How to save instagram story pictures
How to Download and Save Instagram Stories
Instagram stories disappear after 24 hours.
And if you do not save them or archive them, you will end up losing all the hard work you’ve put into creating your beautiful Instagram story.
To avoid this, and make sure you never lose an Instagram story, here are a few methods that you can use in order to save your Instagram stories.
Here are the 5 methods on how to save and download Instagram stories:
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- 1. Save stories in a web-based app
- 2. Archive stories in your Instagram app
- 3. How to download Instagram stories on iPhone
- 4. Save stories in ‘Highlights’
- 5. Share and save story as a post
- Save other peoples’ Instagram stories
- Bonus: How to download Instagram videos
- FAQs on saving Instagram stories
Let’s break down each of these methods and how to use story downloader tools in practice:
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If you want to make sure your Instagram stories are saved in a web-based app and reachable anytime, we suggest you try EmbedStories.
It is a professional tool for Instagram stories that can automatically download and save your Instagram stories.
Here are the benefits that EmbedStories provide:
- Save all elements of the Instagram story, such as photos and videos
- Create a gallery from multiple Instagram photo stories
- Embed and display your Instagram stories on any website
- Create different web widgets and story sliders that have a specific embeddable code and can be showcased on different websites
- Archive and save IG stories from multiple Instagram accounts that you manage
And here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to use EmbedStories as your Instagram Story downloader and archive all your Instagram stories in a web-based app:
- Log in to EmbedStories or create an account
- Connect your Facebook account
- Allow the system to get your Instagram accounts
- Click ‘Select source‘ next to the account from where you want the system to fetch the Instagram stories
That’s it.
Once you finish the steps, the active story from the selected Instagram account will show in the ‘My stories‘ section.
The best, you will be able to embed them in amazing slider, popover, or grid widgets directly on your website.
And every time you post stories, EmbedStories will fetch them and save them in your account, automatically syncing the widgets displayed on your website.
Using EmbedStories is perfect for agencies or people who manage multiple Instagram accounts.
It will save you tons of time and money to capture all the stories you post, analyze, and possibly use in the future again.
Additionally, it allows you to create and embed a photo stories widget with any photo that fits the story format or a video stories widget with any vertical videos you take on your phone.
Using Instagram story tools can help marketers get their Instagram marketing game to the next level.
2. Archive stories in your Instagram app
This is a great option provided as a setting in your Instagram app.
It allows you to activate an Archive option that automatically saves all stories you publish on Instagram.
To activate this option, follows the steps below:
- Open your Instagram account and click on the ‘Settings icon.‘
- Click on ‘Archive’
- In the ‘Saving’ section, activate the options ‘Save Story to Archive‘ (Android) or ‘Save to Camera Roll‘ (iOS)
That’s it. Now every time you post an Instagram story, it will be saved in the Archive section, from where you can easily download stories into your phone library.
To access this section and view the saved stories, follow the steps below:
- Open your Instagram account and click ‘Settings’,
- Click on ‘Archive’,
- The Archive screen will pop up, where you will find all stories categorized by date.
Now your Instagram stories are saved forever in your Instagram account.
One of the greatest benefits of saving Instagram stories in Archive is the future possibility to repost or re-use these stories to create Instagram Stories Highlights.
3. How to download Instagram stories on iPhone
If you do not want to save every story to your Camera Roll, you can choose to save a particular story manually.
To do this, follow the steps below:
- View your active story
- Click on the 3 dots at the bottom of the story and tap ‘Save.’
- Select ‘Save Photo/Video’ to save the individual photo or video stories, or
- select ‘Save Story’ to save everything from your story as a single video
This simple method requires you to download each story once they are published manually.
The format of the story that you will download is a vertical video.
4. Save stories in ‘Highlights’
This is a recent upgrade to Instagram stories, and it allows users to create Highlight sections on their Instagram profile from the stories after they’ve disappeared.
The sections can be viewed by others and work similarly to Pinterest boards.
The idea behind Instagram Stories Highlights is to create themed highlights where you can save and publicly store stories or posts that you think are worth the attention.
