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This How.com.vn teaches you how to make an Instagram Story public on Android. Instagram defaults new accounts to public privacy, which means anyone can view anything including your Stories. In order for everyone to see your Story, you have to make sure your Instagram account is public. However, you can hide your Story from certain people, even if your account is public. You can easily access this within the account settings of your Instagram account.
Steps
Making Your Profile Public
Open Instagram. The app icon is a camera inside a square that’s a gradient from yellow to purple. You can find this on your home screen, in the app drawer, or by searching.- If your Instagram profile is already public, which is the default setting, your stories are already public.
Tap your profile image or the silhouette. This is in the lower right of your screen. Your profile will open.
Tap ☰. A menu will slide out.
Tap the settings icon. You’ll find this at the bottom of the menu.
Tap Privacy and Security.
Tap Account Privacy.
Slide the "Private Account" switch off. If the switch was already off, your account is public and anyone can see your posts and Stories.[1]
- To see who has viewed your story, open the story and swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
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Managing Your Story Controls
Open Instagram. The app icon is a camera inside a square that’s a gradient from yellow to purple. You can find this on your home screen, in the app drawer, or by searching.- You can use this method to customize which Instagram users can view your story.
Tap your profile image or the silhouette. This is in the lower right of your screen. Your profile page will open.
Tap ☰. A menu will slide out.
Tap the settings icon. It's the gear icon at the bottom of the menu.
Tap Privacy and Security. You’ll see more settings for privacy load.
Tap Story Controls. You’ll see all the options for managing your Story privacy here.
Adjust your Message Replies preferences. Under the "Allow Message Replies" header, choose who you want to allow to send you messages in response to your stories. You can allow any of your followers to message you, restrict them to people you follow back, or disable replies altogether.
Slide the "Allow Sharing" switch to ON(optional). You may have to scroll down to see this option. If you enable this feature, anyone who can see your story has the ability to share it with others, giving you access to a liver audience.
Tap Hide Story From to manage your Hide list. It's at the top of the menu. A page will load that shows you who is prevented from seeing your Stories or live videos. Any user with a check mark next to their name is currently blocked from viewing your story.- To unblock someone, tap the check mark to remove it.
- To add someone to the list, tap one of the suggested contacts or search by name.
Tap Close Friends to manage the Close Friends list. This optional setting allows you to add your best friends to a list you can share to when posting your most private stories. This list will only be used when you select the Close Friends option while posting a new story. To manage the list:- Tap Add next to anyone you want on the list.
- Tap Remove to remove someone.
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1. Open Instagram.
2. Tap your profile icon.
3. Tap the three line menu.
4. Tap Settings.
5. Tap Privacy and Security.
6. Tap Account Privacy.
7. Slide switch off.
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