About two years ago, Facebook added the ability to create a custom avatar from its app, which you can then use as stickers in comments, Messenger, and status updates. the app of Instagram has its own avatar maker, although for now they cannot be used for anything.
If you entertain yourself by creating characters in your image and likeness, you can do the same with the Instagram avatar generator. It’s semi-hidden in the app options and, for now, you can’t in chats or messages, although this should change in future updates.
Instagram avatars too
The Instagram app is very keen on testing which end up reaching all users -or not- and one of them seems to be avatars. Officially, Instagram has not announced this feature and there is no mention about it in its help section. Still, the menu is active for at least some accounts.
To find out if you have access to Instagram avatars, you must open the application, go to Setting and enter account. One of the many menus that you will find next will be the avatar.
Meta seems to have recycled Facebook’s avatar creator a bit to bring it to Instagram (even the text that accompanies the splash screen talks about Facebook, not Instagram), but it’s not identical. Global Instagram Avatar Maker looks rougher than the one on facebook.
The process and steps are exactly the same, being able to choose skin tone, hairstyle, face shape and facial markings, eyes, eyebrows, nose, glasses, accessories, mouth, body, clothes, accessories and more, although there are fewer options than in the Facebook editor. The style of the resulting avatar is also somewhat different to that generated with Facebook.
Facebook avatar maker (left) and Instagram avatar maker (right). Similar, but not identical
With even fewer options, with Instagram’s avatar generator, you can probably replicate a character that slightly resembles you with a little patience. If you forgot which face you have, you can use the mirror to simultaneously see your face while creating your avatar, thanks to the mobile’s front camera.
Probably the most curious thing about all of this comes when you’ve finished setting up your avatar and hit Ready. The avatar is complete and the progress is saved in your account (you can change it later, if you want), but for now cannot be used anywhere in the app
The only thing you can do with this avatar you generated is to feel proud of your creation and sync it with facebook. If you sync it with Facebook, it will overwrite the one you have set up in your Facebook account and then you can enjoy it, but on Facebook and not on Instagram.
Taking into account that facebook avatar generator has more options, the truth is that it doesn’t make much sense to create it in an Instagram account and then sync it with Facebook.
Anyway, Instagram in general and Instagram beta in particular are very prone to all kinds of tests, so they consider two possible scenarios: that the “secret” avatar generator disappears overnight or that the avatar can be used in the application, for example, as stickers in the messaging section. Time will tell.
