Stories on Instagram have been a revolution when it comes to sharing content on this social network. They allow us to publicize very quickly any moment with the people who follow us. The problem is that their arrival is just as fleeting as their disappearance, since they are no longer available 24 hours after creating them, unless you do something to prevent this from happening. Today we tell you how you can make them eternal using the featured Instagram stories .
What can you do with featured stories on Instagram?
This is one of the most common questions regarding this possibility within the “little camera” social network.
Whether you are a content creator (you work on it) or if you are a normal user who uses Instagram merely on a personal level, using the highlights will allow you to permanently save all those stories you want. Therefore, both you and the rest of the people who follow you can consult them at any time.
This can be extremely useful for:
- Group and save the memories of a trip.
- Create collections that may be interesting to your followers.
- Show your progress in certain disciplines.
- Even give an extra point of creativity to your profile. An example of this can be those users who use the featured stories to show all the countries they have traveled through.
In short, opting for this possibility that Instagram offers us can be highly recommended for any user who wants to permanently keep what they published in one of their stories. And the process is extremely simple.
How to Create Featured Stories on Instagram
As we mentioned, the process to create this type of content is very simple and with just a few clicks we will have it saved. To create a highlight of a story that you have recently created, you must follow these steps:
- From your feed, go to your photo to access recently created stories. Here you will see a heart icon at the bottom with the name “Highlight”. Press it.
- The menu that now appears is the one that, once the categories have been created, will allow you to quickly classify the following stories. If this is the first time that you carry out this process, only the option “New” will appear. Click on the plus icon.
- Now you will have to name the category. You can be calm if you make a mistake or want to change it in the future because you can.
- Once you click on “Add” this story will have been saved in your profile. You can see it just under your description and just before your posts.
Edit and personalize featured stories
Now you can customize or adjust any detail of this collection .
You just have to click on it, enter the “More” option in the lower right corner and click on “Edit featured stories”. Here you can change the name, adjust the cover photo (which does not have to be one of the visible stories in the collection) or delete any of these stories if you wish.
Add old stories to highlights
One of the benefits of this Instagram feature is that you can get back some of the stories you created and, as usual, they disappeared the next day.
While in the same menu as the previous section, enter the “Stories” category that is next to the “Selected” content. In this section you will find a list that goes from the stories you recently created to those published in December 2017 , which is when this function was implemented.
This is everything you need to know about creating outstanding stories on Instagram . A very useful function, as we have already mentioned, for any type of user. If you have any questions about these, do not hesitate to leave us a comment and we will try to solve it for you.
