If you've scheduled your Instagram Stories in Later and it's time to publish, this guide will help!
Stories are published though notification publishing. This means at your Stories scheduled time, we'll send a notification to your mobile device. Open the notification and follow the steps below to set your Story live.
Publishing on iOS
- Open the notification on your mobile device.
- Tap Open in Instagram.
- Tap the photo in the bottom left to open your Camera Roll.
- If your Story has multiple media items, tap Select Multiple in the top right corner.
- Select all the media items before the blue stop marker and then tap Next.
- Paste your copied caption or add more text to each Story slide.
- Tap Next and Share your story!
Important: If your Story includes a video longer than 15 seconds, you must publish the video separately due to iOS limitations. To do this, select all media items before the video and then publish those media items to your Story. Then repeat the publishing steps for the video only.
Publishing on Android
Single Media Item
- Open the notification on your mobile device.
- Tap Open in Instagram.
- When prompted to Share to, select Stories.
- Paste your caption, if you have one.
- Tap Send to and then Share beside Your story.
Multiple Media Items
- Open the notification on your mobile device.
- Tap Add to Story on Instagram.
- Swipe up to open your camera roll.
- Tap the multiple photo icon on the top right.
- Select all the media items before the blue stop marker and then tap Next.
- Paste your copied caption or add more text to each Story slide.
- Tap Send to and then Share beside Your story.
Note: If you’re having trouble receiving mobile notifications, check out our troubleshooting guide.
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