Last Updated: August 18th, 2017
GIFs (Graphic Interchange Format) are immensely popular across Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. You must have seen your Twitter Feeds filled with funny GIFs and wanted to save some of those GIFs on your smartphone or desktop.To your disappointment when you right-click on the GIF you don’t find any option to save the image.
Why You Cannot Download GIFs From Twitter
You cannot download a GIF directly from Twitter as they are not GIFs technically, Twitter converts all the GIFs files into short videos to make it load faster.
Save GIFs From Twitter On iPhone (iOS 10 and later)
If you really want to save your favorite GIF from Twitter on iPhone you need to download a third-party app. Let us go through the steps.
First, go ahead and install a third-party app GIFwrapped by the developer Daniel Farrelly from the App Store.
Download Twitter Videos on iPhone
Launch the Twitter app on your iPhone and find the GIF which you want to save.
Tap on the More option.
Now, tap on Share Tweet Via.
Tap on Copy Link to Tweet to copy the link.
Launch the GIFwrapped app on your iPhone and tap on Search option at the bottom and then Search option at the top and then on Use the Clipboard to paste the link which you have copied above.
You will have to wait for your GIF to load.
Tap to open the GIF and then tap on the Share button to find the sharing options.
Tap on Share Image option.
Now, tap on Save Image.
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