You can only share posts from public accounts. If you don't want your content to appear on other people's Stories, you can check it in your settings.

34. Add a soundtrack to the story from the Instagram music library

You can choose from thousands of songs!

1. When you've taken a photo or video for your story, tap the stickers (smiley) icon at the top of the screen.
2. Then click the sticker Music in the menu and open the Instagram music library.
3. Select a song by searching for a specific track or by mood, genre or trend.
4. Click Play to listen to the song before adding it to your story.
5. After selecting a song, you can fast forward or rewind it to start playback from a certain point.
6. Finish adding to the post as usual and click the Your Story button below to publish the post.

35. Share a song or album from Spotify to stories

Show how trendy your brand is.

1. Open the Spotify app.
2. Find the song or album you want to share.
3. Press the three dots to open the options menu.
4. Scroll down and click Share.
5. Click Instagram Stories .
6. Instagram will open and you can add a sticker, text or picture to the picture of the album you're sharing (if you share a particular song, the app will still show the album it's in).
7. Then press Your history to add the song.

36. Get music recommendations with Questions Sticker

Whether you want new music to get you into the holiday spirit or new tunes to help you get through your final weeks of school, your friends have the perfect tracks for you.

1. Click on the square emoji in your story to add a question sticker.
2. Click sticker with questions and then music icon so people can send you a song. They can click on a sticker in your story and then write a question or send you a song.
3. When you view history and swipe up, you will see who replied. Click on someone's answer to share it. The photo and username will not be displayed.

37. Save the whole story to the gallery

If you want to publish it on another channel later.

1. Open your story.
2. Swipe up on the screen.
3. Click the arrow icon in the circle in the upper right corner of the screen.

You can also save individual posts from your history by downloading them by clicking the down arrow icon in the lower left corner of the screen. If you've published a post, go to the photo or video you want to save, tap the three-dot icon in the bottom right corner, and select Save photo .

38. Post a story on your profile

If your story ー is fire and you want everyone to see it ー even those who haven't been on Instagram in the 24 hours it's showing ー post it on your profile.

1. Open your story.
2. Tap the three dots icon in the bottom right corner of the photo or video you want to share.
3. Press Share as a post.
4. Edit ー add filters, tags, captions, etc. ー and publish as usual.

39. Find out how your stories are doing

Want to know how your stories are doing? Take a look at this little-known feature to find out who has viewed posts.

1. Open your story.
2. Swipe up on the screen.
3. Instagram will show the number of views as well as the names of people who have seen each photo or video in your story.

40. Zoom in and out video with one finger

1. Swipe right to open the story camera.
2. Hold down the capture button with one finger to start recording video.
3. Swipe up or down with the same finger to zoom in or out.

41. Hide stories from specific users

Method 1

1. Go to your profile and press the three-line menu.
2. Press Settings.
3. Click Privacy > History .
4. Click Hide my stories from .
5. Select the people you want to hide the story from, then tap Done (iOS) or checkmark symbol (Android).
6. To display your history again, tap blue tick and uncheck.

Method 2

You can also select the people your story will be hidden from when you view the list of people who have seen your story.

1. Tap the three horizontal dots (iOS) or three vertical dots (Android) to the right of their name and select "Hide history from [Username]".

Hiding your story from a person is different from blocking and does not prevent them from seeing your profile and posts.

42. Hide your story from the location or hashtag page

1. Click Viewed in your story.
2. Viewers who view your story via location or hashtag page will appear at the top.
3. Click x to the right of a hashtag location or page to hide your story from them.

43. Only share your story with close friends

Make a "best friend list" to share private moments with a small group of your choice.

1. Go to your profile and click the three-line menu.
2. Click Best friends .
3. Press Add next to the people you want to add to your close friends list. You can also click Search, to find a friend.
4. Press Done when finished adding people to the list.

You can safely update the list and remove people from it. They will not know that you have added or removed them.

1. Tap the camera icon in the top left corner or swipe right from anywhere in the feed.
2. Tap the circle at the bottom of the screen to take a photo, or press and hold to record a video. To select a photo from your phone's library or gallery, swipe up anywhere on the screen.
3. When you're ready to post, click Best Friends at the bottom left.

People on your list will know they're on it, but won't be able to see who else is on it. If someone has added you to their list, you will see a green badge when viewing their stories and a green ring around their profile photo.

