How to highlight on Instagram without posting a story? To post photos and videos to Highlights, your content must first be shared as a story, but there is a trick that can be useful for you.
How to highlight without a story on Instagram
Highlight is one of the popular features of Instagram that allows users to display stories that have expired within 24 hours of their publication on their page.
Your photo or video must be shared as a story in order to add it to your highlight.
There is no way to directly insert a photo or video into highlights, but there is a trick you can use.
You need to lock your page so that someone outside of your followers can't see the story, then add your followers list to Hide Story From. In this way, they will not be able to view the story. So make a story of the desired photo or video. After 24 hours, you can return the followers to the first state and return the page to the public state. Then add the story to the highlight.
Add story to Highlight
It is not possible to post a highlight without a story on Instagram, but you can use this method to hide the story and add it to the highlight after 34 hours.
As said, you can't put the story directly in your highlight. But you can hide the story for your followers. This way, after 24 hours, you can add the story to your highlight without anyone seeing it.
For this, you must first lock your page. Open the Instagram app. Then click on your profile icon at the bottom of the right page.
Now your profile page will open, at the top right of the screen, tap the three lines on the menu, then select the Settings option.
Now enter the Privacy section and activate the switch in front of Private Account.
At this stage of posting a highlight without a story on Instagram, enter the story section. Then click on the gear icon at the top left of the screen.
Now enter the Story section.
Open the Hide Story From section.
Now select your followers. Those you choose in this section will not be able to tell you stories.
Now go back to the story page, record a video or photo or select the desired content from your gallery. Then make your desired changes on it. And share the story.
After 24 hours, remove the followers from the list and return your page to public mode. Then add the story to the highlight.