Instagram continues to release news nonstop on its social network. The weeks of confinement have given and are giving for the arrival of a large number of news on the most popular social network of the moment.
On the platform we can currently find a large number of stickers and features that allow users to fully enjoy the platform, being able to entertain themselves and share moments of fun with their friends through live broadcasts or by using the popular stories , the most popular functionality of the platform.
On this occasion, Instagram has decided to launch a sticker for challenges or challenges, so that you can use it for anyone you can think of. During confinement, there have been countless challenges created by users and shared through social networks, since they are used as an alternative to spend time at home, a way to kill the dead time and have a good time, even for a weather.
In this sense, Instagram has decided to opt for the arrival of this new function to its stories, making it the remains are simpler to perform. Here's how it works.
New challenge sticker
Instagram has decided to launch a new sticker for challenges, that is, one of the usual stickers that you can place on a photo or video that you have created to publish in your stories. In this way you can specify the challenge in question, create that category and make it much easier for other people to participate, being faster and more comfortable than having to mention or nominate those people you want to do so.
This function can be of great interest, although it really would have had a greater impact and usefulness in the early phases of the coronavirus pandemic, since little by little it will return to normal. In any case, these challenges do not have to be something exclusive to this era and the label will be available to users to use whenever they need it.
These new stickers are found next to the rest of the stickers that you can find on your Instagram profile, so like the rest it is very easy, fast and simple to place. Below we show you the list of stickers so you can see which corresponds to the challenges ("Challenge"). It is located right next to the GIF sticker.
How to create your challenges on Instagram Stories
If you decide to create a new challenge or want to participate in an existing one from your account, you can make use of this sticker so that it is fully organized, which will also favor its visibility and make it more organized.
In this sense, you will first have to go to the Instagram application, where you will go to Instagram Stories by clicking on the camera icon that you can find in the upper right part of the app screen. Once this is done you can capture an image or a video at that moment or select any that you have in the gallery of your smartphone.
Once the photograph or video has been chosen or taken, you will only have to click on the icon of the stickers, which is easily identified among the icons at the top of the screen as a square with a bent corner. Once you have done it, you will be able to access the section in which all the stickers are gathered.
In it you must click on #Challenge, at which point it will ask you to enter the name of the challenge in the «CHALLENGE NAME«. This system has an autocomplete that will mean that once the name of the challenge is written it will be accompanied by the word challenge.
This system with the autocompletion will make that, just below you will see different alternatives that the users are using in the challenges at that moment, which will make you know the challenges that other users are doing in case you want to join them under the same label .
This sticker already has the word nomino so you can add the labels of your friends' profiles in a faster and more comfortable way and without having to create a text field for it.
In this way you can add the tags of your friends, family or acquaintances to participate in the challenge and under the same tag participate in it.
In addition, at the top of the screen, as with other stickers, you will be able to see how there is a color wheel, on which you can press to automatically change the color of the text you are writing. This is very useful to make the text display properly on any type of background. Of course, once you have chosen the name and color, you can place your new sticker in the place you prefer on the screen, as well as its layout and size.
As you can see, this new Instagram sticker works in line with the rest of the social network, so it is not a great innovation, but it can be very useful for challenges, since it will save time when participating in them and nominate other people and it will be more comfortable.
However, for the moment it must be taken into account that it does not allow you to start a new challenge that you inventInstead, you must participate in an existing one to be able to place the sticker in your story. If you still do not have the sticker, make sure to update the social network application to the latest version available and, if you still do not have it, wait a few days, since it is usual for this type of news to progressively reach users.
In this way, Instagram continues to try to improve its stories feature, the one preferred by a large number of users of the platform, although at the moment the vast majority of improvements are based on stickers.