How to look at archived stories on instagram
Introducing Stories Highlights & Stories Archive
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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.
Stories Highlights
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.
Stories Archive
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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How to View Old Instagram Stories
Instagram Stories have become one of the most popular features of the social media platform, Like Snapchat Stories, Instagram Stories only appear on your feed for 24 hours, or until the person who posted the Story deletes it.
However, unlike Snapchat Stories, Instagram Stories don’t actually disappear completely after 24 hours. While Instagram Stories do disappear from your feed after 24 hours, they remain archived in the app. So, if you post a story but it expires before you get a chance to save the video, don’t worry, you can still recover it.
Like many users, you may not know that this feature exists, let alone how to access it. Let’s take a look at how you can view old Instagram Stories.
Accessing Your Expired Instagram Stories
As Instagram Stories increased in popularity, more and more users started asking Instagram for a way to access their stories outside of the regular 24 hour time limit.
In response to this, Instagram added the Highlights and Archive features back in 2017. Highlights allow you to group story elements and post them on your profile as a regular post. They’re labeled as Highlights but they behave the same as a regular Instagram post.
The other feature, Archive, saves your stories for future use.
It’s important to note that your stories get archived for your use only. For other people, they will disappear after 24 hours like normal.
The archiving feature should be turned on by default, but if it isn’t, you can turn it on in your Settings. Find the Stories panel in your Privacy Settings and toggle on the option that says Save to Archive.
- To view your older Instagram Stories, navigate to your profile screen, and tap on the hamburger icon in the top-right corner.
- From that menu, you should tap on Archive to access your Stories Archive.
From there, you can re-share, highlight, and otherwise interact with your Stories. That’s the gist of accessing your old Stories but seeing other people’s old Stories is an entirely different matter.
Can You View Someone Else’s Expired Instagram Story?
By design, Stories are only viewable for 24 hours, and there’s not really any way around this.
However, if you’re acquainted with the person who created the Story, you could request that they share it with you by saving it from their Archive.
In terms of seeing other users’ Stories that have already expired, that’s about as far as you can go. This feature was always intended to be ephemeral, just like Snapchat Stories.
However, if you frequently find yourself wanting to view other users’ expired stories, there are a few proactive steps you can take.
Saving Other Users’ Stories
The good thing about Stories is that they last a whole 24 hours. This gives you plenty of time to decide whether you want to save one.
Some websites are designed to save Instagram Stories. The most minimalist and approachable of these is Storiesig.
- All you need to do is enter someone’s username and the website will find all their active Stories.
- From there, just select the Story you want to save and click Download.
This isn’t the only option, as many other websites can do the same.
However, this is the most hassle-free way to do it. Also, this won’t give you access to expired Stories, but if you catch them within the 24 hours since they were published, you’re good to go. This website also works on mobile devices, but there is another option for your phone.
Both Android and iOS have screen recorders for their newer versions. You can also get a screen recorder app and simply record the story. AZ Screen Recorder is a good option for both Android and iOS. All you have to do is start recording, view the Story, and then save the recording.
Again, these methods don’t give you access to past Stories, but they do allow you to retain active Stories on your device for future use.
Screen Recording Instagram Stories
If you’re looking to save someone else’s Instagram Story for future reference you can always screen record or screenshot the content during the 24-hour active period. You may wonder if Instagram will notify another user that you’ve captured the content.
There is a lot of debate about this, but as of right now you’re in the clear to take undetected screenshots of Instagram Stories. This won’t work with DMs, and Instagram has changed this several times through the years, so you’ll want to test it on another friend before taking a screenshot of someone who you’d rather your activities stay anonymous.
Once you’ve captured the story on your iPhone or Android, you can revisit the story in your camera roll as many times as you’d like.
Viewing Instagram Stories Saved as Highlights
Thanks to the highlights feature on Instagram, you may get lucky and revisit your favorite content as much as you’d like by visiting your friend’s profile. When a story is created, the account owner has the option of saving the story as a Highlight.
The story will remain on their profile until the user deletes it. It’s a permanent option for displaying the best content. To check if your favorite stories were saved as a highlight do this:
- Tap on the magnifying glass icon or tap on the following option from your profile to locate the account you’re interested in.
