Now this is a fun one, you can take a video from YouTube like goofy animal one or fun people celebrating, take a couple seconds and turn it into an animated GIF to send an a text or an email. Now we'll create our own shortcut, it's going to be really easy because now you're familiar with shortcuts. So we're not going to use the one that Apple provides. We are going to show you how you can start making your own so you can start personalizing your shortcuts to fit you and really help your life. So here we go. Open up shortcuts.
And then we're going to say create new shortcut. Now we're going to scroll down and find the first one to get a video. So we'll say get latest video, and you click on it, but that's the wrong way to do it. What you're going to do instead is you're going to scroll and you're going to say get video but you have to drag it into the box. So now it says the first video, get the latest video. I can make that more if I want to get four more videos or whatever, I can add a plus, then we're going to say turn it into a gift.
So make it a gift and drag it into the box. So now it says loop forever autosize and make it two seconds. Now I want to send the gift in text. So I'm going to say send message, and then I'm going to put it at the bottom. So it's going to make the video, turn it into a GIF and send the message. Now, I'm going to name it.
So I'll name it video to GIF. And this is just so we have a name for it. Otherwise we'll say untitled. Then we'll add to Siri and we click there. Press the button, video to GIF. And there that's done.
So we'll change the icon if you want. You can add a different picture. You know, maybe a picture of a video So you scroll down here, and you can scroll, the color change pictures of the color, the colors, you can keep everything all color coordinated, like maybe all your social media one color and your pictures and other color. And there we have a video icon. And so we did that. And you don't really need to show it in the widget cuz I don't know how often you'll be doing this.
So you can turn that off if you want. And then you click Done. And done. And there it is, let's test it out. So it runs it. Now that's amazing.
It did a series of things so fast. So it got the video that it turned the video into gifts, and then it opened it up in the text. And so you just fill in your email and do a comment and send it and to make things go faster. Use the microphone talk into the microphone. It also prevents texting neck, so the microphone is a faster, easier way to go for your home play. Send an animated video to your friends.
They're gonna be impressed Then come on back for a shortcut I use all the time.