44. Hide someone's stories by not unfollowing the profile

Whatever the reason, we are all subscribed to at least one account, the content of which we may not like, but for some reason it is impossible to unfollow the account. What is the solution? Switch his stories to silent mode.

• Press and hold the profile picture of the account you want to disable.
• Press Switch to silent mode . This moves the history to the end of the queue and prevents it from playing automatically.
• To undo this, press and hold the history icon and press Unlock .

45. Add a text post to your story

A picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes you only want to say a few words.

1. Go to history, select Text under the capture button.
2. Touch the screen and write the text.
3. Click the button at the top of the screen to view different styles.
4. Select a background and text color.
5. Click the icon > when you've finished customizing your design and publish your story.

46.

Now you can share a large-format photo of a group of colleagues without cutting Gary out of accounting.

1. Upload a wide photo or video and slide your fingers to zoom out and share the photo at original size.
2. The empty space will be filled with a color gradient that matches the photo.

47. Pin your best stories to your profile header

Businesses can keep their best stories forever with Instagram Stories Highlights.

1. Click on the circle New on the left side of your business profile.
2. Select any stories from your archive (note: Stories from business profiles are automatically saved to the archive after the show time).
3. Select an album art icon and name the collection.
4. Your collection will appear as a circle on your profile that plays as a single story when someone clicks on it.
5. To edit or delete pinned stories, tap and hold the icon on your profile.

Eternal stories remain on your profile until you delete them. You can post as many pinned stories as you want. Check out how to create timeless story cover icons for free so that your icons really stand out from the crowd.

48. Share Instagram story in Facebook stories

You can do this for a single post, or you can set the app to automatically post all your Instagram Stories to our Facebook page.

1. Start creating a story, then press Next .
2. Click on Your Facebook Story .
3. Click Share .

1. Go to your profile and click on the three-line menu.
2. Press Settings .
3. Click Privacy > History .
4. Turn on the Share story on Facebook toggle to enable the export of posts.

49. Share the recording of the live broadcast in stories

Another feature available to business accounts.

After the live broadcast ends, click Share at the bottom of the screen and the video will be added to your story.

Note . The recording will be available within 24 hours. During playback, all comments and likes from the original broadcast will be displayed. Companies will also be able to know exactly how many people watched the video ー both live and recorded in stories.

50. Share a story preview

Want to encourage your audience to watch the rest of your account's stories? We have a simple trick for this.

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• Open stories and take a photo or select one from your library by swiping up.
• Click on the pen icon in the upper right corner of the screen.
• Select a color.
• Press and hold on the screen for 1-3 seconds until the screen is filled with a fill.
• Click on the eraser symbol in the upper right corner.
• Erase the part of the image you want to show by swiping the screen or touching the screen with your index finger.
• Click Your Story, to share the image.

51. Link your IGTV video to your stories

If you just created an IGTV account, let your followers find your new content ー share it in stories.

• In your stories, select the image you want to post (a screenshot or a still from your IGTV video).
• Touch the link icon in the top right corner of the screen and select IGTV Video from the menu Add Link .
• Select the desired video and click Done in the upper right corner of the screen.

Now your followers can go to the video on IGTV by scrolling through the story on Instagram.

Profile description hacks

52. Include a hashtag or profile link in your profile description

In your profile description, you can link to a hashtag page or other account.

1. Click the profile icon to log into your account.
2. Click Edit profile and go to section
   About me .
3. Enter # or @ and a list of recommended hashtags and accounts will appear.
4. When you select the hashtags and accounts you want, they will become active and link to the About me section.

Note . When you mention someone else's profile in the description, their owner receives a notification and can remove the link. The account will remain in your description, but without an active link.

53. Hide photos you've been tagged in (or remove the tagging completely)

Has your company been tagged in an image you don't want to be associated with? There are ways to remove it from your profile.

1. Click the person icon to access your profile.
2. Click on the person icon in the frame below the profile description to go to the tab Photos and videos with you .
3. Click on the photo you want to remove from your profile.
4. Click on the three dots icon in the upper right corner and select Post Settings.
5. Select Hide from my profile or Remove label, if you want remove label.

Pro Tip: If you don't want tagged photos to appear on your profile, go to the three-line menu, section Privacy > Tags and toggle the Add automatically toggle switch to inactive.

