharing mechanism, and yous tin employ them now or later and re-use them as much equally you lot want.

UPDATE: 2017/01/25 4:54am PST By

Scratch all of that. As pointed out past commenters, Giphy did let y'all download GIFs past long pressing on the image. But information technology looks like so many users didn't intuitively find the option that a dedicated Download button had to exist added.

To see the Download push, you'll have to expand the sharing options (tap the 3-dot icon afterwards Facebook). Afterwards tapping to download, Giphy will make sure you lot want to save the GIF to your device and and then show a fiddling "GIF saved" animation. GIFs are saved netherPictures > Giphy on your local storage so that's where you should look for them.

This update likewise brings performance improvements and lesser data consumption. Hither's the changelog followed by the link to grab Giphy on the Play Store.

WHAT'South NEW

Saving GIFs is now as easy equally clicking a button

The app is now much faster and consumes lot less data

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