Chapter 10
Using Instagram Highlights to Keep Your Content Alive
IN THIS CHAPTER
Familiarizing yourself with Story Highlight galleries
Exploring how to create your own highlights
Discovering how to add more content to your highlights
Stories disappear after 24 hours, and it can be frustrating to know that the content you created is lost. However, there’s a way you can keep those stories alive longer. Highlights allow you to select certain stories to stay active on your profile in specific galleries you set up.
In this chapter, we explain how to set up highlights and how to add content to them. We also talk about some of the reasons why you may want to use highlights and give you some creative ideas for highlight topics.
Getting Acquainted with Highlights
Story Highlights are the series of circles directly beneath a person’s bio on their Instagram profile (see Figure 10-1). A person may only have a few of these galleries, or they may have a number of them that you can scroll through.
FIGURE 10-1: Story Highlights are the series of circles beneath the bio and are a place to collect ...
Get Instagram For Dummies, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
