For example, if you want to send a special message GIF, you may type “Get well soon,” or “Congrats,” or similar.
GIFs add a dose of fun and dynamics into conversations. For example, GIHPY is the world’s leading database of GIFs, and you can send one from there as well. Fortunately, you can search outside the iOS box and choose just about any GIF on the internet. Maybe the iOS default gallery doesn’t have a GIF that transfers the emotion you want to convey.
If so, let’s explore how to share a GIF to iMessage from another app. However, maybe you didn’t find a GIF you like and decide to search the web instead. Just type a message under the GIF before hitting Send, and the message will get delivered together with the GIF.Īs you can see, sending a GIF using iOS’ default keyboard only requires a few simple steps. The iMessage app also lets you add comments to a GIF. Choose the GIF you like by tapping on it.For example, if you want to send a congratulations GIF, you may type “Happy Birthday,” or “Congratulations,” or similar keywords depending on the occasion. Enter the keywords for your GIF into the search box.Select the red icon featuring a magnifying glass. A list of icons will appear at the bottom of the screen.Select the chat where you want to send a GIF.That’ll be it for now, I’ll play with those settings some more and let you guys know if I find anything. There is a massive object, interally referrenced as c that contains this an other settings, such as battery warning thresholds (defaults to 15 and 5, tested changing in to 99 and sure enough I got the low battery warning), and some apparently unused google maps settings (perhaps unused in web, used in iPhone) named GOOGLE_MAPS_DO_NOT_AUTH. I’m curious for the reasoning behind having Tenor as the default but being overridden by Giphy at some point, so I dug a little more but I can only pinpoint the source of the data being a websocket message from their servers down: MESSAGE_INFO:true SET_BLOCK:true SPAM:true announceGroups:1001 bucket:"" edit:1 fbCrashlog:true gifSearch:"giphy" #There we go groupDescLength:512 groupsV3:1 imageMa圎dge:1600 imageMaxKBytes:1024 maxFileSize:100 maxParticipants:257 maxSubject:25 media:64 restrictGroups:1 videoMa圎dge:960 webPresence:false
What conclusion could I have? The only conclusion is that I have too much free time right now. function n() Ĭomparison of the results between giphy and tenor, yeah, my internet sucks Conclusion
While casually looking at the source code for WhatsApp’s web I noticed that there was a suspicious looking switch statement that considered the possibility of a user not using the Giphy search engine. You might have heard of the Tenor gif keyboard that allows you to search a vast collection of GIFs and insert them easily into the application you are using to chat, I certainly had never heard of them. Let’s find out! What is this Tenor you mention? I couldn’t find it, and couldn’t find anything a bit NSFW or violent, and I get it, kids use this app (they shouldn’t, but they do) and we have to protect our kids but… Can I do something to my own WhatsApp so that, without leaving the tab I can improve my GIF search experience?
Some months ago I wanted to reply to a friend in a group chat with a GIF of someone simulating shooting himself, I wanted a particular one from How I met your Mother where Barney Stinson. After the overwhelming number of views I received on the previous story I decided I would pursue the topic of exploring WhatsApp’s source-code and see if I could find something else of interest, I mean who doesn’t enjoy going through 109000 lines of code with a cup of coffee?.Īs with my previous stories about WhatsApp, this is focused on WhatsApp web, I will not cover in detail how to do this, mainly exploring and sharing the results