54. Add line breaks to your profile description to make text stand out

If you want to break up a block of description text about yourself, this hack is for you. Line breaks are a great way to add information and enhance the visual experience.

1. Open the note app and write the text including line breaks.
2. Select all text and select Copy .
3. Open the Instagram app.
4. Click on your profile icon to access your profile.
5. Click Edit profile .
6. Paste the text from the notes into the profile description field.
7. Press Done to save your changes.

1. Log into your Instagram profile in a browser.
2. Select Edit Profile .
3. Break text into paragraphs the way you want them to appear.
4. Press Submit, to save the changes.

Note . It does not matter if the profile was edited from a mobile device or from a PC, when viewed from a desktop computer, the information will be displayed without paragraphs.

55. Include a link in your profile description to drive traffic

Profile Description ー A great place to link and drive traffic to your website or other social network.

How to:

Click on the profile icon and go to it.

1. Click Edit profile .
2. Insert the link you want to share.
3. Click Done to save your changes.

Pro tip: include UTM parameters in your URL to track the amount of traffic coming from your profile link.

56. Make your description appear in more search results

You can search for a person in the profile description by field Name . If you mention keywords related to your business in your name, you will appear more often in the search results of people who are looking for companies in your industry.

• Click on Edit Profile .
• In section Name , change the text to include keywords.
• Click Done in the upper right corner of the screen.

57. Change profile description alignment

Tired of left alignment? There is a way to align the profile description to the center or even to the right.

• Go to your profile on a PC browser (it's easier than on a mobile phone).
• Copy the space between the arrows (not the arrows themselves!): >> ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ <<
• Click Edit profile .
• In field of description , paste the spaces you copied above before each line of text. Add or remove spaces to align text further to the right or left.

Note: you only have 150 characters to describe the profile and each space counts as a character.

58. Add special characters to your profile description or caption

On some Instagram profiles you will see symbols such as hearts, stars and pencils. You can do that too!

• Open a Word or Google document.
• Start typing about yourself. To place a special character, press Insert then Special characters.
• Add icons.
• Open your Instagram profile in a web browser and click Edit Profile .
• Copy and paste text from a Word or Google document into the profile description and click Done .

59. Switch to a business profile to serve ads and get analytics

If you represent a business and still don't have an Instagram business profile, you're missing out on useful features and insights. Switch now.

1. Go to your profile and click the three-line menu.
2. Press Settings .
3. Click Account .
4. Click Switch to professional account .
5. We recommend that you connect your business account to a Facebook page that is linked to your business. This will make it easier to use all the features available to companies. Currently, only one Facebook page can be connected to your account.
6. Add details such as your company or account type and contact information.
7. Press Done .

Hashtag Hacks

60. Find the best (and most relevant) hashtags

Because with the right hashtag, your content will be found more often and it will allow you to expand your audience.

1. Select the magnifying glass icon and go to the search tab.
2. Enter a keyword and tap the tab Tags .
3. Select a hashtag from the list.
4. You will land on the posts page with that hashtag.
5. Above the tabs TOP and Recent appears a small line labeled Similar . Next to it, Instagram will display a list of similar hashtags that you can scroll through for inspiration (and further search).

61. Subscribe to updates of interesting hashtags

Great way to get inspired to create content!

1. Select the magnifying glass icon to go to the search tab.
2. Enter the hashtag you want to follow.
3. On the hashtag page, click the Follow button.

62. Save the hashtags for later

If you often use the same hashtags for every post, save them in a note to save time.

1. Create a new document in the notes app on your mobile device.
2. Add the most frequently used labels to the worklist.
3. When you come up with a post, go from Instagram to the notes app, copy the text and paste it into your caption.

63. Hide hashtags in posts

Don't pollute signatures. Hide hashtags so the reader can focus on what's important.

1. One easy way to hide hashtags ー is to remove them from your caption completely and put them in a comment under your post.
2. As soon as someone writes another comment, your hashtags will be securely hidden in the comments section.

1. Another method is to separate hashtags from the rest of the caption by burying them under an avalanche of line breaks.
2. Press the key 123 when writing a signature.
3. Select Enter .
4. Enter part of the punctuation marks (period, bullet or dash), then press Enter again.
5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 at least five times.
6. Instagram hides captions after three lines, so hashtags won't be visible unless your followers click yet on your post.