- Locate the story under the Following and Message icon – these highlights are round icons with an image
- Tap on the story
That’s all there is to it. If you don’t see any stories here they either weren’t saved as a highlight, you’re not an approved follower, or their account is set to private.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I watch a Story more than once?
Absolutely! As long as it’s within the 24-hour period you can watch the Story as many times as you’d like. Instagram does tell the creator that you watched their content, but it doesn’t tell them how many times you watched. Just beware, if you watch their Story over and over again, they’ll see the view count increase and you may be the only person who’s seen it. This is a sure-fire sign that you’ve been watching their Story, a lot.
Can I re-publish and old Instagram Story?
Yes.
1. If you have a favorite Story, you can re-post it by navigating to your Archive folder as described above, then tap on the Story you’d like to re-post.
2. In the lower left-hand corner tap on the three vertical dots to access the sub-menu.
3. Then, tap on Repost.
4. Follow the prompts and your Story will live on in the feeds of others for another 24 hours.
5. If you’d like to re-post another person’s Story you can do that too. All you need to do is tap on the paper airplane icon and share.
If you don’t see the option, it’s probably because the other user has a private account. A private account means you can’t share their content for anyone else to see.
Final Thoughts
That pretty much sums up the resources you have when it comes to viewing and saving Instagram Stories.
Your own stories are archived for future use, but the Stories posted by other people are a little trickier. You can’t really see them once they expire, but you can save them while they’re active. Use a website made for saving IG Stories or a screen recorder on your mobile device.
How often do you feel like saving a Story you see on Instagram? If you could easily view old Stories at will, do you think it would defeat the purpose of Stories altogether? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
Archive on Instagram: where did it go, how to view the archive of stories and photos
After the next Instagram update, some users lost the archive from the settings. If this is the first time you hear about the archive, a small note is a place where you can transfer posts, stories and live broadcasts so that they are visible only to you.
This article will tell you how to find an archive and how to restore a publication from an archive.
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The archive is located in the profile menu. Click on the 3 horizontal lines, the menu opens. Between the settings and statistics there should be an item "Archive".
If not present, solutions:
1. Update the application. Usually this is enough for the "Archive" item to return to the menu.
2. For some users, the archive has moved to the "Your activity" item.
Open the profile menu, go to the activity, scroll down - there should be an item "Archive". It can also be displayed simultaneously in the profile menu and in the "Your activity" menu. nine0003
3. If none of the methods helped, we make it easier. We go to the profile menu, then to "Settings". In the search bar, write the word "Archive".
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How to return a post or story from the archive
There are 3 types of archive in the Archive section. By default, archived stories are displayed. If you click on the checkbox, all views will be displayed.
How to return stories. nine0012 Stories cannot be returned from the archive, because stories are only stored for 24 hours. To keep them longer and be visible to other users, they can be placed in the actual. But a story from the archive can be shared with contacts in Direct, and it can also be posted as a new story memory.
To share a story, find it in the archive, open it, then click "More" to bring up the menu. To send to Direct, click "Send" and select a contact.
To place it as a story-memories, select the “Share” item in the menu. Instagram automatically puts down the date of the memory, that is, when the story was posted for the first time. nine0003
How to return a post from the archive. Open the archive of publications, click on the post. Then 3 dots in the upper right corner, select "Show in profile" in the menu.
*You may find that the post never appeared in the profile, although it disappeared from the archive. What to do in this case is to exit Instagram, remove it from the background (that is, close it completely). Then re-enter the application. The post will appear on the account page.
Live recording can be downloaded from the archive to the device or uploaded to the profile.
Conclusion
The temporary disappearance of the archive on Instagram from the menu is due to the update of the application and the fact that for some users this item has moved to another section (Your Activity).
Perhaps the social network is testing where it is better to place the archive. Please note that this item may appear differently for users of iOS and Android devices.
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9000.S. Archive of the History of Instagram and how to look at your old stories Stories are publications that have a limited broadcast period of only 24 hours in the feed, after which they are not deleted, but sent to the Instagram stories archive.
