Instagram Adds New App Icons for Teen Users | Social Media Today

Meta’s trying to show that it’s still “down with the kids,” via a new option for teen accounts on IG, which will enable them to change their app icon to one of 6 new visuals. As part of the roll out of its recent update to teen account settings, including simplified protections, in alignment with movie ratings, Instagram’s now also providing these custom app icon options, which will give teens more ways to express themselves via the app. As explained by Instagram’s design team: “ With the creativity of illustrator @doncarrrlos , we’ve introduced six different aesthetics that teens can use to customize their app icons, including chrome, cosmic, slime and more. ” I mean, they look pretty basic to me. But then again, I’m definitely the target audience,  and it could well be that I’m totally out of touch with what teens want in app icons and options. I mean, Snapchat offers similar as part of its Snapchat+ package, and that’s been really popular with teen audiences. So maybe teens really do want to be able to customize their app icons in line with their chosen aesthetic, but it does seem like a fairly minor change, with some pretty
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