How to use Instagram highlight icons to improve your page

Key quotes:

• "If you are uploading media directly from you phone that you’d like to make into a Highlight, this little hack allows you to preview and upload multiple Stories posts at the same time."
• "You can now preview and edit each Stories post by flicking through them at the bottom of the screen, or by tapping the far left or right of each Stories post, prior to uploading them."
• "A common misperception is that you can only add a cover image to a Stories Highlight if you have uploaded the image to the Highlight."
• "Adding cover images to your Stories Highlights can increase your professionalism, strengthen your branding and entice users to view your Highlights."
• "To add a cover image to your Stories Highlight without uploading it as a Stories post: 4."
• "Instagram orders your Stories Highlight by placing the one which has been added to most recently at the beginning of the order on your Instagram profile."

Transcript: Hey guys so I'm going to show you how you can make your own Instagram highlighted story covers using canva if you're still not totally sure where my highlights are it's a feature that Instagram rolled out to allow you to archive stories even after they have expired and display them into your profile just under your bio users are now using them to add to their visual themes and their brands by using their own custom made highlight covers so here's how you can make yours okay so the first thing you're going to want to do is log into canvas and then go ahead and click use custom dimensions if you're on the App the canva app they also have a stories template already so you can use that one or you can just type it in here the dimensions are 1080 by 1920 then click design and then it's gonna pop up with this dimension here okay so the first thing I do is I go over to elements click on shapes and then I just grab a regular square box and make it my background and now you're gonna want to change this to whatever color... See more →

Transcript: Hi guys welcome to my ex's channel this is me MC from Nancy Betty Joe calm and on today's tutorial I'm gonna be showing you how to add an Instagram highlight cover and also how to edit it cover as well I wanted to give you guys a freebie for all the supports that you guys give me on YouTube as well as my other social media platforms so for this video I'm giving you guys 50 X e pre-made highlight covers so if you are an XC seller or if you are in the handmade business or maybe you sell on Amazon or Ebay you could still use these covers or free they already pre-made you have a total of 50 of them and you also have some lifestyle covers as well so you have a little bit of everything so make sure that you click on the text box below so head over to my blog and claim your freebie today so let's go ahead and get started on this tutorial it's gonna be a really brief one on due to the fact that this has gone really only a few simple steps in order to add or... See more →

Key quotes:

• "Go to your Instagram profile and tap the circular icon with a ‘+’ sign to create a new Highlight."
• "You can choose any of the Stories you’re going to include and move it to highlight which part of the image you want to serve as your cover — keep reading to discover quick and easy ways to make fun Highlight Covers! Here are some ways to utilize the tools ON Instagram to create fun Highlight Covers for your Stories."
• "Did you know you could create a solid colored background on Instagram Stories? Snap a pic of anything, tap on the marker icon up top, choose the color you’d like to use as your background and hold down on the screen until the color takes over."
• "BAM, instant color backdrop for you to add text, images, any anything else you’d like to use a potential Highlights Cover."
• "Create fun text highlight covers using the backgrounds + font options on the Instasize app."

Transcript: Hey guys it's Sarah and welcome back to my channel so all my Instagram I'm beginning a lot of questions on how I created my Instagram story highlights so I thought I'd fill my video if you guys today showing you how I do that so you guys can create your own Instagram story highlights for you or Instagram so let's go right ahead and get straight into the video alrighty soo so the first step in creating your Instagram story highlight is finding images that best suit the categories of your Instagram stories so for example on my Instagram stories I post a lot about my youtube or outfits of the day so obviously it makes sense for me to find photos that are best suited to that okay to give you guys an idea of the photos you could use for your categories I'm going to go ahead and show you my Instagram story highlights so I have a category for YouTube so obviously I just have the YouTube logo for the photo shopping I just have a plain shopping bag outfits of the day I have a clothes hanger just because that relates best to clothes for... See more →

Key quotes:

• "With Instagram custom Highlight covers, you can create covers that match your branding and aesthetics."
• "In the same way, you can make attractive Instagram Highlight covers to make your profile more visually appealing."
• "It’s a good idea to match your branding and feed aesthetics with your Instagram Highlight covers."
• "To drive brand awareness, you can incorporate your brand’s logo, colors, fonts, and design into your Instagram Highlight covers."
• "Step 3: Select the Story that you want to add as a new Highlight cover from your archives."
• "Then, tap on “Next.” Step 4: Choose an appropriate name for your Highlight and click on “Done.” Step 5: You will now be able to see your updated Instagram Highlight Cover on your profile."

Key quotes:

• "Instagrammers can now highlight photos and videos they’ve posted in their stories that will remain permanent on their Instagram page under their bio and above their feed."
• "Just like your feed, you can make your Instagram page stand out with some custom icons as your highlight covers."
• "We’ve got you covered with a colorful list of brilliant Instagram highlight icon sets that are readily available for purchase, all designed by North Sea Studio."
• "The 20 Instagram story highlight covers is designed with a black background and icons in copper to keep your feed looking simple, yet chic."
• "The background of leaves in black and grey with rose-colored brush stroke fonts gives somewhat of tropical vibes to its aesthetics makes it the newest and most popular highlight cover icons on our site."
• "Then, this ready-to-use Minimal Instagram Story Covers can keep your social media presence as minimalist as possible with plain white backgrounds and brushstroke fonts."

Transcript: What up YouTube family Dev Anand egg back once again with another Instagram stories tips video just for you now this one's about the highlights now I'm not sure if you noticed but it's a trim going around right now where people are putting dope curated icons for different categories on their highlights so if you look on their homepage you'll see a nice organized row of icons that just look really dope so I'm gonna teach you exactly how to do that all from your phone right after this intro welcome back to Devon on tech where I give you how to's and creative talk now in this video I'm giving you the exact way to put those icons on your Instagram stories highlights but first if you have a sub to my channel yet I will greatly appreciate that if it's your first time here my name is Devon on deck and I first got my start on Instagram my friend I'm the fashion guy that creates anime inspired video content and that's exactly where this part of my channel was born so here on Devon on tech I teach you the content tips and editing as well... See more →

Key quotes:

• "For about two weeks now, I have been creating a feed of photos for Anthem Branding and establishing them as Instagram Highlight Stories that provide context of who we are and what we do as a business."
• "With Instagram Highlight Stories, the stories stay on your profile for as long as you want."
• "Cover Photos or Icons Creating a good cover photo for each Instagram highlight story is important to bring everything together and keep your social media cohesive."
• "If you want to keep your cover photo, but not have it on your highlight feed, click into the actual highlight story."
• "That means that every story you want to put on the highlight has to be posted as a story first on your general Instagram account."

Transcript: What's going on guys Chris Chavez hears banjo comso Instagram recently added a new feature which basically allows you to archive some of your stories so you can save them to your Instagram account and they'll always be uploaded and saved to the cloud but those are kind of private those are sort of your own private stash you can find them in your profile page you click on a little timeline thing here and you can see all the stories that you've archived and that's of course once you've enabled the feature you can enable it by going into your settings story settings and then switching over to saved to archive so this way every time you post the story it's gonna save it to your archive and you can always go back and view it so sort of building upon that feature is a new feature they're called there they're calling highlights basically what this does it allows you to pin your stories to your profile which you can see right here and sort of create your own little stories that you want directly onto your page that anyone can come to your profile page and see the... See more →