64. Hide hashtags in stories

You can include up to 10 hashtags in a single story, which will greatly increase the number of people who see it. To keep your story from looking cluttered, there are two easy ways to hide hashtags and maintain a neat appearance.

1. After you have entered the hashtags, reduce them to the minimum size using your thumb and forefinger.
2. Place a sticker, big emoji or GIF on top of them.

1. After you have typed the hashtags, reduce them to the minimum size using your thumb and forefinger.
2. Click on the hashtags again.
3. Then click on the eyedropper icon in the lower left corner.
4. Click on the area where you want to hide hashtags. The hashtag text will be painted in the same color as the background, effectively hiding the captions.

Hacks for private messages in Direct

65.

If you don't want your followers to know when you last logged into the app, you can disable your activity status in Instagram Direct Messenger.

1. Click the profile icon in the lower right corner of the screen.
2. Press Settings .
3. Scroll down and select Online Status.
4. Switch to inactive position.

66. Send disappearing content to other accounts

You can send a disappearing photo, video, or boomerang to another account or group of friends using Instagram Direct Messaging.

1. On the home screen, tap the camera icon in the top left corner of the screen. You can swipe right to open the camera, or open Instagram Direct by tapping the paper airplane icon in the top right corner of the screen, then tapping the camera icon in the top left corner.
2. Take a photo, video or boomerang.
3. Please edit.
4. Click the > icon in the lower right corner of the screen.
5. Select a recipient OR click New group to send a message to multiple people in the same group chat.
6. Click Send at the bottom of the screen.

If you select multiple recipients without creating a group, the same message will be sent to each user.

67. Send live video

You can send your live video or the video you are watching to a user or group.

1. When capturing live video, tap the Direct (paper airplane) icon at the bottom of the screen and send the live stream to your friends (you'll also have this option when you're streaming with a friend).
2. After sending, the recipient will see your video in the Yandex.Direct mailbox. Friends can only view your video if you are currently live.

68. Edit a photo of a friend and send it to him

1. When viewing a photo message from a friend, tap the camera icon at the bottom and capture the reply.
2. Your answer includes a sticker of what you are replying to.
3. Move photo, resize, add rotation with stickers, text and pictures.

Original post https://blog.hootsuite.com/instagram-hacks/

Translated by Tatyana Pushkina especially for Convert Monster

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Instagram Stories: Everything you wanted to know about them but were afraid to ask

How to add, view, share, and delete a story

Tap the Instagram camera icon in the top left corner of your screen, or simply swipe right across the screen anywhere in your feed. To take a photo, tap the circle icon at the bottom of the screen (Normal) - for video, you need to hold it with your finger. To select an existing photo/video from the gallery on your phone, tap on the gallery thumbnail at the bottom left, or simply swipe up anywhere on the screen. You can select multiple photos and videos at once.

After taking or selecting a photo, you can apply one of the filters to it by swiping right or left on the photo. To add typed text, a freehand drawing (or again text), a sticker (on Instagram in Russia it is called a “sticker”) and emoji, tap the corresponding images at the top right of the screen. By selecting the sticker icon, you can also specify a location, mention a user with the @ tag, add a hashtag, add a gif, take and add a photo from the front camera of the phone, ask a question or invite other users to ask you a question, conduct a poll with two answer options (instead of the default "yes" and "no" you can write your own).

You can delete an added item by dragging it down to the trash can icon at the bottom of the screen.

You can then either save your story or publish it right away by clicking on "Your Story" below the "+" sign in a dashed circle. This will make it available to all subscribers. Or you can pre-select a particular recipient or a group of recipients at the bottom right.

To share a published story in Direct, tap the paper airplane icon in the bottom right corner of a photo or video, select the people you want to share, and click Share. In order for a story to be seen on Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler or Odnoklassniki, your account there must be linked to Instagram. Then, after creating a story, click on it and click "More", select "Share in the publication ...", "Next" and mark the desired social network. In the "Advanced settings" you can select "Share posts on Facebook" - then your photo and video stories will appear on this social network automatically.

In a hurry, accidentally submitted a story for publication, or just changed your mind? No problem - just click on your own story, tap the vertical ellipsis "More" icon in the bottom right corner of a photo or video, and then select "Delete".

If, on the contrary, you want to save what you have created (not only in the feed and then in the archive), in the same "More" select "Save photo / video" - this is how it will appear in the gallery on your phone.

