With the rapid adoption of mobile internet access, coupled with an average human concentration extent that is decreasing just as quickly, PR professionals and marketers are finding out that visual content is essential if you want to make an impact on your audience.
Instagram lets you add stories Highlights yo your profile which is a collection of the stories you have uploaded in the past on Instagram. This feature allows your Instagram profile to look more attractive because it provides people for another insight into what you have in mind.
If you want to add a story from your gallery or camera roll directly to your Highlights, this wouldn’t be possible because Instagram only allows you to share a highlight based on what you’ve uploaded on Instagram stories and left for a full 24 hours. If you didn’t leave your story for 24 hours, you wouldn’t be able to add it to your Instagram Highlight.
If you are using a smartphone to publish on Instagram, and you are going to add galley photos to the highlights of Instagram, it is possible. However, if you don’t want others to see your stories, but they see your highlights, you should know that you cannot add to highlights without adding to stories. Even if you set the privacy for close friends (at least one account), and then you add those to stories. No one would be able to watch it unless those you have already selected when sharing to stories.
So, to show the highlights to all, you should publish to stories for all first then add it to highlights. Though, before adding to highlights, you should note some points.
So, to add from camera roll to the story follow the instruction below:
adding to Instagram highlights is easy, but you should know that you have to add the photo or video to stories first. Everyone sees the stories can watch that highlight too.
To add highlights on Instagram:
It would help if you blocked your followers from seeing your story, upload the story that you want to add to your Instagram Highlights. After 24 hours, you can add it to your Highlights and unblock people from seeing your story.
1- Switch to private account
The first thing you can try is switching your account to private – doing this will stop users from viewing your story if they aren’t from your followers. If your account is public before uploading your story, people who are not don’t follow you will also be able to see the story that you blocked your followers from seeing.
2- Block Everyone from Seeing your Story
To stop everyone from seeing your story:
Go to your Instagram settings
Click on story controls
Click on 0 people
Now you need to select all of your followers to stop them from seeing your story.
Note! This may take a while depending on how many followers you have.
3- Upload your story
After blocking everyone from seeing your story, upload the story from your gallery and leave it for 4 hours. Or you can do this while your story is live, and they would not be able to see the story.
4- add your story to highlights
After uploading your story on Instagram, tap on the highlight button at the bottom and choose the highlight you want it in.
5– unblock people from seeing your story
After adding the story to your highlights and waiting for 24 hours, you should start unblocking people whom you blocked on Instagram story control and voila!
Conclusion
you can send the content from the gallery to stories, but to make them as highlights, you should open the instagram app. don’t forget that who can see the story would see that highlights too.
As I’m sure you are aware, Instagram recently followed in snapchats footsteps by implementing a story feature. This feature essentially allows you to share multiple pictures or videos to your Followers or fans, which will ‘disappear’ after 24 hours. Most of the population were unsure on how to react towards the introduction of Instagram stories, with some users being excited to test it out and others showing signs of dissapointment in the blatant mimic. In this article, we will be sharing a few useful pieces of information surrounding the latest Instagram feature.
If you are already in the ‘dog house’ go scroll down to find some actions you can try to speed up the process of reinstating your account.
Welcome to the new Instagram! This born-again Instagram is a total paranoid, over protective and has a zero tolerance … to spammers … or anything that ‘looks and acts‘ like spammer.
Don’t get me wrong, the intention is good, in general. It is designed to get rid off fake accounts and spammers that had riddled the service for so long.
If you’re an Instagram user, you may have received notifications that someone you follow has gone “Live.” If you haven’t, hang tight — Instagram announced earlier this week that its new live video feature had begun rolling out on Monday, and will become available to all users globally in the next few weeks. But if you are already familiar with the new feature and even using it yourself, then you may have a few questions about who’s viewing your live broadcast videos. For example, you may be wondering: Can you limit who sees your Instagram Live video? You may not want everybody all up in your business, and that’s totally fair.
There are a few essential points about the post you are sharing on Instagram and making money from them. Selling on Instagram is more depends on how to get more followers, or how you can help them to make their purchase decision. People purchase something when they think it is attractive, functional, etc. you should intrigue this feeling in users, to turn your likes into sales.
Encourage users to engage in the posts. For example, you can run a contest every month for those who have participated in the posts. This would keep them more in your profile and content. This can lead to buy a product.
