A Very Dumb Yet Amusing iMessage Prank: Infinite Typing Indicator GIF
Now that the iMessage protocol supports animated gifs, you can play an incredibly stupid prank on your friends by sending them this amusing animated image of the infamous “typing” animation that plays when the person on the other end of an iMessage conversation is in the midst of a reply.
All you need to do is send someone a message or two that suggests a juicy reply is coming.. then copy and paste the animated gif below of the ‘typing’ indicator, which loops continuously, and send that instead of another message:
The result; it looks like you are typing for 200 years, possibly an eternity, as the recipient waits ever impatiently for a reply.
Give it a try, it’s good fun, an entertaining prank, and it’s pretty harmless (though it might stress someone out that you send it to, they’ll think you’re writing a thesis to them if they don’t figure out it’s a prank!)
Here is the same image shown as a slightly larger size (ie; larger tap target) so that it can be easier to save to your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. For iPhone and iPad, simply tap and hold on the image and choose “Save Image” or just Copy it, then paste it into the recipients Message thread. For Mac or PC, right click the image and cnd choose “Save As” :
Oh and yes because the animated typing indicator is also on the Mac, you can use the same prank to Mac users too by sending it to anyone with macOS or Mac OS X too, but if you really want to play a (terribly horrible no good) prank on a Mac user, give them a fake kernel panic with this.
This little trick comes from the appropriately named site “Miscellaneous Mischief“, and though it made the rounds about a month ago, I wasn’t convinced it would work until someone played the prank on me today… so if I fell for it, then I’m sure other iPhone and iPad users will too.
Same thing for my phone. I hope my mom is dumb enough to not realize.
Can you make a dark mode version please?
It only works on people with light mode on
I had to send it to my friends. The got a message alert so they knew it was just a gif. But funny. If you type in a letter and don’t send and leave it there for like 2 months, it will show the … Thing and not show it is a gif b/c it doesn’t do the alert.
It doesn’t work in messenger😭🖕🔫
I have do this befor and its amazing
Add me on my Facebook my name is Joshua Roberts I’m Filipino
How can I send small because is end it to my gf its so big
Btw it’s Halloween 😌
It works
1.hold it down and paste
2.go to iMessage
3.go to one of ur friends
4.hold down on the message bar untell it says paste and click paste and send it😊😊😊😊😊
I was fighting with my friend and she wouldn’t text back so I left her there with it XD
Does it work on iPad mini?
It doesn’t work if Santa doesn’t have an iPhone
Didn’t work
It is an animated GIF, it works. Sorry your prank didn’t work out though.
I got my sister good with it she said “ok plz stop”
I GOT MY SISTER WITH IT
This really works thank you!! 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑. #😀
can you make the latest FB typing gif I want to prank someone. . . . .
thanks in advance
My friends aren’t stupid enough
It made my friends phone die XD lmao good one
When you send it to facebook messenger
The proper size of this gif doesn’t pop up correctly the size is too big
This doesn’t work anymore
Everyone, quick tip! If you want to save it hold it down :)
HAHHAHAHAHHAHAH 😂😂😂😂😂🌸🌸🌸🌸
Haha this is awesome! All my friends fall for it!
http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/imessage-sending-animated-gif.gif
Lol it was funny😂
just long-press the 3 dots that is animated on the top and save image . and there you have it. send it on imessage
You have to press on the gif until the save thing pops
Up
HOW DO I SAVE THE GIF OR COPY IT OR WHATEVER I CANT SEND IT IT JUST SENDS A LINK
HELP
ME
To a different website, copy And paste.
how can inget this one
Thanks. I’ll have a laugh with this one. 😂😂😂
How to save it.. Teach me pls
You just tap and hold the image then select “copy” then paste it on your message
Teach me
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
How do I get this
All my friends were getting mad 😂😂