Instagram QR codes: Here's how to access yours and scan others

(Pocket-lint) - Instagram has a QR codification diagnostic that launched worldwide successful August 2020 and replaced the Snapchat-style Nametag. 

The QR codification diagnostic allows users to make a QR codification for different Instagram users to scan and instantly instrumentality them to that circumstantial profile. It's a speedy and casual mode to travel and stock details. 

• How to scan a QR codification connected your phone

If, for instance, you person a tiny concern with an Instagram account, the diagnostic enables you to make your code, people it retired and marque it casual for customers to travel you. Here's however it works and however to make your Instagram QR code.

How to make your Instagram QR code

The process for generating your QR codification is truly elemental and lone requires a fewer steps. To get to your QR codification travel the process below: 

1. Launch Instagram
2. Go to your profile
3. Tap the three-line paper settings icon
4. Tap 'QR Code' 

While the screens are arranged otherwise for iOS and Android users, the process is precisely the same.

Once you're connected your QR Code surface you tin nonstop your friends/contacts to scan it by pursuing the aforesaid process and tapping the 'Scan QR Code' icon astatine the bottommost of the QR Code screen.

Writing by Cam Bunton. Editing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 19 August 2020.