Ig stories from close friends to public

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Darren - Dec 16, 2020 at 01:22 PM
zara - Oct 7, 2023 at 05:33 PM

Hello, I have in my archive an old story that was originally setted on "close friends".
Now I'd like to put this story in my story highlights, but in a public way, for everyone, without the restriction of "close friends"....
Is this possible?
Thanks!!

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akosb
Jun 7, 2021 at 08:51 AM

Here is what you can do, if you want to make a highlight without people seeing it in your story, for example post events from 1 year ago into your highlight. At least thats where I was trying to go with this.
Go to Settings/Privacy/Story/“Hide Story from” and select all your followers. Then post the things into your story, add the to highlights, remove them from the story and undo the “Hide Story from”.
Thats the only way I found to do this. I hope it helps some of you!

Jj
Sep 20, 2021 at 12:26 AM

If I do this and hide my story from everyone and then add to highlights, once I “unhide” my story will they still be able to see the highlight even tho I posted it while they were all “hidden” from my story? Or will nobody be able to see my highlighted story?

Sapna
Updated on Apr 24, 2022 at 12:34 PM

thanks i did these steps and it worked.... none of my followers were able to see my story...but all my previous highlights were also hidden from my followers during this period ... And after 24 hours I unhide all my followers from seeing the story and now my highlights are visible to my followers too. It's a way of adding story to highlights without letting anyone know. They will know once they visit your profile otherwise your story is hidden.

Kara
Feb 7, 2023 at 07:33 PM

do you have to repost the stories as public when you do this? or will it work if I just put them into a highlight, wait 24 hours, then unhide my followers? Because I don't want to have to repost most of my stories as public.

Answer 3 / 8

David Webb Posts 3177 Registration date Monday November 25, 2019 Status Administrator Last seen May 15, 2023 6,926
Dec 17, 2020 at 05:32 AM

Hello, from the Instagram Help Centre.

Tap or your profile picture in the bottom right to go to your profile.
Tap (three lines)
Tap Archive.
Tap the story you want to share.
Tap Share at the bottom of the screen.
Tap Your Story or choose the people you want to share it with, then follow the on-screen instructions to finish sharing your story.

As indicated in the last step, you should be able to choose who you want to share with. Even if it was previously just a post for close friends.

Regards

Darren
Dec 17, 2020 at 06:37 AM

Thanks David! You have been very clear, and This could help in several cases :))

But I need to avoid to share the story in a new story...instead I need to share it directly from archive to highlights, and I need that the "mentions" with "@" could be still clickable....
In this way I was thinking about a function that, from the archive, could simply "unable" the green "close friends" label.... Or any other tip, if exists, is really welcome!
Thanks again David!

Arman > Darren
Mar 12, 2021 at 02:28 PM

Hey! Did you find out the way to do it? Actually I’m facing the same problem!

_.serafina_
Jul 30, 2021 at 01:39 AM

It’s not letting me share

DaphneSmith
Aug 28, 2021 at 08:52 AM

I need this, too! From “Close Friends” to public. I just wanted to post and save stuff as HIGHLIGHTS but not share it as story for public.
So I decided to create a close friend list where I just added my other IG account lol. Posted stories, saved it in highlights. But now I want that Highlight folder in my profile to be visible to everyone.

I hope IG have the option to just enable/disable Close Friends list.

FrustratedAFatglitches Posts 1 Registration date Tuesday September 28, 2021 Status Member Last seen September 28, 2021 5
Sep 28, 2021 at 11:53 PM

This doesn’t work and you’re missing the point!! I want to have an archived story that before was only shared w close friends but now (much time later) I would like to show it in my album view so that it’s public. Please add this feature or explain how this can be done ..(without having to touch ‘close friends’ list). Understand that this an archived story that I now want to share publicly. Thanks.

Answer 5 / 8

Me
Feb 26, 2021 at 05:46 PM

Hey!! I was wondering if you’d found a way to do this ?? I want to turn my close friends highlights to be public without all the stress of having to post it all on my story. Thank you!!

Darren
Mar 15, 2021 at 09:11 AM

No folks, sadly I don't.... I think that is actually impossible
Maybe is possible to suggest his improving function?.... ????

Darren
Apr 2, 2021 at 05:00 PM

Nope.....sadly it seems that ig doesn't offer this function....

paigevanny
Apr 25, 2021 at 11:30 AM

hey! i’ve been wondering the same thing! lemme know if u figure it out

Darren > paigevanny
Apr 28, 2021 at 02:58 AM

Sadly not.....but we are growing as a number, with the same question :)))

Maybe someone knows how to ask to IG to introduce this function?....
Cheers

Tommy > Scarecrow
Jun 17, 2021 at 06:39 AM

Then how to do lol we are all waiting

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