The benefits of having highlights for businesses are the following:
- Easy access to categorized posts and stories
- Highlight specific products or collections
- Highlight customer testimonials
- Add Highlight with the FAQ section about your business
And lots of more applications that you can try and use on your Instagram profile.
Here is how to save an Instagram story in Highlights:
- Open the active story or go to your Archive and click on the saved stories
- Click on the Highlight icon at the bottom of the story screen
- Choose a Highlight category or just ‘Add new‘
That’s it.
Now your story will appear in the Highlight right below your details in your Instagram profile page.
You can also create a Highlight of the archived stories by simply following these steps:
- Go to your profile and tap the + icon in Stories Highlights below your profile details
- Tap to select the story or stories you want to add to highlights, then tap Next
- Choose a cover photo and enter a story name for your highlight, then tap Add
You can add more photos or videos to your highlight at any time by tapping Edit Highlight.
How to save entire Highlight in one video
This is one of the most required options already available in the native Instagram app.
To save the entire Highlight with a single click, follow the steps below:
- Go to your profile and click on a Highlight
- Click on the people photos in the bottom left corner or just swipe up
- Click on the top bar download icon (as shown below)
The entire Highlight will be converted into one video and saved in your phone Camera Roll.
That’s it.
How to embed Instagram Stories Highlights on your website
As mentioned above, the EmbedStories platform can easily help you organize your generated Instagram stories in groups similar to Instagram Highlights (no need to download the Instagram highlights).
This unique feature will provide you with a code to embed these Highlights on your website.
This is how the widget will look like in action:
If you think this feature will level up your Instagram marketing strategy, check out our step-by-step guide on how to embed Instagram Stories Highlights on any website.
5. Share and save story as a post
With this option, you can share IG stories on your Instagram feed and basically save them in your account.
To do this and share an Instagram story as a post, follow the steps:
- View your active story
- Click on the 3 dots at the bottom of the story and tap “Save”
- Select Share as Post
That’s it, the story photo or video will appear in your Instagram feed and can be seen in the feeds of your followers like any other Instagram post.
Save other peoples’ Instagram stories
Please note that there is no official Instagram API option to save other people’s Instagram stories. But, if for any reason you want to save someone’s Instagram story then you might try these methods.
Instagram story saver
Look for mobile apps in your Google Play Store or Apple App Store for an Instagram story saver app that can fetch your friends’ Instagram stories.
Usually, story downloaders request users to enter their Instagram username and click on the download button in order to save a story.
Make a screenshot of an Instagram story (Not recommended)
You can always take a screenshot and save a photo of the story but this is just a caption of the story format and it will not work if you want to save videos. Unless you use a video capture app.
Also, you might ask does Instagram notify screenshots of stories?
Yes! If you make a screenshot of stories posted by other people, Instagram will notify them that you’ve made a screenshot.
Bonus: How to download Instagram videos
There are few Instagram video downloader tools, and in this post, we will show you how to download Instagram videos with StorySaver.
It is one of the easiest ways to download Instagram videos on your smartphone and PC via a browser and reuse them as Instagram stories and Instagram Highlights.
Download Instagram videos on iPhone- Open Safari and go to StorySaver to download Instagram videos;
- Go to Instagram and choose a public video and tap on the “three dots” in the top right corner to copy the video URL;
- Go back to Safari to Storysaver.net and enter the Instagram video URL in the search box, and hit Download;
- Scroll down to see the video and hit “Save as video”;
- Safari will ask if you want to download the video and press “Download”;
- On your iPhone go to “Files> Downloads” and click on the video;
- Tap on the bottom left corner icon and choose “Save Video,” and the video will appear in your “Photos” app.
- Open Google Chrome and go to StorySaver
- Go to Instagram and choose a public video and tap on the “three dots” in the top right corner to copy the video URL;
- Go back to Chrome to Storysaver.net and enter the Instagram video URL in the search box, and hit Download;
- Scroll down to see the video and hit “Save as video”;
- The Instagram video will save in your “Gallery app > Downloads”.
