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.
Instagram stories are great for sharing your contents with your friends and followers. But some people instead of just enjoying other people’s stories, they take screenshots for the brief time it’s available. If you want to know who has screenshotted your Instagram story, then go through this article.
Can you see who has taking screenshot of your Instagram story?
- If you are really worried about people who was taking screenshot of your stories, then the best thing you can do is to set your account to private. So that the people you have approved can see your stuff.
- Alternatively, you can also ‘Hide Story From’ from certain people, those who don’t want to see your Instagram story. In that way, you will control over those people and hide your content.
- Since there’s no foolproof techniques to view who took screenshots of your Instagram story. In this article you are going to know two methods to give you a general idea of who might have saved your story.
1st Method: Check Who Has Viewed Your Story
While this may not be a definitive way to tell if someone has taking screenshot of your story, but this is a decent place to start.
- To check who has viewed your story first you have to open your Instagram app.
- After that tap on your story thumbnail to open your Instagram story.
- Swipe up, and you will be able to see a list of all the people in order those who has viewed your story.
- Instagram stories only lasts for 24 hours, but still you can check the viewer’s list after 24 hours on Archive section.
How to do it
- Open your Instagram app and in the bottom right corner you will see your profile icon, tap on that.
- In profile at the top right corner you will see the three dot menu tap on that, open it and select the option ‘Archive‘.
- In Archive section your archived stories will shows up. Find the particular story that you want to check and tap on it.
- Open the story, swipe up, and you will see the list of all the people who have viewed it.
2nd Method: You Can Limit People to View Your Story
If you post any story on Instagram, that is something sensitive and you just don’t want all the people to see your story, then to ensure only certain people to see your story, you can limit who views it.
Limit certain people to view your Instagram story won’t stop someone from taking screenshot of your story if they really want to, but at least you will have a better idea of who took screenshots if it happens.
- To hide your Instagram stories from certain people, open your Instagram app and in the bottom right corner you will see your profile icon, tap on that.
- In profile at the top right corner you will see the three dot menu tap on that, open it and select the option ‘Settings and privacy‘.
- In Settings and privacy, scroll down and select the option Hide story and live.
- Next to ‘Hide story and live from’ you will see the number, tap on that.
- From here select the people those you want to hide your story from and then tap on the done button. After that those people will no longer be able to see your stories.
Conclusion
- Taking screenshot on Instagram is actually not against the rules and most of the time, people are taking screenshot just out of curiousity and they don’t mean any harm.
- But, if you are concerned about people saving your stories, then limit certain people to view it is your best bet or you can set your account to private.
- Just one thing keep in your mind that taking screenshot is thr part of internet culture, so there is nothing much you can do to stop it from happening.
