Instagram announced that it's launching a dynamic profile photo that lets a user put together both a profile picture and an avatar. Hitherto, the user had only two choices: either view a profile picture or use an avatar on the account. Now you can toggle between the two.

Now you can add your avatar to the other side of your pic — and people who visit your profile can flip between the two. That's according to Meta-owned company in a Twitter post.

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To add an avatar on the other side of your profile picture, you need to go to the "Edit Profile" button. Once you add the avatar, your profile picture will automatically flip over to your avatar when people visit your profile.

The social media network has noted that this update is the first time that it's introducing avatar animation because your avatar will wave when it is displayed.

Meta rolled out avatars on Instagram nearly a year ago and is looking to nudge them higher up in the app with dynamic profile photo. The company first introduced avatars last year, 2020, as part of its efforts to compete with Snap's Bitmoji and has continually updated the same since then on Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger.

The new dynamic profile photo feature was released by Instagram a few days after head Adam Mosseri said the social network would focus more on photos in 2023. During his weekly Q&A with users, Mosseri admitted that Instagram showed too many videos and not enough photos last year. He reassured users that photos will always be important for the platform.