Instagram highlights are those story-like posts that you place under your social network bio.They are usually used to show important elements about your account, such as visits to places, addresses of your business, best-selling products, achievements, etc.
Initially to place the highlighted stories on Instagram you had to upload it as a story first, but With a trick you can do it without publishing it in this sectionTo do this you must follow a series of steps that we will show you below.
How to post highlights on Instagram without uploading them?
When you want to highlight a story on Instagram, but you don't want to upload it to Stories itself, you need to do a trick. Everything is native to the social network, which does not force you to install third-party applications. It is practically an internal routine and we are going to explain step by step how to achieve it:
- Enter the Instagram application.
- Enter as if you were going to create a story on the social network, this is done by touching the profile photo with the plus symbol "+" located in the upper left corner of the screen.
- Select a photo from the gallery or create one from your mobile camera, the We edit to taste.
- AWe publish it now, but we delete it immediately so that no one can see it. This is so that the story is generated and we can place it as a highlight on Instagram.
- You have to wait 24 hours for the story to expire.
- Once this time has passed, we go to our account profile and to do so, touch the photo located in the lower right corner of the screen.
- We enter the profile settings by pressing the three lines located in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Select the option «activity» and then we go into «recently deleted«·.
- We tap on the story that was deleted the day before and retouch the three points about the post.
- Presiona in "restore» and we confirm the action.
- Now go back to your profile and go to your featured stories to add one.
- Select the newly restored story and you're done.
With these simple, yet extensive steps, you can post a story highlight on Instagram without actually uploading it. You can also create a Story inviting followers to go to your story highlights to see content that hasn't been posted elsewhere. Share this information so more people know how to do it.