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December 05, 2017
Today we’re introducing two new tools that let you hold on to your favorite moments from Instagram Stories and share them in ways that help you express yourself. Stories Highlights is a new part of your profile where you can express more of who you are through stories you’ve shared. And to help you build highlights, your stories will now automatically save into a private Stories Archive so you can easily relive them whenever you want.
Over the past year, Instagram Stories has become a key part of how you express yourself — but there hasn’t been an easy way to keep your stories around for more than 24 hours. Now you can more fully express your identity by grouping stories you’ve shared into highlights and featuring them on your profile.
Stories Highlights appear in a new section on your profile below your bio. To create a highlight, tap the “New” circle at the far left. From there, you can choose any stories from your archive, select a cover for your highlight and give it a name. Once you’re done, your highlight will appear as a circle on your profile that plays as a stand-alone story when someone taps it. Highlights stay on your profile until you remove them, and you can have as many highlights as you’d like. To edit or remove a highlight, just tap and hold that highlight on your profile.
Story Highlights lets you show all the sides of your personality, and you can make highlights out of anything you’ve shared to your story in the past. From the best moments of your ongoing soccer season to all the stories you capture of your loved ones, the interests and activities that matter most to you have a home right on your profile.
Moving forward, your stories will automatically save to your archive when they expire. This makes it easy for you to revisit your favorite moments later on or bring them back to life in a highlight.
To access the stories in your archive, tap the Archive icon on your profile. From there, you can easily switch between your Posts Archive and your new Stories Archive. In your Stories Archive, your stories will appear in a grid with the most recent stories at the bottom. The first story from each day will show a date indicator to help you navigate your archive as you scroll.
Tap on any story in your archive to watch it. From there, you can add it to your story, share it as a post or add it to a highlight on your profile.
Only you can see your archived stories, and you can choose to turn off auto-archiving at any time in your profile settings.
To learn more about Stories Highlights and Stories Archive, check out the Instagram Help Center.
Today’s updates are available as part of Instagram version 25 on iOS and Android.
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It's cool that Instagram stories are temporary.
..until you want them to be permanent.
Allow us to introduce you to Instagram Highlights, which allow you to take content from your Insta Story or archive and put it in its own little "Highlight" section on your profile.
Did anything significant happen that you captured on your Story? Get engaged? Start a new job? Go to a concert? If it's on your Story, you can turn it into a Highlight to look back on when you go to your profile. Here's how to create one.
There are a few different ways you can start, but before we get there, the very first thing you need is an Instagram Story to get your Highlight from. Once you have that, you can access a number of ways to turn it into a Highlight.
1. Go to your profile page and, under "Story Highlights," tap the "+" button to add a Highlight.Add a Highlight. Credit: screenshot: instagram
Then tap "Story Highlight."Tap the "+" symbol on the top right, then select "Story Highlight." Credit: screenshot: instagram
The Highlight selection screen Credit: screenshot: instagram
Edit your Highlight cover and title it. Credit: screenshot: instagram
View your Highlight here. Credit: screenshot: instagram
Tap "Highlight" on the bottom right of the frame you want to Highlight.
Credit: screenshot: instagram
Create a new Highlight or add to another one. Credit: screenshot: instagram
View your Highlights here. Credit: screenshot: instagram
Create a Highlight from your Archive.
Credit: screenshot: instagram
And that's how Highlights are done. Find a special moment on your Instagram Story (or in your Archive) and Highlight it on your profile for you and your friends to look back on. Happy Highlighting!
The Highlights on Instagram feature allows you to save stories in a special archive that will be available only to you, and later create collections from them that are available to everyone. This feature appeared on December 5, 2017, and since then has been actively used by bloggers, companies as part of the Instagram promotion .
Before Highlights, stories on the social network were saved for only 24 hours.