How to repost a story

In your story, you can repost someone else's post from the feed - but only if the user's account is public and reposts of his posts are allowed. Click on the paper airplane icon below the photo or video in the feed and select "Add post to your story." At the same time, everyone who views your story will see the signature of the real author of the content (Instagram profile name).

Stories can only be reposted using a third-party app — search Google Play or the App Store using story saver, story repost, etc. You can only repost other people's stories on Instagram if you are tagged there with the @ tag. In this case, you will receive a corresponding message in Direct and you will be able to add this story to yourself, editing, if necessary, in preview mode.

Is it possible to add multiple stories

You can add multiple photos and videos by repeating the algorithm from the previous section over and over again, but they will all be combined into one common “Your Story” and displayed sequentially. You can switch between stories by touching the screen on the left or right side.

How to add a link in history

Not all users can add a link in history - only owners of verified accounts and business accounts with at least 10 thousand subscribers (if you have a personal account, when you reach this number of subscribers, it will automatically get business status).

In this case, when you create a story, at the top right, in addition to the usual icons, you will see an image of a pair of chain links. After clicking on it, a new window will open where you can add the URL. In the history, the link itself will not be visible, but a label will appear at the bottom: "More", "More", "Install", "Register", etc. , depending on the content. You can go to the address only by swiping up on this mark with your finger.

In this case, the user viewing your story will be able to follow the link only by swiping up on it.

Keep in mind that Instagram does not track conversions and does not analyze URLs, so either put a link with a redirect or shorten the link with a UTM tag using a special service: Google URL Shortener, "Clicker" from "Yandex" , vk.cc from VKontakte, Bitly, etc.

How to tag a person in your story

The easiest way to tag another Instagram user in your story is to click on the sticker icon in the upper right when creating a story and select the ready-made @mention sticker ': All you have to do is enter your username.

But you can type the name in a different font size and/or highlight it in a different color (by clicking on the eyedropper image — any available on the photo/video). To do this, click on the text icon in the upper right, select the desired font size and color, and then put the @ symbol immediately before the username.

After that, the username in the story can be clicked and followed by a link to his profile page, and the person himself will receive a notification that he was mentioned. In total, no more than 10 people can be mentioned in one story.

How to add story covers

The photo or first frame of the video of the stories you added to the Highlights section automatically becomes the cover (and you can do this when viewing the story by clicking on "Select" at the bottom right). If you want a different cover, click on the story in the "Actual" and select "Edit cover" - this way you can change the look of the photo or video frame (for example, zoom in and move) or select any photo from your own photo gallery on your phone.

Music for stories - what is it? Is it possible to add in Russia?

At the end of June, Instagram added a new feature to the app - the ability to add music to a story right at the moment the story is created. To do this, click on the sticker icon at the top right, and then select the appropriate Music sticker. This will open the audio library, where you can search for tracks or select something in the categories “Popular” (Popular), “Moods” (Moods) and “Genres” (Genres). The track can be trimmed and added to the story with a passage lasting from 5 to 15 seconds. At the same time, while viewing a story, a person, by clicking on a music sticker, will see the name of the track and the name of the artist.

The feature is currently unstable and not available at all in many regions, including Russia, due to music licensing issues. Therefore, not only will you not be able to add music when creating your story, but you will not be able to listen to it in the stories of other users. In this case, the only way to make a musical story is to record a video with music playing behind the scenes or choose a finished video with music already overdubbed on it. Well, or use a good old VPN so that the application does not recognize your region ;-)

However, even in the US, many users complain that even the latest iPhone and the latest version of Instagram do not have a music sticker, and contacting Instagram support remains unanswered.

Hidden stories - what is it? How to hide someone else's story, find out who watched yours, and hide it from a specific person

Tired of the intrusive flow of stories in the feed from overly active users? You can easily cover it up. To do this, tap and hold on the photo of the person whose stories you no longer want to see at the top of the feed, select "Temporarily block" and then "Hide story." The same can be done in the user profile by opening the context menu at the top right. To turn back stories, repeat and select Unblock Story (Android) or Show Stories (iPhone).

If you want to hide your own stories from someone, click on the context menu icon, select "Settings" at the bottom left, find "Story Settings" (Android) or "Manage Stories" (iPhone), and then tap "Hide My stories from. Here you will see a list of your subscribers, among which you can select those from whom you want to hide your stories. To show them your stories again, do the same and uncheck the box.

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