Select your Google Photos animation GIF as outlined above and then tap the share icon in the lower left.

On Android, things are even easier and you can share GIFs directly from Google Photos to Instagram, as the app automatically converts the GIF into a video, no extra app required. Step 3: Tap 'Save and share on Instagram.' For Android Step 2: Select your GIF and adjust the playback speed. Step 1: Open GifLab and select 'GIF to Instagram.'

Then, open up GifLab and do the following: ' located in the upper right corner and then tap 'Download' to save the GIF.Animations that Google Photos created but you didn't save within 30 days of their creation will not appear and are lost forever, so save them when they're created.) To find your animations, type 'animations' into the Photos search bar in the iOS or Android app. On iOS, you'll need to use another app like GifLab (free) to convert the GIF into a video. Here's how to do that quickly and easily: For iOS There's just one little thing: While you can download and share the animated GIFs online to Twitter, Giphy or wherever using a computer, sharing GIFs natively to Instagram is still impossible without first converting the file into a video. I'm constantly amazed by how great the automatically generated animations are, and it sure beats using a separate app like Burstio to convert your burst photos into a video or a GIF. (You can also create your own animations by manually selecting between 2-50 photos, but the end result is the same - you still get a GIF file.) In the Google Photos app on iOS and Android, the Assistant is a card-based panel that does three things:Īutomatically creates 'movies' based on related video clips.Ĭreates 'animations' using batches of bursted photos. How to get all of your photos into Google Photos

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