Hey everyone, I’m having some weird issues with Giphy today. When I try to use the Giphy feature in Instagram, it’s just not loading at all. I checked a few other apps on my phone and the same thing is happening there too. The Giphy search just sits there doing nothing or shows error messages.
I’m wondering if this is just me or if other people are seeing the same problem. Has anyone else noticed that Giphy isn’t working properly in their apps today? I tried restarting my phone and checking my internet connection but nothing seems to fix it. Really frustrating because I use GIFs all the time in my posts and stories.
It appears that the problem with Giphy is widespread and not limited to just a few users. I too encountered similar issues with various social media platforms, including Instagram and Twitter. It seems that Giphy’s servers are experiencing downtime, likely affecting all apps that utilize their service. In the past, such outages have resolved themselves within a few hours, but it’s advisable to keep an eye on Giphy’s Twitter account or status page for any updates on the situation.
Had this same issue today and found a workaround. Giphy’s broken for most third-party apps, but the keyboard GIF function sometimes still works when in-app search doesn’t. I switched to Gboard’s built-in GIF search since it pulls from multiple sources, not just Giphy. Got me back to posting GIFs while waiting for the fix. I also save frequently used GIFs to my camera roll now - learned that trick from past outages. These usually clear up within 24 hours.
Same here - started around noon for me too across all my apps.
It’s Giphy’s API acting up. When you see it in multiple apps, that’s the giveaway it’s not your phone or internet.
I work with API stuff and when Giphy goes down, everything breaks at once - Instagram, Twitter, messaging apps all use their backend.
Just gotta wait it out. Usually fixes itself in a few hours. You can check their status page or Twitter for updates, but it’ll probably be working before they even acknowledge it.
Same thing happened 3 months ago. Took about 4 hours then everything was fine again.
Yeah, seen this before with API dependencies. When Giphy goes down, it breaks functionality across tons of apps simultaneously.
What bugs me is how dependent we’ve become on third party services. I’ve dealt with similar headaches at work - our products breaking because some external API had a bad day.
Smart move is building your own backup system. I set up an automated workflow that monitors service outages and switches to alternative GIF sources when the primary fails. It pulls from multiple APIs and keeps a local cache of popular GIFs.
You could build something similar - automatically check Giphy status and switch to other GIF services when needed. Takes 30 minutes to set up and saves you from these frustrating moments.
Latenode makes this kind of failover system easy with its API monitoring and conditional logic features.