Choose who can – and can’t – see your Instagram Stories

Instagram’s ‘Close Friends’ feature makes it easier to restrict your Stories to a select group of people, for when you don’t want all your followers to see them. Go to your profile and tap on ‘Close Friends’ in the side menu o create a list of people you’d like to share Stories with. Your list of close friends can be viewed only by you. When you create a Story you’ll see an option to share it with just your ‘Close Friends’ who will see a green ring ard re never notified that you added them to or removed them from your list. your story at the top of the feed.friends are never notified that you added them to or removed them from your list .

You can also prevent people from sharing your story:

  • Go to that same page (“Settings” > “Privacy” > “Story”). Scroll down to the bottom where there’s a section labeled “Sharing.”
  • You’ll see an option that says “Allow Sharing.” Turning this off will prevent people from messaging your stories to others.
  • You can also turn off “Allow Resharing to Stories” to prevent people from adding your posts to their stories.
  • To stop your stories from being shared to Facebook, disable “Share Your Story to Facebook.” This means they’ll only post to Instagram.

Finally, you can use Instagram’s Close Friends feature to limit the reach of your stories to specific people.

  • To set who’s in that group of people, go to “Settings” > “Privacy” > “Story”
  • Tap under Close Friends and start adding people. People won’t be notified when they’re added (or removed) from this group.

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