WhatsApp has had stickers for many years and later animated stickers were added to them. WhatsApp also allows us to send animated GIFs from GIPHY (or Tenor). Now the circle is closed: you can Send animated stickers directly from GIPHYThis means that many more stickers will be available on the platform overnight.

While Meta has long integrated GIPHY’s animated GIFs into its other apps like Messenger or Instagram, on WhatsApp you could only send them as GIFs, not as stickers. Now, Integrates results from sticker search engine GIPHYSo you’ll find even more suggestions than before.

Thousands of animated stickers are coming to WhatsApp

WhatsApp has recently adopted the pleasant habit of updating. change list for each new versionA few days ago we found the following list:

The duration of status videos and audio has been increased to 60 seconds.

You can set the default HD quality by going to Settings > Storage & data > Media upload quality.

Sticker searches now include results from GIPHY.

While we have already considered the first two elements, this is not the case with the third. GIPHY was already integrated into WhatsApp, but only when searching for animated GIFs, not stickers. The sticker search engine has so far Focused on the sticker packs we created and other packs are available. Not animated GIFs with transparent backgrounds like GIPHY’s huge collection, but good old-fashioned stickers.

This way, you will see that there is There are many more animated stickers available on WhatsApp and pretty much anything else you can think of. You can easily check them out from any chat by opening the sticker picker.

The next step is to tap on the magnifying glass button to open the sticker search and search for what you wantFirst, they will install the local stickers you have downloaded to your mobile phone, then other suggestions for WhatsApp stickers will come. More stickers.

The biggest difference is that little by little you will get more results. Animated stickers straight from GIPHYYou can confirm if this is the case with a long tap (GIPHY will appear as the author), but they’re easy to spot because they load slowly.

You are free to use these animated GIPHY stickers in your conversations like any other. Save it to your favorites so you always have it at handThis is one of the main advantages over searching and sending animated GIFs the old-fashioned way, as in this case they are sent as images and do not behave the same way (they do not have a transparent background, for starters).

WhatsApp has included this change in its notes version 2.24.16.7 betaTherefore, it should be available to those who have a later, beta or stable version.

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