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This wikiHow teaches you how to send a GIF file to a contact in a chat conversation, using an iPhone or iPad.
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Open the Telegram app on your iPhone or iPad. The Telegram icon looks like a white paper plane in a blue circle. You can find it on your home screen, or in a folder on your home screen. -
Tap the Chats tab. This button looks like two speech balloon icons at the bottom of your screen. It will open a list of all your personal and group chats.Advertisement -
Tap a chat on your chats list. This will open the conversation in full-screen. -
Tap the sticker icon next to the message field. This button looks like a circle icon between the message field and the microphone in the lower-right corner. It will open your sticker library at the bottom of your screen. -
Tap the GIF button. This button is located in the upper-left corner of your sticker library at the bottom of your screen. It will open Telegram's GIF library.- If you see a GIF you like here, just tap it to send it.
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Tap the message field. Opening the GIF library will add @gif in the beginning of your message field. You can search GIFs by entering a keyword here. Tapping will bring up your keyboard. -
Enter a search keyword in the message field. Anything you enter following @gif here will automatically search the GIF library, and bring up related GIF files on the row above the message field.- Alternatively, you can manually type @gif in the message field without opening the GIF library.
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Tap a GIF file. This will send the selected GIF to your contact in the chat above.
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