In the article we will tell you how the service works, where to find and how to view the archive. nine0003
What is the archive of stories on Instagram, and where is it located?
The archive stores all the stories you published from the moment you registered on the social network. This important feature will prevent you from losing colorful content that is very dear to you. It will be very unpleasant if a high-quality and beautiful photo or video is deleted forever. nine0003
Keep in mind that the vault will contain only those publications that have been in the main feed for more than 24 hours. If you erased the content before the end of this period, then the history will not be saved.
Where is the archive list? Backup files can be found at any time, they are in the public domain, but only for the owner of the page in the service.
Unauthorized persons will not be able to view stories. To go to the archive you will need:
- Launch the mobile app on your device.
- Enter your login and password, log in to your account.
- Go to the personal page, to do this, click the icon in the form of a person on the bottom panel of the workspace.
- Find the button in the upper corner in the form of three parallel lines and click on it.
- A pop-up window will appear on the screen, in which you need to click on the icon in the form of a clock face with the corresponding caption. nine0081 This will take you to the archive directory where all your publications are stored.
Please note that on different operating systems and smartphones, the location of the main elements may differ.
How to create an archive
Each story after the end of 24 hours and the end of the broadcast in the feed will be automatically saved to the storage.
As for all other publications, photos and videos that are not placed in the story feed, you will have to add them to storage yourself.
After all, the automatic archiving function only applies to short recordings. Let's take a quick look at how to add history to the archive list:
- Log in to your account with your username and password. After that, you will find yourself in the main menu of the service with a news feed.
- Go to the personal page where your posts are posted.
- Select the desired photo or video.
- On the top panel, click on the button in the form of an ellipsis.
- In the new menu, click on the archiving item.
- The procedure will take only a few seconds, after which the record will be in the storage. nine0149
- Log in to the social network.
- Go to the personal page.
- On the top panel you will see an indicator in the form of a dial for switching to archived lists.
- To add an image or video, select and open the desired content.
- Press the ellipsis button and the archiving item.
- Done.
- Go to your social network page.
- Locate the button in the form of three lines. nine0082
- Open the archive section.
- A list of all saved histories will be displayed on the screen. Select the one you don't want and click on it.
- In the new window, find the ellipsis button.
- Select the option to delete the publication.
- Go to your social network page.
- Click on the button in the form of three parallel lines on the top bar of the workspace.
- Locate the settings section, displayed as a gear. nine0081 Click on the privacy tab.
- Open the stories item.
- At the very bottom, set the checkbox for saving data to archive to the active position.
- Save changes.
- The smartphone has outdated software, update the operating system.
- The phone uses an outdated version of the Instagram utility. To solve the problem, install the latest build of the program or re-download it and run it.
- There may be Instagram bugs and freezes, please try again in a few minutes.
- An old phone that does not support the latest update. Try logging into your account from a different, more modern device.
A similar algorithm must be performed with each publication that you want to save.
If you want to archive material on Instagram through a computer, you will have to face a number of difficulties. In the web version of the social network, there is no such function and it is impossible to access the vault. The official application for Windows solves the problem, starting from version 8 of the operating system, but in this case, only publications are displayed in the archive, but no stories.
To add stories to the archive from a PC, you need:
Note. To have access to all the functionality on a PC, you can use the mobile version of Instagram by downloading an Android emulator or installing additional browser extensions. nine0003
How to delete archived stories
In the archive, you can set up the desired publication at any time, edit it and re-place it in the news feed. In this case, the entry will be displayed with a memory mark, which can be erased using standard social network tools. If you decide to delete Instagram stories from storage, then follow these steps:
The procedure is the same for the PC application. Thus, you can erase from the archive not only stories from the tape, but also all saved photos and videos. It should be remembered that after this it will no longer be possible to restore the content, so think carefully before proceeding with actions. nine0003
Set up automatic archiving
It's important to remember that your mobile device and app might not have the auto-save feature set to vault. In this case, you need to activate it:
After that, all your stories will be sent to the store by default.
There is no archive icon, what to do
If the archive section could not be found in the mobile application, and the corresponding icon is simply missing, then there are several reasons for such a failure:
