Facebook: How to Use Your Avatar as Your Profile Picture

The change will be temporary

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Facebook recently launched Avatars, its take on Bitmoji, in the U.S. This feature allows users to create a personalized Avatar, or emoji, of themselves, which will be placed on stickers that can be shared in comments, Stories and more on the Facebook platform. After you’ve created your Avatar, you have the option to use it a temporary profile picture. Our guide will show you how this is done.

Note: These screenshots were captured in the Facebook application on iOS.

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