Instagram is one of the most popular social networks between users on Android. It is an app known for having a multitude of functions, in addition to adding new functions on a regular basis. A function that has been available in it for some time is that of best friends, which surely sounds familiar to many of you. Here we tell you all about these best friends on Instagram.
you will be able to know what are these best friends on Instagram and what is it for this function in the social network. In addition, we are also going to show you the way in which it can be used in the Android application. Since it will surely interest many of you with an account on the social network.
This feature has been gaining popularity since it was released for users on all versions of Instagram. You may have read something about it on occasion or you may be interested in using it. Therefore, we will tell you more about it below.
What are best friends on Instagram
This function came to the social network in November 2018, first to a small group of users and little by little it was extended to all users on Android and iOS. Instagram best friends is a list of users with whom you want to share your stories apart. As you know, the social network makes the stories we upload are shared with all the users who follow us or with the whole world, if we have a public account. This is the default in the app, but this function allows us to change it.
The list of best friends allows choose specific people you want to share with the stories you upload to your account on the social network. The idea behind the feature is that there are some stories on the social network that we're better off only sharing with certain people. It can be those people you trust or really close to you, or that there are people you don't want to be able to see something. This function therefore allows you to create this list, where you will be able to add those people you trust the most and that you want to be able to see these stories that you upload to your account on the social network.
This best friends feature applies only to Instagram stories. For now it is not something that applies to the conventional posts that you upload in your account. When uploading a story on the social network you will be able to choose who you want to see it. So it can be the whole world or that you upload a story that only your best friends on the social network will be able to see. This is something that each user can choose when uploading a story.
Nno one will be able to see who is on this list of best friendsexcept yourself. You are the one who creates this list and only you can see who is on it. Nobody will know that it is in it, unless you have said or mentioned it. In addition, it is a list that can be edited at any time, so you will be able to delete or add people to your liking whenever you want. When someone is removed or added to this list, they won't know it. Instagram does not issue notifications related to this feature, so there is nothing to worry about in this regard. This is something very private and the social network keeps it that way.
How to set up best friends
Now that we know what these best friends on Instagram are, it's time to set up this feature. All users with an account on the social network can create this list and decide which people They are the ones who will be part of it. We can choose all the people we want in this sense. Also, if at any time we want to remove someone from said list, it will be possible, as well as add new people to it.
The process of configuring this list is something really simple, which we will be able to do in the app on Android or iOS without any problem. The feature has been available on Instagram for almost four years now, so anyone who has the app installed on their phone will be able to use this feature. The steps are indicated below.
Steps to follow
The first thing to do is open the Instagram app on your phone or tablet. Then click on our profile picture at the bottom of the screen, and our profile opens. Then we are going to click on the three horizontal lines that appear in the upper right part of the screen. In the menu that now appears on the screen there are several options, including one called Best friends. Then click on this option.
We are taken to a new screen, where you can see a list of people who follow us on the social network. This is in the Suggestions tab. Next to each person we have a button on the right side, on which we can click if we want this person to be added to our list of best friends on Instagram. Therefore, all we have to do is choose the people we want to have on that list. Once we have chosen all of them, click on the Done button located at the bottom.
the next time Go to the Best Friends tab on Instagram You will see that two tabs now appear on the screen. On the one hand, the list of these people that you have chosen before, and on the other, the list of suggestions. In this second tab we get those names of people that we can add if we want to the list of best friends. If there are new people that we want to add to it, we will find them in this tab then.
Remove people
If at any time you want to delete someone of this list of best friends, this is not going to be complicated. You will only have to open this section again within the social network, and there you will then see the list of these people who are part of your best friends. You will only have to search for that person you want to remove in this list.
As it happens when we have created the list, next to the person is a circle or button, located on the right side. Since this person is part of the list of best friends, the button is blue, with a tick symbol. To remove this person from our best friends, we just click on this button, so that the circle remains empty. So this person is no longer in these best friends of the social network. If there are more people you are going to remove from this list on your Instagram account, you will just have to repeat the process with them as well. The social network does not issue any notification when you have eliminated these people, nor did they receive any notification when you added them to this list of best friends.
upload stories
The list of best friends on Instagram it's something you've created because you want to upload stories to your account that only a few people can see. When it comes time to upload a story to your account in the app, you are given the ability to choose who you want to be able to see that story. So there will be times when this list of best friends will be the one who can see it and in others that all your followers will have access.
You're going to create a story the same way you always do, whether it's recording a video or uploading a photo or video. The edition does not present changes in this sense either, with the same options available at all times. The thing to keep in mind is who this story will be visible to, which is at the bottom of the screen. Here you will be able to be able to see that you get an option of Best friends, so if you want only them to see it, you just have to click on Best friends then. Only they will be able to see this story.
The best friends will not know that this story is only for themunless you have said so. When they open the Instagram app on their phone, they will see that there is a story of yours available to view. Although this is not shown in a different way than a normal story, so they will not know that there are differences. They will be able to see and react normally to said story, since there is no message or warning that indicates that they are part of your best friends on the social network. If you remove them from it, they will no longer be able to see these exclusive stories.