Imessage gif not downloading

I think I figured out what the issue is. If your photo storage is close to capacity after the IOS 14 update it won’t save GIFs.

Don't know if this is the fix, but I had the same issue...unable to save gifs. I went into settings photos..and turned off the optimize photos setting, and switched to storage of originals on my device. I have plenty of local storage so I choose to keep originals on my phone. I was able to save gifs to photos again and attach them to forum posts etc as gifs...not the still shot.

Same here!! How’s that possible? Sounds like a prank Lol they should fix this over April 1st 2021

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Yep, been having this problem for a wile now and it’s pretty dang annoying!

I'm also having this issue. Brand new SE and latest update. Apple, please fix!!

It hasn‘t just been a problem with the last four updates its been a problem since at least 14.0 public beta 2 (don‘t know about public beta 1). It’s not even a bug just a missing feature of playing animated webp images in the fotos app.

In my opinion it should really just convert them into gifs when downloading them...

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I’m sure someone has brought this up but if you download the GIPHY app you can copy and paste gifs from there. Annoying solve but fixed it for me.

TO EVERYONE:

this has been a problem for the past FOUR updates. I’m assuming people having a problem missed the last few updates and was running a previous ios before this happened. That’s correct, FOUR updates later and still no fix for this very simple thing. I, along with over 200 people on another thread have complained about this and put in several requests to the customer service email and technician email about this problem. I have even contacted Apple live chat and contacted them over the phone and all they say is ‘we are very sorry about this, please contact the various emails’ and so we all did, with no prevail. As a lot of people are saying, for phones which are over $1000, 5x the price of other phones, thi really is poor, and a complete joke. Shows they only care about the absolute newest phones in their range, and not about all the other millions of loyal customers. Smh.

same problem! i have an entire album of saved gifs that i can't send. apple where's the fix????

Same problem here, whenever I try to download gifs they become still images.

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Spend almost $1,000 on an iPhone, can’t save gifs right and yet my 6 year old potato android can easily do it.

really Apple? Please fix this

Need a fix, same issue on Safari from an iPhone with 14.1 :(

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I also have updated to 14.2 and am still having this problem. Please fix!

Updated to 14.2 and still no fix for gifs 😕😔

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Same problem here on 9.7" iPad Pro MLQ32LL/A. Please advise

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