If your iPhone doesn’t have a Home button, swipe up from the very bottom of your screen and the App Switcher should appear. To close out of an app, open the App Switcher by double-pressing the Home button. All of these apps are prone to the occasional software crash, and closing out of them will give the apps a chance to start fresh. Try closing out of the app or apps you’re trying to use Gboard in, whether it’x Messages, Notes, Mail, or any social media apps. When Gboard is not working on your iPhone, the problem could be stemming from an app using Gboard, not Gboard itself. Wait about half a minute, then press and hold the power button again to turn your iPhone back on. Swipe the red power icon from left to right to turn your iPhone off. Press and hold the power button until Slide To Power Off appears on the display of your iPhone next to a red power icon. The first thing I recommend trying is to restart your iPhone, which can sometimes fix a minor software glitch. If Gboard still isn’t working on your iPhone, there’s probably a software problem that’s preventing Gboard from functioning properly. I’ve Done Everything So Far, But Gboard Is Not Working! Now What? Tap the text field where you wish to type, then tap the globe icon in the lower left-hand corner of your iPhone’s display. First, open any app that uses the iPhone keyboard (I’ll use the Messages app to demonstrate). If you didn’t make it the default keyboard on your iPhone, you can still use Gboard in any app that uses the keyboard. This change won’t take effect until you close out of your apps, so don’t be surprised if the English iOS keyboard is still the default at first! Drag Gboard to the top of your list of keyboards, and tap Done when you’re finished. More recently, the company was spotted testing a clone of Snapchat’s Stories feature on WhatsApp, called “Status.” This offered a similar editing interface, as it allowed users to snap photos or videos then using an in-app editor to add other content, including their own scribbles, text and emoji.To make Gboard your default keyboard, press down on the three horizontal lines on the right side of the screen next to Gboard. The change comes at a time when Facebook has been increasingly focused on competing more directly with rival Snapchat through a number of features across its platforms, including Facebook itself, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. The company wouldn’t comment on when the same feature set is arriving on Android. There are no other GIF providers involved, however.
WhatsApp also confirmed to us that both Giphy and Tenor are being used, but the selection is not based on region. “We’ve been working with WhatsApp since they started exploring integrating GIFs,” notes Giphy’s Director of Biz Dev, David Rosenberg, adding that it’s fairly standard for apps like this to leverage multiple providers. During the testing period, WhatsApp switched the default GIF search engine from Giphy to Tenor at one point. The features were also available during beta tests. In addition, you can edit your GIFs after selecting them, by trimming the clip, rotating it, by adding emoji or colorful text, ahead of hitting “Send.”Īll of these changes have not yet rolled out to the Android version of the app, which could be why WhatsApp hasn’t yet made an official announcement about the update. You can search through the available GIFs to find those you want to share, and mark select items as Favorites to be used again in the future. (We’ve asked the company to clarify how it’s choosing which engine to display as the default to which users, but it didn’t yet respond.) While you can send GIFs (and Live Photos or videos) from your phone, WhatsApp also includes an integrated GIF search engine, powered by Tenor or Giphy. From there, you’ll choose the option “Select as GIF” when selecting the Live Photo from your Photo and Video Library. Meanwhile, you can send a Live Photo as a GIF by using the 3D Touch feature from the “Attach” interface. According to the app update text in iTunes, the new feature will allow users to send and receive GIFs, including Live Photos and shorter videos, both of which can be now converted to animated GIFs.įor videos, the clip has to be six seconds or shorter, in order to be sent as a GIF. Amid increased competition from Apple’s iMessage, Snapchat, and Google’s new entry Allo, Facebook-owned WhatsApp has now rolled out support for sharing GIFs in its messaging application on iOS.