I got this Base64 gif image:
R0lGODlhDAAMALMBAP8AAP///wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAACH5BAUKAAEALAAAAAAMAAwAQAQZMMhJK7iY4p3nlZ8XgmN
In my case worked a solution proposed here by @Masche. As I needed it in Swift 2.0 so:
let url = NSURL(string: imageString) let data = NSData.init(contentsOfURL: url!) let image = UIImage(data: imageData)