Iphone with ios 14.2 here.
It is neither a browser nor ios issue, at least for me.
Many animated gifs are more and more webp, so not actually gifs. *These* cannot be played in the roll (only shows a frame). Gifs can still play.
Try googling for a basic animated gif, save to roll, then see if it plays.
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