How to activate Instagram Highlight Stories on iPhone

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With Instagram you can do a lot when it comes to stories. With these you can activate the file to save them when the 24-hour period passes and to improve them filters have been incorporated. For things like these, there is no doubt that the section that Instagram takes care of the most is that of Stories.

Apart from saving old stories and putting filters on them, with Instagram it is possible to activate something called Featured Stories. Next, we are going to show you how featured stories are activated , what should be taken into account before publishing a featured story. Also, we will show you why sometimes this option is not displayed in the app.

How to activate featured INSTAGRAM STORIES on iPhone – Set up your account

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  1. What should you check before turning on Instagram highlights on an iPhone?
    1. Check if your App is up to date
  2. What is the way to activate this Instagram option on your iPhone?
    1. Uploading a featured story
    2. Within the Instagram options
  3. Why does this section still not appear on Instagram from an iOS device?

What should you check before turning on Instagram highlights on an iPhone?

There is one thing you have to check before going on to activate the ‘Highlights’ section within Instagram. This is associated more than anything with the Instagram app you have on your device. In order to enable such ‘Highlights’ you need to have the normal Instagram app installed .

Normal Instagram is the most complete application and the one that has all the options offered by the platform. On the other hand, Instagram Lite does not contain all the functions that Instagram brings, since it is a simpler version. In case you didn’t know, with normal Instagram it is possible to change the background that your images have .

 

 

Now, if you already have the normal version of Instagram , what you should make sure is that you have the latest version.

Check if your App is up to date

It is important that you check this kind of thing, since only in the latest version of Instagram is the option for ‘Highlighted Stories’ available. To verify that your Instagram is fully updated you must do the following:

  1. Turn on your iPhone.
  2. See the App Store.
  3. In there, go to the search bar.
  4. In the search bar it happens to place the word ‘Instagram’.
  5. Select only the first result.
  6. And if you see a button that says ‘Update’, that means you don’t have the latest version.

In case you see that button that says ‘Update’, just press it and wait for the update to install. When you’re done with this, if you want you can put the app in dark mode and also activate the ‘Featured Stories’ function.

What is the way to activate this Instagram option on your iPhone?

There are two ways to enable ‘Featured Stories’ within Instagram, the first way is by uploading a story and then highlighting it or else highlighting stories all at once in Insta settings.

Uploading a featured story

To feature a story without showing that you’ve placed it in the normal section of 24-hour stories, the following process should be used:

  1. Turn on the iPhone.
  2. Open the Instagram App.

 

 

  1. Log in.
  2. Go to your account profile.
  3. Go into settings.
  4. Then, go to the ‘Stories’ section.
  5. There, you’re going to hide your story from everyone.
  6. To finish, upload a story in the normal stories part, when the 24 hours are up, go to highlight the photo and remove the privacy setting.

Since Instagram does not give you an option to highlight stories at once , there is no other way than to do this to highlight the Stories without going to the normal Stories part. It should be noted that, if you are bothered by the suggestions of people you can follow, you can proceed to delete such suggestions .

Within the Instagram options

The other way to highlight a story is from the internal options of Instagram. To do something like this, you should use the following process:

  1. Start your iPhone.
  2. Open the Instagram App.
  3. Log in.
  4. Go to your account settings.
  5. Go to ‘Stories’.
  6. Then select the ‘Stories Archive’ option.
  7. Locate the photo you wish to highlight, open it, tick the ‘Highlight’ option and ready, that would be all.

This would be the other process to highlight stories within your Instagram account that you can use as many times as you want , since it never presents problems.

Why does this section still not appear on Instagram from an iOS device?

If you still can’t see the ‘Featured’ option for stories anywhere, it may be an app issue . The best way to solve this kind of mess is by uninstalling the application to reinstall it:

  1. Start your iPhone.
  2. Open the ‘Settings’ app.
  3. Go to the ‘Apps’section or the ‘Applications’ section.
  4. Search for ‘Instagram’.
  5. When found, select it.
  6. Hit the ‘ Uninstall‘ option.
  7. Finally, go to the App Store and download Instagram again.

 

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