Instagram is a powerful social network that unites a huge amount of audience which is very important for those content creators and business loyalty managers to promote products and brands or simply to share ideas, studies, entrepreneurship and tutorials.
A very particular option that Instagram has is to add featured stories to your profile, they are tools that help us to enhance our entrepreneurship, company, product or service and even our personal or social profile through this App.
Although many people know how to add these highlights, the truth is that they are not sure how to edit them or simply delete them, but let me tell you that it is a fairly simple procedure.
It is important to know that Instagram stories have a limited duration of up to 24 hours. However, when you set up or edit one of your highlights, you can pin it to find out who is watching it and has disappeared from your Feed.
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- What are the steps to delete your Instagram story highlights?
- From your Windows PC or Mac
- With your Android Mobile or iPhone
- How can you remove an Instagram story that was not published?
- How to edit or remove the name of your Instagram highlights stories?
- How to delete your Instagram account correctly if required?
What are the steps to delete your Instagram story highlights?
It always happens that, when uploading a story to Instagram, we make a mistake that we realize after uploading it, the edition or the content that is explained there is not to your liking or we simply regret uploading it for personal reasons.
Instagram offers us the option to delete these stories from its platform . Keep in mind that it is a very quick and easy process, in turn, it will allow you to maintain absolute control over your highlights. So if you want to remove it here I show you how to do it on your different devices that you own.
From your Windows PC or Mac
On your PC you just have to place Instagram in a search engine like Google Chrome or any of your preference, enter the Instagram application and you will have to enter your username and password to log in, then you will go to your profile and then you will press on of the story highlight you want to delete.
It will appear large and at the top of the photo there are 3 points in a row, you are going to press there and the option to delete will appear. And ready. This way you can delete the story that you no longer want to appear on your Instagram account.
With your Android Mobile or iPhone
For this you first have to have the Instagram application downloaded on your device, once downloaded, you only have to enter your Instagram account from your mobile, then you will go to your profile, press and hold on the featured story you want delete and a ‘MORE’ option will appear.
You will enter there and you will see different options, but the one that interests us in this case is to delete, we simply press there to delete and that’s it, it is deleted forever.
How can you remove an Instagram story that was not published?
It is very common that it happens to us that we want to upload a photo to our stories and that due to lack of connection, data, or signal on our phone it is not possible, so there is a kind of alert with an exclamation mark (!) at the top left, where our stories are positioned.
Pressing there will give you the option to try again, but since what we want is to delete it, we are going to touch the three vertical points that are on the right side at the bottom of our screen, there it will allow us to delete or save . And we’re going to press delete to achieve what we want, which is to remove an Instagram story that couldn’t be published.
How to edit or remove the name of your Instagram highlights stories?
It is very common to have a highlight story and want to edit it to make your Instagram profile look more attractive, as you know these highlight stories not only last 24 hours, but they stay much longer. They are there as attached to your profile, so you have the option to edit or delete the name.
You just have to enter your Instagram profile and select the featured story that you want to edit or delete, you are going to press the plus option with the three points that appears in the lower right part of the screen and there the options to delete the featured story will appear. .
Edit featured story, if you press the second option there you will see the option to change the name of the story, instead if you want to delete it, press the first option.
How to delete your Instagram account correctly if required?
If there are reasons why you no longer want your Instagram account, because personal events have happened, you no longer like the application or you simply got bored of using it and want to delete it, then this is possible, and you must follow these steps to be able to do it satisfactory way.
The complete process to delete an Instagram account forever is as follows: we enter the profile and once there, we are going to press the menu of the three vertical stripes that are in the upper right part of the screen, a menu will immediately appear and we’re going to look for the configuration option, then we’ll look at the end for the help option.
then we are going to go to help services, there a web page will open, at the top, Instagram asks you the question : How can we help you? And you are going to place delete account, once you have answered this, several questions will appear, including: How do I delete my account? And you are going to press it, it will send you to another tab where options such as temporarily deleting your account will appear.
We want it to be forever and then you will slide to the bottom where you have the option to delete your account and touch there, it will load for a few seconds and it will show you options for reasons why you want to delete your account. You choose the one you want, it also asks you for the password of the account you want to delete and you must enter it, and that’s it. Your account will be deleted.