The new feature allowed users not only to save stories to revisit later, but also to create compilations of the best moments and share them with friends. nine0005
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Story Highlights - actual stories - displayed in the description of the user's profile. You can add an unlimited number of stories to each new collection. All of them will be displayed as normal stories, in chronological order.
Simultaneously with the Highlights feature, Instagram introduced automatic saving of stories. Now, after 24 hours, they do not disappear, but are moved to the archive - they can be shared, reviewed later, or added to the collection. You can add to collections stories saved in the archive, that is, created after December 5, 2017. nine0005
To create a new collection, upload multiple stories, from one to infinity. Read more about using Stories in our article.
Once downloaded, go to your profile and click the "new" button in the Highlights section.
You will see a window with all saved stories. Select any of them in the order you would like later when displaying the Highlights compilation. Select the cover of the collection from the thumbnails of the story. Then write the name - it can contain up to 16 characters with spaces. nine0005
Important: by default, the cover of the new album is the image of the first story, cropped to the center. You can change the story that will become the cover and its centering.
After adding the stories, cover and title, save the new highlights . They will appear in your profile description and will be available to all users who visit your page. Collections will appear as normal stories. Their number is not limited - you can add 10, 20 or 100 "best moments", blog categories, product descriptions. nine0005
The Highlights feature can be used for promotion.
Browse competitor profiles and use their experience or develop your own original ideas. For example, you can:
If you sell several products, you can create one collection. If a lot - several albums categorized. nine0044
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Published Highlights can be edited or deleted. To change or delete them, go to your profile, tap on the desired collection and hold your finger on the screen until a pop-up window appears. Choose the option you need - edit or delete. nine0005
In edit mode, you can change the name of the collection, its cover, add another story to the best moments. You can also delete from the "best moments" of history that have lost their relevance.
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In the delete mode, the system will ask you again if you really want to delete the published album.
If you confirm the operation, it is permanently deleted. But the stories published in it are saved in the archive - you can create a new collection from them. Also, you can download any Stories from the Highlights section. nine0005
Old app
If you haven't updated Instagram in a while, the feature won't work. To be able to use Highlights, update the app to version 25 or later.
System crash
If you have the latest version of the app and still don't have Highlights, try reinstalling or restarting it.
Important: if neither updating nor reinstalling helped, write to the technical support service of the social network. nine0005
Do you use Highlights, and what stories do you upload to collections? Share your experience in the comments - we are very interested.
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Highlights on Instagram or actual (pinned) Stories appeared quite recently, but are already actively used by many commercial accounts. Highlights allowed to significantly expand the content of the header business profiles on Instagram .
The information that does not fit in the profile description or is relevant in connection with any holiday (February 23, March 8), can now be placed just below the description in the form of pinned Stories.
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Highlights are located below the description and above the content posted in the account (marked as Hot for account owners). Displayed only on the main profile page.
Most often used to post a price list, answer frequently asked questions, highlight current promotions, present new products, and so on. They are a set of Stories collected in one album, with an arbitrary name. nine0005
To make a pinned story, add a normal story. We talked about how to do this in an article about Instagram Stories .
After publishing a Story, open it and click on the heart icon, then confirm that you want to highlight the story.
The second way to add a pinned story is from the main page of the account by clicking on the big plus. After that, you can select any of the previously published Stories or create a new one. Having marked the necessary Stories, then we come up with a name for the collection and click "Finish". nine0005
The album cover will be selected automatically, but you can change it by clicking "Edit Cover" and selecting any of the Stories in the collection as the cover.
After the done manipulations, the created collection will appear in the "Actual" section in your profile.
" Surely, while you were reading our ideas, an insight came to you and you came up with at least a few more ways to use the Highlights function. nine0005
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Remove from current.
The absence of the highlights function on Instagram can be due to the following reasons:
To be able to make pinned stories, update the app or software on your phone.
Conclusion
Highlights are quite a useful feature that you should definitely use to significantly expand the section with important information about the company.
