How to congratulate a birthday on Instagram Stories

Instagram Stories is one year old and the application is in luck. On the occasion of the celebration of such an important event, its developers have had a consistent idea: create stickers and stickers with which to congratulate any of our contacts in the application on the new year. Starting today, we will be able to congratulate our friends with fun stickers ranging from balloons to confettis, including a cake.

There are six stickers in total that we can place on our Instagram story: a 'Happy Birthday' sign, a shower of confetti, three balloons, a piece of cake and a birthday hat.Each of these elements also has several models. The hat, for example, can be chosen between polka dots or stripes. In addition, as usual, these elements can be changed in size and arrangement so that they fit better in your photograph.

How to congratulate a birthday on Instagram Stories?

With the greeting stickers we already have several ways to congratulate the birthday through Instagram Stories. To be able to put the new stickers, you must have the updated version of Instagram. Look at the stories: if a new story from Instagram itself appears, that means that you already have them activated. Now, slide the screen to the right, until you activate the Instagram Stories camera. Take a picture of yourself, as usual, and click on the stickers icon A translucent screen will open, containing the different stickers available. Choose the one you want and adapt it to the size and position you want.

Then, you will have to send the Instagram Stories to whoever celebrates their birthday. To do this, click on 'Next' and choose the contact to whom you want to send the story. And that's it. They will have already received the message and will be able to reply to you when they deem appropriate.

Repost, recall memories with your loved ones

Have you ever retweeted a tweet on Twitter? Well, the Repost application does exactly the same, but with photos from Instagram. Dive through your photos and look for a photo in which you and your friend who has a birthday appear together. Repost it, name it and the memory will become present thanks to the magic of this free application. In addition, this application will help you, from now on, to share all those photos of users that you like so much, to make them known.

Birthday party stickers

If the stickers that Instagram proposes for your Instagram Stories to celebrate your birthday fall short, you have an application in the Android store that can help you. It's called Birthday party stickers and it lets you choose from a lot of stickers (candles, gifts, balloons, cakes, numbers to set the age), as well as modify its size and position. The application is totally free but it is too invasive. Even so, it is a practical and entertaining way to increase the number of stickers to congratulate the birthday.

Send a funny congratulations video

You can also opt for a more classic method, but no less effective.To send a video to a contact, you must first send to the recipient of the video. To do this, enter the Instagram search magnifying glass. Next, search for the contact and press 'Send message' On the chat screen, at the bottom right, we see a camera icon. Here you can already create a Stories or a video and send it to him, thus making the congratulations a little more personal.