How Do I Insert GIF Into Text Message, Moto 4e

[Rocky Bennett]

Hello All,
I am an old man with my first smart phones and I can not figure these darn things out. I need a lot of help with both of my stupid phones but today I am going to start with the Moto 4e. A very simple question;

how do I insert a GIF into a text?

Every time that I try to insert a GIF into a text message I get the response

"This text field does not support GIF insertion from the keyboard."

After Googling the problem I tried to go to settings>apps>moto messaging>permissions

to see if that had any settings to help me, but I did not see anything there to change.

Also I tried to go to settings>data usage>cellular plan, but it was already switched on.

Like I said, I have absolutely no clue what I am doing so any help would be greatly appreciated. The phone is a Moto 4e and the Android number is 7.1.1.

After I get this figured out I will be asking for help trying to download photos from the phone to a PC and also how to get a ringtone from my PC into the phone and set that ring tone for just one person.

But first things first, the GIFs.

Thanks in advance,

Rocky

 

[Rocky Bennett]

If it makes any difference, my provider is PCS Metro.

 

[Clarisac]

Wow, that´s good.

 

[ManiacJoe]

My best guess about the GIFs is that is it is a limit of the SMS app you are using.

Try switching to Textra or one of the other big name SMS apps and see if the problem goes away.

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Start a new thread for the computer file transfers; those are easy to get done.