GroupMe beta for Windows 10 Mobile nabs GIF and Image search to spice up your messages

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By Daniel Rubino
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The Skype owned GroupMe app has been getting a steady flow of updates every other week and today's update for 1.9.2.0 (beta) up from 1.8.16.0 (beta) brings a nifty new feature: JPG and GIF search.

When users now post a new message to an existing conversation besides Media and Calendar options there is a new one for Media Search. The search area lets you browse an external repository for static images or animated GIFs within the app itself and embed them within the message.

Users can also type in phrases or words to search for GIFs or JPGs for something specific. Once embedded, a copy of the animated GIF or JPG is saved to a users Photo gallery for later use.

Currently, there are two versions of GroupMe for Windows 10 Mobile including a beta one found on Insider rings and the non-beta for Release builds. If you are on Windows 10 Mobile build 10586.218 or 242 you will be on GroupMe version 1.8.17.0 and won't yet have this new feature.

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Daniel Rubino
Daniel Rubino
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Daniel Rubino is the Editor-in-chief of Windows Central. He is also the head reviewer, podcast co-host, and analyst. He has been covering Microsoft since 2007, when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central). His interests include Windows, laptops, next-gen computing, and watches. He has been reviewing laptops since 2015 and is particularly fond of 2-in-1 convertibles, ARM processors, new form factors, and thin-and-light PCs. Before all this tech stuff, he worked on a Ph.D. in linguistics, watched people sleep (for medical purposes!), and ran the projectors at movie theaters because it was fun.