Download Instagram videos on PC
- Open Google Chrome and go to StorySaver;
- Go to Instagram and choose a public video, and tap on the “three dots” in the top right corner to copy the video URL;
- Go back to Chrome to Storysaver.net and enter the Instagram video URL in the search box, and hit “Download”;
- Scroll down to see the video and hit “Save as video”;
- The Instagram video will save in your “Downloads” folder.
NOTE: Before downloading Instagram videos, you must ensure two things: take creators’ permission to download and ensure that you can download videos from public accounts.
Hope this guide helps you do more with Instagram stories and Instagram videos.
FAQs on saving Instagram stories
How to save Instagram stories on iPhone?
It’s actually really easy to save Instagram stories on your iPhone. Just follow these simple steps:
1. Download an IG story downloader app from the App Store. There are plenty of them to choose from, so just pick one that you like.
2. Open the app and log in with your Instagram credentials – username and password
3. Find the story you want to save, and tap on the “Download” button
4. The story will be saved to your camera roll!
That’s all there is to it. Saving Instagram stories is easy and quick with an IG story downloader app. So go ahead and download one now so you can start saving all your favorite Instagram stories.
How do you save videos from Instagram stories?
To save your own videos from your Stories, just tap on the Top right three-dot icon and tap Save so the stories download in your iPhone’s camera roll.
It works the same as with the photos.
Can you save old Instagram stories?
There is an option in Archive that you can activate and have all your stories continuously archived in your account. To activate this option, tap on the top menu icon in your profile and tap Archive. In the Archive, tap the top right three dots and tap on Settings. Then find the option Save story to archive and activate it. Now all your stories will automatically save in your archive so you dont have to save them to your phone.
How do you save other people’s Instagram stories to your phone?
To save other people’s stories, you can use a third-party app like Toolzu. To use this app, just go to their website, enter the username of the person from where you want to download stories, and click Download. Please wait for up to 30 seconds so their system can generate their latest live stories.
How do I download Instagram story on a computer?
Unfortunately, you can’t download Instagram stories on a computer directly from your Instagram app. But you can use an IG story downloader app that will allow you to save the story to your computer.
Here’s how:
1. Google search for an ‘IG story downloader’ on your computer
2. You can find an Insta stories saver app like StorySaver and go to their website
3. Type the Instagram username
4. Find the story you want to save, and tap on “Download”.
That’s it.
Please note: you can only download the current, public Instagram stories.
How to Download and Save Instagram Stories
- You can download an active Instagram Story shared by your own profile in a few ways.
- To download your own Instagram story, you can save it to your phone, highlights, or archive.
- Downloading your story on a computer, or downloading someone else's story, requires third-party apps.
Instagram's popularity allows you to take a peek into countless people's lives, unique hobbies, and global trends. One Instagram feature that is fun and easy to manage is called Stories. Instagram Stories are photos and videos that are posted to your profile and last for 24 hours.
Since there's a time limit on how long a story is visible to everyone, you have several options to save your own Instagram Story to your app or phone. There are also a few methods you could use to download or save someone else's story.
Quick tip: Check out our complete Instagram guide.
How to download your Instagram Story
There are several ways to save your own stories:
Manually save your story in the Instagram app
1. Open and log into Instagram.
2. Tap your profile picture, located in the top-left corner, to view posts you've added to your story.
Tap your profile picture to view your active Stories.
Devon Delfino/Insider 3. Choose the story you'd like to save and tap the three dots at the bottom right and tap Save… (iPhone) or Save Photo/Video (Android).
Tap Save… Devon Delfino/Insider4. On an iPhone, select Save Photo/Video to save that specific story. To save all your current stories as one vertical video, tap Save Story.
Android users have to save each story individually.
Quick tip: If you want to download your Story from a computer, you'll need to use a third-party app. Directions for that are detailed in the section for downloading other people's stories.
Highlight your Story
You can also add Instagram Stories to your Highlights to save them.
