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How to Set an Animated GIF Facebook Profile Picture on Android and iPhone

If you’re looking to add an animated profile picture as your Facebook profile picture, you’ve come to the right place! Here in this tutorial you will learn how to use animated GIFs or videos for this purpose. The feature was released a while ago. It is available on both the iOS and Android Facebook app as well. So, let’s go ahead with the procedure for set animated GIF Facebook profile picture.

While browsing Facebook, have you ever come across profile pictures (similar to the one below), which are animated, like GIFs or videos?

Well, don’t be jealous as you can also set videos as your Facebook profile picture. This is only possible from the Android and iPhone mobile application. Currently, you Can’t set videos as Facebook website profile picture. But don’t worry, the profile video can be viewed on Facebook Web.

How to Add an Animated GIF Facebook Profile Picture

on iPhone

To set Facebook animated gif profile picture on iPhone or iPad, follow the steps below.

  1. Open the Facebook app and of course you need to log in to your Facebook account.
  2. Tap on three horizontal lines in the lower right corner.
  3. Touch your name to go to your Profile screen.

  1. Under your profile, tap the little camera icon in your profile picture.
  2. now play Select profile picture or video.
Select profile picture or videoSelect profile picture or video

  1. Select the desired video you recorded earlier from your Camera Roll.
  2. Then touch To edit.
Edit profile videoEdit profile video

  1. Now, you can use only a short video with a maximum length of 7 seconds. So your video will get cut automatically if it lasts more than 7 seconds. You can only select a specific part of the video that you want to upload as your profile video.
  2. you can too trim the video, mute your soundyschoose the desired coverusing their respective sections.
Trim and crop profile videoTrim and crop profile video

Mute and cover profile videoMute and cover profile video

  1. Once you are done with all the settings, tap Done in the upper right corner.
  2. then play To use to finish setting up your profile video.
use profile videouse profile video

With this, you have achieved uploaded an animated gif Facebook profile picture on iPhone or iPad!

On Android (Video)

The steps are almost similar to iOS.

  1. In the Facebook app, tap on the three horizontal lines in the top right corner.
  2. Select your name to view your profile.
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  1. On your profile, tap your profile.
  2. select any Take a new profile video o Select profile video.
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After this you can refer to the steps given above for iPhone. They remain the same for Android with minor differences.

Or you can watch this video. It also shows how to create a custom GIF with special effects and set it as your animated Facebook profile picture:

frequent questions

Can you turn a GIF into your Facebook profile picture?

You can make a GIF your profile picture on Facebook. Facebook now allows you to set a seven-second animated clip as your profile picture. You can use a short looping video, similar to a Vine, or an animated GIF as your profile picture.



Does Facebook still make profile videos?

Facebook still does profile videos in the sense that it is possible to use a video as your profile picture. The feature is only available on the iPhone or Android mobile app. Keep in mind that the videos on that profile are public and can be seen by everyone.



What is the size of the Facebook profile video?

The size of the Facebook profile video is 180 x 180 pixels and the duration is 7 seconds. Please note that it will be cropped to a square format.



Last words

Now you can go ahead and spice up your profile by adding a profile video.

With this, we come to the end of this tutorial. Share it with your Facebook friends and help them upload an animated profile picture on Facebook.

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