How to hide Instagram Stories from certain users
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Instagram Stories have not met the same fate as WhatsApp States. Not even the same as Snapchat, the culprit of this whole world of ephemeral stories and videos. He has triumphed over all of them. Right now there is no application that coughs up Instagram. In some cases, such as the aforementioned WhatsApp or the Facebook or Messenger stories, they can be considered unsuccessful. Instagram is in another league. Right now she is the queen of photography, live video and ephemeral history.
It may happen that, while you are looking at the Instagram Stories section, there are videos that do not interest you, or whose content is dispensable to us. User photos can be spectacular and your travel reports splendid. But his stories do not contribute anything at all. And it was a nuisance to have to pass the user manually. Why wasn't there a way to simply 'mute' that user so they never appeared to us again? How to hide Instagram Stories so you can only browse your favorites?
How to hide Instagram Stories from certain users
Well yes. There is a very simple way to hide or silence the Instagram Stories of those users that we find more bland, boring or annoying. If you want to know how to hide Instagram Stories, keep reading. It is so simple that you will regret not putting it into practice much sooner.
The first step is obvious: open our Instagram application. If by chance you don't have it installed right now, you just have to go to the Android application store and get it totally free. Once downloaded and installed, we connect to our account and start.
At the top of the app, we can see all the Stories in a carousel, one next to the other. If we enter one, the following ones will appear consecutively. If we want to pass a story, we give a finger touch If we want to pass the user, we slide our finger to the left. And mute history?
We left the stories section again. If we want to hide the Instagram Stories of certain users, we leave the circle corresponding to the user pressed for a few momentsA pop-up window will appear, with two options: view the profile of the user in question or mute 'X'. Press, of course, ‘Mute…’.
All hidden or muted users you will locate them at the end of the visible stories carousel If you want to reactivate a hidden user, just You must go to the latest stories, search for the desired user and hold down the circle again for a few moments. at that time, the user will be placed back among the first stories pending to be seen.
The privacy of Instagram Stories
Just because we share hobbies, likes, or a small friendship with a contact on Instagram doesn't mean we want to make a story public. E Instagram allows you to hide your story from certain users. Doing this is very simple:
You just have to enter your Instagram account, where your complete photo album is.Once on this screen, press the three-point menu that we have located at the top of the application. On the 'Options' screen, go to 'Account' and then 'Story Settings'.
Large, at the top, we can read 'Hide history to'. Here we click and choose the user we want to restrict. It's that easy. Once done, those users will not be able to see your Stories. In addition, you can also restrict responses to your Stories Allow all Instagram users who follow you and follow you to comment, only those you follow or disable it .