1. Tap your profile picture, located in the top-left corner of the main screen on the Instagram app.
2. When your desired Story appears, tap Highlight, located toward the bottom-right corner of the screen.
3. Tap the desired highlight collection to save your Story to.
Tap the highlight collection, or create a new one. Devon Delfino/InsiderOnce saved, you can go to your profile, and see the Story by tapping the highlight collection you saved the Story to (located just below your profile information).
Save the story to your phone or archive
This method involves saving your Instagram Story automatically to an archive in the app or to your phone's memory.
1. On Instagram, go to your profile and tap the three-line Menu icon in the top-right corner.
Tap the three-line menu icon. Devon Delfino/Insider2. Tap Settings, then Privacy.
Tap Settings. Devon Delfino/Insider3.
Tap Story. Underneath the Saving heading, you can toggle on Save Story to Camera Roll (iPhone) or Save Story to Gallery (Android) to save stories to your device's photo app.
4. You can also solely toggle on Save Story to Archive to save photos and videos to your archive and not to your phone.
Save your Story as an Instagram post
Another option to prevent your Story from disappearing after 24 hours is to convert it into a post:
1. Open your desired Story in the Stories feature.
2. Tap the three dots, located at the bottom of the screen.
3. Choose Share as post.
Tap Share as post. Devon Delfino/InsiderHow to download someone else's Instagram Story
Perhaps the simplest way to save someone else's Instagram Story is to record or screenshot it on a mobile device, neither of which will notify the Instagram user.
Follow our guides on how to screen record on iPhone or Android, or how to screenshot on iPhone or Android devices like Google Pixel, and use those methods to capture a photo or video from any profile's story while viewing it.
There's also the option of using a third-party website like Toolzu, which can allow you to save your Instagram Story or someone else's, as long as their account isn't a private account.
- Go to Toolzu's Instagram Story downloader in a desktop web browser.
- Type in the username of the account whose story you're looking to download from, with the @ symbol included it (e.g. @user_name).
3. Select the individual story you need and click Download.
Quick tip: A few other third-party sites or apps you may want to use include Story Reposter (iPhone only), Story Saver, and StoriesIG.
How to download IG videos on iPhone, Android, Mac, or PC
Screen recording is one way to download IG videos (as well as Stories) onto your device.
But there are also third-party options to get the job done:
- iPhone: Reposter for Instagram
- Android: Repost for IG
- Mac/PC: Ace Thinker
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Ennica Jacob is a multimedia producer and video journalist. In Summer 2019, she interned at the New York Daily News, where she penned two front page stories and covered daily breaking news from court proceedings to social events. In January 2020, she completed a semester in Paris, with an independent study project at CELSA - Université Paris-Sorbonne, a short documentary focused on the evolution of Hip-Hop, and an internship at Society Magazine. She's been freelancing with Insider since December 2020 and is currently a fellow with the Video Reference team.
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How to save history on a social network
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July 1, 2021 - Mimihack, Facts
Fans of one of the most popular social networks post millions of Stories every day.
This method is more convenient than the traditional placement of profile photos, covers a large audience, but has its drawbacks. The age of Stories is short - after 24 the publication is deleted. Meanwhile, in the terabytes of information uploaded to the "social network" there is useful content: live broadcast of a business coach, coach's recommendations, or memories that you want to return to after a day. We figure out how to save your own and other people's history in the "social network".
Saving your own story to the archive
In order to save your own Stories in the archive and have access to them at any time, follow the simple rules:
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Go to your profile in the "social network".
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Select "Privacy" from the "Settings" menu of your account.
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Find "History" and "Save" at the very end of the list.
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Check Save to Gallery or Save to Archive, or both.
Now Stories will be stored in the phone.
If you want your followers to see your favorite moments, select Stories in Recently Published or Archived and click the Highlight button when playback starts. Now Stories is saved in "Actual". The folder, which can be renamed, will be stored on the page below the profile description. Your followers will be able to refer to the "social network" story at any time.
