How to put Animoji on Instagram

Scrolling through the Instagram feed and looking at the stories of your friends on the famous photo social network, you noticed that some of them have published videos with Animoji, the animated and customizable smileys that can be made with Apple devices. Intrigued by it and eager to do the same, you then rushed to the Web in search of information about it and ended up on this guide of mine on the subject.

How do you say? The situation is precisely this and would you like to understand if I can explain to you how to put Animoji on Instagram? Of course yes, God forbid. If you dedicate a few minutes of your precious time to me, in fact, I can illustrate, in a simple way but not for this lack of details, how to publish the contents in question both in posts and in stories, not only acting from iPhone but also from Android.

I already anticipate that, contrary to what you might think, it is not a complicated operation, quite the contrary. Come on then: position yourself comfortably and immediately begin to concentrate on reading what is reported below. I wish you good reading and have fun!

Index

• Preliminary information
• How to enter Animoji on Instagram
• How to put Animoji in Instagram stories

Preliminary information

Before getting to the heart of the tutorial, going to explain how to put Animoji on Instagram, there is some preliminary information about it that I have to give you.

To begin with, let’s try to understand what exactly the Animoji are. As anticipated at the beginning, these are animated emojis available “standard” on the most recent Apple-branded mobile devices: iPhone X and later models and 11 / 12.9-inch iPad Pro and later models.

To achieve them, facial recognition is used, through the front camera of the device, as they trace what are the user’s expressions. They can depict both animals and fictional characters. In short, it is a dynamic and animated version of Memoji, the “static” smileys always present on the devices of the “bitten apple”.

Once created, the Animoji can then be shared on Instagram in the form of a video, so it is possible to insert them both in the posts and in the stories, as usual with any other movie.

To create an Animoji and record a video with it, just open the iPhone Messages app, tap on the icon with the paper and pencil located at the top right, in order to start a new conversation with a sender of your choice (if you do not want to send the video with the Animoji to third parties, you can also choose your own contact) or select an existing conversation and tap on the stylized “A” icon and then on that of the smiley face with glasses on black background.

At this point, you have to choose the Animoji you prefer or create a custom one by tapping the (+) button, bring the iPhone to face height to frame yourself with the front camera and record the video, pressing the button with the red circle round.

Once the recording is complete, tap the arrow icon to send the Animoji in the selected conversation. Subsequently, save the video with the newly created Animoji in the smartphone Gallery, so that you can then use it on Instagram, by making a long tap on its preview and choosing the Save item from the menu that appears. For more details, you can refer to my specific guide on how to make videos with Animoji.

On Android, however, it is not possible to have the exact same animated smileys, but you can still get something similar using a feature integrated in the Camera app of some smartphones, for example the Samsung Galaxy S9 and later models, but also using apps used for this purpose, such as VideoMoji and EMOJI Face Recorder, which are free (but with in-app purchases) and which can be downloaded directly from the Play Store (possibly they are also available on alternative stores ). For more information, I refer you to reading my guide on how to make Animoji on Android.

How to enter Animoji on Instagram

Having made the necessary clarifications above, I would say that we can finally take action and find out how to insert the Animoji on Instagram. If what you want to do is insert the Animoji in a post, the first step you need to take is to start the Instagram app for Android or iOS, press the (+) button located in the lower center and select the video with the Animoji that you created earlier, as I explained to you in the previous chapter.

By doing so, at the top of the screen, you will be shown the preview of the movie. Press, therefore, on the Next item located at the top right and, if you want, make any changes to the video: you can set a filter by choosing it from the Filter section, you can cut the movie by acting from the Cut section and you can select the cover from the Cover section. Then decide whether to leave the audio active or not, by pressing the button with the speaker at the top, and tap the Next item again.

Finally, enter an accompanying caption for the image in the Write a caption field; decide whether to tag other Instagram users, by tapping on the item Tag people, and whether to add a position, by choosing it from the Add place section.

Then decide whether to publish the photo also on the other supported social networks ( Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr ), by moving the relative switches from OFF to ON, and press on the Share item located at the top right, in order to publish the content and, therefore, complete the procedure to put the Animoji on Instagram.

How to put Animoji in Instagram stories

Wondering how to put Animoji in Instagram Stories? I’ll settle you immediately. First, open the Instagram app on your Android or iOS device and press the camera icon located at the top left or on the thumbnail of your avatar with the (+) button next to it that you find on the main screen of the ‘application.

Next, check that the History option is selected in the lower part of the new screen proposed (otherwise you can do it by swiping the screen) and download the Animoji video you created earlier, as I explained to you in the present step start guide, and which is saved in the Gallery of your mobile phone, by previously tapping on the preview located at the bottom left.

Afterwards, you will be shown the selected video on the Instagram screen. If you deem it necessary, you can edit it using the tools for editing the stories integrated in the app, by pressing on the icons located at the top: the one with the face with the stars allows you to apply filters and effects, the one with the sticker to insert gifs, stickers, music pieces, etc., the one with the drawing stroke and the Aa icon allows you to insert texts.

Finally, proceed with the publication of the video with the Animoji, by tapping the Send to button located at the bottom right and then deciding whether to share the story on Instagram and possibly also on Facebook or only with close friends, by touching the relative Share button that you find on the next screen.

For more information on how to make stories on Instagram, I invite you to read the tutorial that I have dedicated entirely to the topic.