Instagram a social network that offers its services to users in characteristic ways, which only this one presents, in the same way you can notice that this network is constituted in such a way that it is ideal for doing business. For this reason we make use of what are called Instagram Stories, these can be modified even to add their own ads in the stories, in order to focus them on a specific audience.
But sometimes it may be that by mistake, you delete a story that has not yet fulfilled its purpose and do it again from the beginning, it can be annoying and it will not even be the same. Even so, this has a solution, because there is the possibility of recovering the history that was deleted, in this article we will see how to recover it and not waste the time invested in it, let’s see how it is done.
What do I need to do to access my story history on Instagram?
In this social network you can have access to features that allow you to have total control and management of the application, whether it is a personal or business account, you will be able to solve any inconvenience that may arise. Accessing the history of the Stories is not something that is difficult, although it does vary a bit between devices or brands.
Depending on which device you have decided to access the Instagram social network, this procedure may vary. Next you will see how to do it from an Android device and we will also explain how to do it in case you have an iOS mobile device; It must be taken into account that the archive of stories on Instagram should have been previously activated.
From the Android App
When you have an Android device you can access the history in a simple way, of course taking into account what we mentioned before, you must enable the automatic saving of these beforehand, you must also know that this works with your own account, that is, it does not work with stories of profiles of others or other people. To access the history we must follow the following steps.
- The first thing you are going to do is enter the Instagram Profile.
- Then you are going to select the (+) symbol.
- Recent posts will appear in this part.
- Select the published story that you deleted.
- And this one will be filed in highlights.
This way you will have recovered the story, we must clarify that if you deleted a story it is because it had already been published and then it was deleted, when publishing it there is a record of what you have done, just press the one you need to recover.
With an iOS device
If you have a mobile device that can be an iPhone or an iPad, there is a way to recover it, since we can create more attractive stories on Instagram, which in our opinion will have a much greater impact, depending on whether we have set the objective, to recover it we must follow these steps.
- First go to your Profile.
- Then go to the Menu.
- Now go to the Settings section.
- Go to Security.
- In the Data and History section, click on “Access data”.
- Now in the “profile information” section you will have four options.
- The ones you care about are these two “Previous Texts in Bio” and “Previous Links in Bio”.
- Choose the one you want and you can select the history to recover.
How to re-upload a story deleted by mistake?
What you must do is access the Profile, then you must locate a clock icon on the top right, this is the “Story Archives” section, in this part you can see all the stories that have been made from the beginning; they are divided into “Story Archive” and “Post Archives”.
When you find the publication you are looking for, you select it, then it will be shown as if it were still published, to show it again to your followers. You can hit the heart button to highlight it and show it again or you can also press “Share” to publish it as new; then the edit button will appear, to edit the story that was already published, to re-share it with the modification.
How can I enable automatic story saving on my Instagram?
The stories archive in this case is our ally, because through it we can recover the stories that we need to publish again, for this it is necessary to follow the following steps.
- Enter the Menu from your Profile.
- Select the “Settings” option.
- Now in the Privacy and security section.
- Then go into “Story Controls”.
- In this we are located in the “Saved” section.
- We activate the switch “Save to file”, so that it saves the stories.
What to do to disable automatic saving?
As for disabling file saving, you can proceed in the same way, as we did before to enable the option, what you must do is disable or change the position of the “Save to File” option switch, in this way they will not be saved any of the publications to be made in the future.
