Turn any Live Photo or video on your phone into a short GIF. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac You can make an animated GIF on your iPhone or Mac out of any Live ...

Locker is a contributor for TIME. Locker is a contributor for TIME. The Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, was first developed by computer scientist working at CompuServe back in 1987. And while it ...

David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, he's reviewed phones for TechRadar as well as covered tech, gaming, and culture for Engadget, Popular Mechanics ...

Sometimes, the best response to a group chat or email is a strong GIF—a small animation that can express your feelings much better than you can type them. While you can find plenty of GIFs for every ...

Google owns search intent. Facebook owns the social graph. But the “emotional graph” is still up for grabs -- or so goes the argument David McIntosh, cofounder and CEO of the mobile GIF keyboard and ...

The way you use GIFs means more than you might realize, according to new research from BYU. When you get a text from a friend, is your immediate reaction to reply with a GIF? Do you know which GIF to ...

The web's favorite file format just turned 30. Yep, it turns out the GIF is a millennial, too. At the same time, 30 makes the GIF ancient in web years, which feels a bit weird, given that the ...

Editor’s Note: This story originally published in March 2018. We’re republishing the piece following news that Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead creators of the GIF, died earlier this month after ...

GIFs are amazing. They're like the flipbooks of the internet -- great for conveying thoughts and emotions that words can't describe, as they showcase the antics of your adorable household pets or give ...

So you saw a fun GIF on X, formerly known as Twitter. That's cool, good for you, seems like fun. Now you want to save it for your own personal use. That's cool, too, but unfortunately a bit more ...

Since their invention more than 30 years ago (four years before the World Wide Web even), GIFs have come to be one of the most popular and beloved forms of expression on the internet. Indeed, the ...

As this is an argument about the underpinnings of the English language, let me be frank—the acronym derived from the word "Graphic Interchange Format" is pronounced with a hard G, "GIF," like ...