I've actually got the same issue. I did notice that gifs didn't play on the reddit version of the app way back when so I don't know if support didn't get added or what.
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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It seems that improvement of images in comments will come in the next version. I expect this to be solved then. For now, I don't think you can do anything.