Preserving another person's story
To download and save the story of another person from the "social network", you will have to use third-party programs for smartphones based on Android and iPhone, such as Story Saver. Follow the instructions below:
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Go to the App Store or Play Market and download the app that allows you to download Stories with photos and videos for free.
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Read the terms and conditions and, if they suit you, install the program.
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Log in to the application.
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Follow the program instructions.
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From the options: Repost, Save, Share, select Save.
You will find the photo or video file in your smartphone's gallery.
There are other free applications. For example, InstaStory, Story Down. The program also allows you to download Stories. It is anonymous, users will not know who downloaded the file.
You can also save stories from the "social network" on your computer. To do this, you need to install the extension for Google Chrome IG Story, designed to view and store information from the social network.
So, despite the fact that the social network does not allow you to download the history of another user, there are several ways to do this through the use of special programs.
In order to print successful photos from social networks or your phone's Gallery, use the Mimigram application. Sort your photos, edit them and order a photo album, art canvas, collage or other product of your choice.
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How to easily save Instagram stories with music
Now Instagram is one of the most famous social networks has about 1.200 million active users every day who share videos and photos with the rest of the world. And with the latest story updates, the social network has become even more famous than it was.
Backup is the way thousands of people try to save all the content that has been uploaded to Instagram. And the fact is that Instagram stories are increasingly used by users as it is a quick and easy way for them to share their photos on their profiles.
And today we bring you this article in which we explain how you can save instagram stories with music, because many times something goes wrong and the sound is lost when saving the video. However, this has a solution, and therefore several aspects must be taken into account when doing so.
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- 1 Can I download all Instagram stories with music?
- 2 How to save Instagram stories with music
- 3 How to download Instagram stories with music using Story Saver
Can I download all Instagram stories with music?
Now all stories can also be downloaded from a single application or from a web page, so no external tools are needed. although they can be found in the play store. The best thing you can do is list them all so you can easily find them.
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It is important to remember that if you save the story before publishing it, you will not be able to download the music and it will be mainly because the video will be disabled. Adding a song to stories will make browsing your stories more enjoyable for people, especially if you tend to download them often.
User you can decide if you want to add music and also decide whether to save history with or without music. From Instagram, you can upload your stories and thus organize them into folders in your gallery.
How to save an Instagram story with music
It should also be noted that currently you can only download stories with music from public profiles, so you won't be able to download them from private accounts. If you're interested in content that climbs up the page and has a private profile, you won't be able to save their stories.
We also remind you that downloading videos from other users and sharing them as your own is illegal, and this will mean that the company will permanently delete your account. This download that we will explain today is for personal use only, you can save the ones you want and view them whenever you need to.
Saving an Instagram story with music is very easy, just follow these steps:
- Log in to your phone browser or browser.
- Write the address instadp.com
- Click "Instagram Story Downloader".
- At the top of the search bar, enter the name of the desired user.
- In their profile, click on their "stories".
- Now you will see all your photos and videos
- At the bottom you will see a blue button with the word "Download", click on it.
- Then you only have to choose where you want to save it.
How to download Instagram stories with music using Story Saver
To save Instagram story with music on Android, the process is very simple, you only need a web service or app. Save History r is one of the best apps in the Play Store for this, a simple and useful option to download many stories.
Story Keeper It has a web page where you can download stories with music, and you have two ways to download stories in the same way. To do this, follow these steps:
- Enter your story and copy the desired link as if you were going to share it on another site.
- Copy the link in the box when loading the page.
- Wait for the video to load, download and choose where you want to save it.
- With Story Saver, the process is very similar, so it will be very easy for you to get used to how this tool works.
- is available for Android. Another app very similar to Story Saver that also downloads stories with music is Instore.
Here we will show you how to complete the process step by step:
- Download the app.
- Once installed, open the application.
- You can see that its interface is very simple, very similar to a web page.
- Copy the link of the story you want to download.
- Copy the full URL to a search engine.
- Now click on the "Download" button and choose where you want to save it.
Download stories from Save-Insta
Another page of website that also download Instagram stories with music is Save-Insta, the procedure is very similar to other applications we have seen.
