5 ways to download or save your Instagram Stories
- You can download an active Instagram Story shared by your own profile in a few ways.
- To download your own Instagram story, you can save it to your phone, highlights, or archive.
- Downloading your story on a computer, or downloading someone else’s story, requires third-party apps.
Instagram’s popularity allows you to take a peek into countless people’s lives, unique hobbies, and global trends. One Instagram feature that is fun and easy to manage is called Stories. Instagram Stories are photos and videos that are posted to your profile and last for 24 hours.
Since there’s a time limit on how long a story is visible to everyone, you have several options to save your own Instagram Story to your app or phone. There are also a few methods you could use to download or save someone else’s story.
Quick tip: Check out our complete Instagram guide.
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How to download your Instagram Story
There are several ways to save your own stories:
Manually save your story in the Instagram app
1. Open and log into Instagram.
2. Tap your profile picture, located in the top-left corner, to view posts you’ve added to your story.
Tap your profile picture to view your active Stories.
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3. Choose the story you’d like to save and tap the three dots at the bottom right and tap Save… (iPhone) or Save Photo/Video (Android).
Tap Save…
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4. On an iPhone, select Save Photo/Video to save that specific story. To save all your current stories as one vertical video, tap Save Story. Android users have to save each story individually.
Tap Save Photo or Save Video.
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Quick tip: If you want to download your Story from a computer, you’ll need to use a third-party app. Directions for that are detailed in the section for downloading other people’s stories.
Highlight your Story
You can also add Instagram Stories to your Highlights to save them.
1. Tap your profile picture, located in the top-left corner of the main screen on the Instagram app.
2. When your desired Story appears, tap Highlight, located toward the bottom-right corner of the screen.
Tap Highlight.
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3. Tap the desired highlight collection to save your Story to.
Tap the highlight collection, or create a new one.
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Once saved, you can go to your profile, and see the Story by tapping the highlight collection you saved the Story to (located just below your profile information).
Save the story to your phone or archive
This method involves saving your Instagram Story automatically to an archive in the app or to your phone’s memory.
1. On Instagram, go to your profile and tap the three-line Menu icon in the top-right corner.
Tap the three-line menu icon.
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2. Tap Settings, then Privacy.
Tap Settings.
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3. Tap Story. Underneath the Saving heading, you can toggle on Save Story to Camera Roll (iPhone) or Save Story to Gallery (Android) to save stories to your device’s photo app.
Toggle on the desired option to save your Story.
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4. You can also solely toggle on Save Story to Archive to save photos and videos to your archive and not to your phone.
Save your Story as an Instagram post
Another option to prevent your Story from disappearing after 24 hours is to convert it into a post:
1. Open your desired Story in the Stories feature.
2. Tap the three dots, located at the bottom of the screen.
3. Choose Share as post.
Tap Share as post.
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How to download someone else’s Instagram Story
Perhaps the simplest way to save someone else’s Instagram Story is to record or screenshot it on a mobile device, neither of which will notify the Instagram user.
Follow our guides on how to screen record on iPhone or Android, or how to screenshot on iPhone or Android devices like Google Pixel, and use those methods to capture a photo or video from any profile’s story while viewing it.
There’s also the option of using a third-party website like Toolzu, which can allow you to save your Instagram Story or someone else’s, as long as their account isn’t a private account.
- Go to Toolzu’s Instagram Story downloader in a desktop web browser.
- Type in the username of the account whose story you’re looking to download from, with the @ symbol included it (e.g. @user_name).
Enter the username of the account you want to download Stories from.
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3. Select the individual story you need and click Download.
Quick tip: A few other third-party sites or apps you may want to use include Story Reposter (iPhone only), Story Saver, and StoriesIG.
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Ennica Jacob is a multimedia producer and video journalist. In Summer 2019, she interned at the New York Daily News, where she penned two front page stories and covered daily breaking news from court proceedings to social events. In January 2020, she completed a semester in Paris, with an independent study project at CELSA – Université Paris-Sorbonne, a short documentary focused on the evolution of Hip-Hop, and an internship at Society Magazine.
She’s been freelancing with Insider since December 2020 and is currently a fellow with the Video Reference team.
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