How to Hide Your Story on Instagram

By posting Instagram stories, which are fullscreen photos and videos which disappear after 24 hours, you can share fast moments with your Instagram followers. If you don't want someone to look at your Instagram stories specifically, you can add them to your Hide From Story list. Here's how to hide your Instagram story.

How Hiding Stories on Instagram Works

If you hide your stories from followers, they're not the wiser you've done it. They're still going to be able to see your regular posts in their home page, show your profile, and connect with you—they're just not going to see your stories stream into their stories or your profile appear. This might be better if they are to be blocked or excluded as followers.

How to Hide Instagram Stories From Followers in Settings

If you want to hide your stories from certain people prior to posting something, you can do this through your settings.

• Open the Instagram app and tap the profile icon in the bottom menu to go to your profile.
• Tap the menu icon in the top right corner.
• Tap Settings.
• Tap Privacy.

• Tap Story under Interactions.
• Tap Hide Story From.
• Tap the circle to the right of any name to apply a blue checkmark to anyone you want to hide your story from.

• Tap Done (iOS) or the blue checkmark (Android) in the top right. Anyone included in your Hide Story From list won't see your stories appear in their stories feed on the home tab or circled on your profile.

How to Hide Instagram Stories From Followers From the Viewer List on a Story

You can see who's viewed your stories that are currently posted. If you notice someone in the view counter who you don't want viewing your stories, you can hide them from here.

1. Tap to view one of your stories, then tap the Seen by X view counter at the bottom to see a list of followers who've viewed it.
2. Find a follower you want to hide your stories from and tap the three dots that appear to the right of their name.
3. Tap Hide Story From [Name].They'll automatically be added to your Hide Story From list, which you can access from your settings.

Extra Tips About Hiding Your Instagram Stories

Please note that you can cover from your stories only current followers— not just anybody. So if your Instagram profile is set for public viewing and you see people who don't follow you watching your stories as well, you may want to consider making your Instagram profile private.

You may also notice that your story appears on a location page or a hashtag page, which can be seen at the top of the view counter. Only press the X to the right of the location or hashtag tab to prevent it from appearing here.

Finally, if you want to share some stories with a smaller group of people, you should consider using the Close Friends function of Instagram, which allows you to share stories only with a group of followers that you have selected.