Instagram is one of the most popular social networking site. Instagram never stops to surprise us. In this covid situation whole world is trying to stay resilient through these tough economic times. But the Instagram is rapidly developing its new features to tackle the business issue, help users to promote their business, make more money, entertain us and help to stay connected to the world.
To share your content on Instagram with other users, Instagram Stories are the best options. Through Instagram stories you can increase your followers and grow your user base.
With the Instagram Stories feature businesses can share engaging content with their audience that lasts 24 hours. For Promoting limited-time offers, showcasing behind-the-scenes content or conducting live interactions, this is an excellent tool. Through Instagram stories you can endorse your posts, blogs, post relevant industry and more.
But not every content you have posted in your story is appropriate for everyone. Some people might want to share their content with some specific people, but not with others. In this case, Instagram gives their users an option to hide their stories from some people in order to enhance the user experience and also to increase the user comfort. If you also want to hide your Instagram stories from someone, then go through this article and know how you can do it.
How to Hide Instagram Stories From Someone?
In three ways you can hide your story from others.
- Hide Story From Profile
- Hide Story By Sharing the Story With Close Friends
- Hide Story From Settings
1. Hide Story From Profile
- To hide your Instagram story from someone , you can go the that user’s profile, from whom you want to hide your story.
- In top right corner of the profile you will see the three vertical dots, tap on that and a menu will appear.
- From menu select the option “Hide Your Story”.
- When you click on the option “Hide Your Story”
instagram will prompt you to confirm your desire to hide the story. - You can tap on “hide.” A confirmation message will appear on your screen, stating that the person will no longer view your story.
2. Hide Story By Sharing the Story With Close Friends
- If you only want to share your Instagram story with a select group of users, then this option will really works for you. You can include that selected group of people in your close friends list, so that you can post your stories only with them.
- To include someone in close friend list, go to the profile area of that person, tapping on, and then select close friends. Add the individual you want to share your content.After that create a story and in the bottom-right corner, see the “close friends”option, tap on that and publish your story.
3. Hide Story From Settings
- To hide someone to see your Story, first open your Instagram app and then select the profile icon.
- In profile, top right corner you will see the three horizontal bar menu icon, click on that.
- From menu select the “option settings and privacy” open it. Here you will see the option “hide the story and live” click on that.
- When you open the hide the story and live option a list of profiles will appear. You can either select the profile from the list or find someone through search bar above.
- You just have to select the profile and your Stories won’t be visible to them anymore.
