If you don’t want to remove it entirely before the 24-hour window, but just want to make changes to who can actually see it, tap “story settings” and you’ll see a plethora of options to choose from. Some memories are too good not to share, but you might not want to share it with all your followers. Tap the three dots/more option in the bottom right corner and select 'Delete.' Navigate to your own photo or video in question either by tapping on your user photo from the homepage (it will always be the first one in the lineup) or from your user profile. They will automatically disappear from your Story feed after 24 hours, but users can delete their Story before the 24 hour expiration deadline. Only the creator has access to this list. You can see who has viewed your story during the time it was live by watching your own story and tapping the “seen by” option at the bottom left corner of the screen.

If you’re choosing to send your photo or video to a select person or multiple people, it will appear in their “inbox” as a direct message. Get creative with text, stickers, a doodle, questions, or a filter, and share it.Īll these options appear at the bottom of the screen: Add it to your story, blast it to your curated group of close friends, or you can send it to select people by tapping the “send to” button. After enabling camera and/or microphone access (if it’s not set up yet), you can take a photo, create a short video clip or boomerang, go live, or even upload content from your video roll by selecting the image that appears in the bottom left corner (it should be the most recent pic from your camera roll). Just tap the camera icon located in the upper left corner of the home screen. If you’ want to change the length of your Instagram story, you can find comfort knowing that editing a story is so easy, you'll have #noregrets about trying it out.

But just like on Snapchat, impromptu sharing has its pitfalls: come 9 a.m., you might regret that selfie you posted at midnight after drinking three glasses of wine. With Instagram’s Story feature, users can share play-by-play photos and videos of anything from a last-minute walk in the park to your toddler saying the darndest thing without compromising the visual consistency of a carefully-curated feed.

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