Yes, it is possible to feature stories without uploading them, more or less. This can be achieved thanks to a little trick with which you can use “Featured Stories” without your followers seeing the story on your profile first. Keep reading and I'll tell you how to do this trick to highlight a story without uploading it to Instagram.
Can you highlight an Instagram story without uploading it?
It may surprise you, but the short answer is that you cannot feature a story on Instagram without uploading it. However, there are tricks to upload stories to Instagram, so that no one sees them and when they are no longer active, highlight them. This way, for your audience, it is as if it had never been uploaded.
This is a little trick that can help you if you want to leave a story directly highlighted or if you have a publishing schedule to meet and you don't want to overload your audience with this type of publications. Now, the trick that I am going to explain to you has a small drawback and that is that we will have to wait a whole day, 24 hours, so that story ends before highlighting it.
But the specificity of this trick means that waiting these 24 hours is not an impediment. So if you are interested in doing this, keep reading as I will explain it to you easily, how to highlight these stories.
Highlight a story on Instagram without uploading it, step by step
As I told you, this trick will be effective if you do not have to publish today since you will have to wait 24 hours from when you upload the publication until you can highlight it. Taking this into account, Let's see how to highlight a story on Instagram without uploading it.
- Open Instagram and create a new story either from the gallery or taking a photo with the camera. Here you can edit it to your liking.
- Publish it and delete it quickly to hide it from your followers.
- Once deleted you only have to wait 24 hours How long do these types of publications last?
- After a full day, go to your profile and tap the icon "Settings" with the three horizontal lines in the upper right corner.
- Let recover history so look for the option "Exercise" and then tap on "Recently Deleted".
- Now the story in question will appear, tap on the three points at the top right of the story and click "Restore".
- Accept the message to confirm the restore.
- Go back to your profile and tap the "+" button to add the story you want as featured.
As you can see, this is an effective way to highlight a story on Instagram without uploading it, or at least, without your followers seeing it. And also, you can take the deleted story and place it with the rest of the stories within your profile. As I say, sometimes we are not interested in overloading our audience with stories but we are interested in having the information up there, along with the rest of the stories.
So now you know how to highlight a story on Instagram without uploading it for your followers to see. Remember to be fast, although it has to be a coincidence that in the short period of time that you upload and delete the story, someone sees it.
And remember, if you have any questions about how to upload these types of stories and highlight them on Instagram, you can Leave me your question in the comments and I will try to solve it..