Gboard Now Lets You Create and Share Your Own GIFs with a Tap

Google's well-known keyboard app, Gboard, has today quietly secured an update on iOS devices, bringing a minor (yet significant) modification in tow.

The search giant is making the process of GIF cosmos using its keyboard app extremely elementary by moving the record button into the word proffer bar at the top. This isn't a new feature that's been added to Gboard today but has been there since September last twelvemonth. It was previously hidden behind the emoji key and under the GIF department.

Notation : I tried this feature on my iPhone Ten, running Gboard (v 1.17.0.178984954) and it worked perfectly fine.

I believe at that place isn't a demand for me to go into specific details of how to use this instant GIF-making feature since it really is dead elementary.

When you're using Gboard as your default keyboard on any iOS device, you'll see a new 'camera' icon plastered at the extreme correct of the discussion suggestion bar. Tap that and you'll be taken to a GIF recording screen (equally seen on the right). In that location you will take a option of ii modes: Loop and Fast Forrard.

While the 'Loop' choice allows you lot to record a quick Instagram-similar Boomerang, the 'Fast Forward' option will encounter you capturing a minute-long video (that's a lot of antics) that is sped upwards to create a time-lapse sort-of-thing. One time you're washed recording, you need to striking the send button to copy the GIF, which y'all have to paste in the message box to actually ship information technology over.

If you're an individual who heavily relies on memes and GIFs to put forth their indicate, and so you'll dearest this new update. I cannot be too sure of the recipients. Here's me agreeing with this betoken:

As for Android users, Gboard may be your preferred choice of a keyboard but yous notwithstanding exercise not have the adequacy to brand and share GIFs from it just yet. Google has only made this bachelor for iOS users, presumably to attract them away from the default bland keyboard.

But, if you'd similar to share goofy GIFs of yourself in conversations on Android so you tin plow to Google's 'Motion Stills' app to make it happen. This app turns your live images into GIFs, only calculation one more step before y'all share it with your friends. It isn't every bit simple every bit tapping a button on Gboard'due south proffer bar simply it works mighty fine.

We can expect to see this feature rollout to Gboard Android users in the coming weeks. So, are you already plotting to spam your friends with GIFs all day? Let u.s.a. know your opinions on this change down below.