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At Instagram, it was not possible to reply to stories with GIFs. All the users had to do was to reply with plain texts and with similar things like this. But with a minor update coming from the giant video and photos sharing platform, now it’s possible for the users to reply to his or her friend’s story with the help of their favorite GIPHY GIFs. In order to apply a GIF, all the user would need is to carry out a search with the help of keyword and then get the reply text box claimed the social media expert called Matt Navarra.
His video seemed to go viral on social media explaining the use of this feature and the way it is to be used by the users active on Instagram. He has explained at length, which can be found out with the user name called hebkh. Well, with this feature added by Instagram, more and more people are now able to engage their friends with their stories in a way that has become loathe and daunting or overbearing when they see the inbox filled up with hilarious and many original gifs.
Talking about the same, the social media experts feel that it would prove out to be a popular choice that would further going to add a different way for responding to stories frames. The brand and marketing considerations could then include the GIF reply competitions or prompt to come out with the GIF reactions that are based over the stories frames that come out to share the best along with tagging the responders. For trying out this feature on Instagram, the users are now supposed to have the latest version of the app that is called 127.0 on iOS if they are using the Apple device of the app.
With this Instagram has become one of the many social services, which helps the users to add different graphics to the posts. However, earlier it used to half all the GIF related stops. Let’s talk about the posts of the friend that comes in animated stickers in stories and the users wanted to reply with GIF, which was not possible. But with this feature, Instagram has announced that a number of users are now seen replying to their friends stories with the help of GIFs that are pulled from GIPHY. So, as said above, all the users would not need is the updated version of Instagram app from the App Store or Play Store to get things going.