On Instagram, we love to share the beautiful moments of our life! But, while we might want all our followers to see our posts, we may want to reserve our stories for a select few!
Not everything we share on Instagram ought to be public and we can select who sees our stories by making certain changes in the settings of our account. So, we can keep stories more personal and to be shared with special people.
We have detailed below who can see your stories on Instagram and listed a step-by-step guide on how to hide your Instagram stories from certain people. After all, they are your personal stories and you have the right to decide who sees them! Read on to learn more.
Who Can See Your Instagram Story?
Who sees your stories on Instagram depends entirely on your privacy settings. If your account is set to Private, only those followers that you approve can view your stories whereas if your account is set to Public, all your followers can see your stories in the feed.
On a Public profile, anyone who visits your profile can see your story and they can also come across it in Explore. People with whom you have started a thread can also get access to your stories.
If you do not want certain people to gain access to your story, you can have them blocked, but that means that they will not be able to see your profile or posts either. If you don’t mind them seeing your posts and only want to hide your story, you can follow the steps given below.
How to Hide Instagram Stories From Certain Followers
The reason you want to privatize your Instagram stories might be because of your colleague from work who is always talking behind your back, or you just may want to be more private! Here’s how you can leave out unwanted people and trouble makers from seeing your stories!
A Step-By-Step Guide
Begin by tapping on your Instagram-user-profile or your profile picture at the bottom right of the page to go to your profile. Once you are on your profile page, go ahead, and tap on Instagram Settings on the top right corner.
You can then tap on Privacy and select the Story option. Next you will be given the option of Hide Story From, you can tap on that option. Here, you can select the usernames of people that you want to hide your Instagram stories from, and then tap on Done.
More Information on Privatizing Instagram Stories
In this way you can hide your stories from certain people and once selected in this manner, they will not be able to see any of your stories now or in the future.
In case you want to un-hide your story from someone, you can follow the same method, but in the last step, you can tap on their name and un-select them. You can also choose to hide your story from someone when you are looking at who has seen your story.
To do so, you can open your story and swipe up on the screen. Here you will see the names of the people who have seen your story. You can tap to the right of their name and select the Hide Story From option. This way you can stop them from viewing your stories in the future.
Takeaway
Instagram gives us so many ways to maintain our privacy and we can always take advantage of these options whether it means hiding our stories from certain people or blocking them entirely!
With simple and user-friendly privacy settings we can always limit who has access and how much access they have to our Instagram profile.
