The pinning feature lets users choose posts and permanently attach them to the top of their profile. This way, when people visit a profile, the first posts they see are the pinned ones, followed by the unpinned ones in chronological order.
How to Pin a Post on the Instagram App
- Open the Instagram app.
- Tap the post you want to pin.
- Tap the 3 vertical dots at the top right corner.
- Select Pin to your profile.
You can pin up to 3 posts on your profile. They will appear on the top of your post grid and will stay there until you unpin them. The rest of your post will be displayed in order.
Pinning a post to your profile does not affect how it’s displayed on your followers’ feeds. Pinning a picture right after you upload it does not guarantee that it will stay at the top of other people’s feeds or that it will stay longer. It only affects which posts people see first when they visit your profile.
How to Unpin a Post on the Instagram App
To unpin a post, all you have to do is follow the same steps as above and tap “unpin from profile.” The post will go back to the original spot it was at before you pinned it.
How to Pin a Comment on an Instagram Post
Besides pinning posts to your profile, you can now pin comments on your posts too. You can choose up to 3 comments to pin to the top of your post, where they will stay until you either unpin them or the person that commented deletes the comment.
- Open Instagram.
- Go to your post.
- Swipe left on the comment you want to pin.
- Tap the pushpin icon.
How to Pin a Story on Your Instagram Profile
You can feature your best Instagram stories as a series of pinned highlights under your bio. Stories disappear after 24 hours, so if you want to keep them on your profile permanently, you’ll have to pin them. Here’s how to pin a new story:
- Create the story and post it.
- Go to your profile.
- Tap the circle with the plus sign that says “New” at the bottom of your bio.
- Choose the story.
- Name the highlight category.
- Choose the highlight picture or use the default.
If you already have a highlight category that you want to add a story to, here’s what you need to do:
- Go to your profile.
- Tap the highlight category you want to add a story to.
- Tap “Edit highlight.”
- Tap “Options.”
- Choose the story.
- Choose the highlight picture or use the default.
Conclusion
Whether you want to use the pin feature to customize your profile or promote a product, pinning posts, comments, and highlights is incredibly easy. This feature gives users more control over their profile and lets them customize it more than ever.
As of right now, this feature isn’t available on Instagram from the browser. You can only pin posts when using the Instagram app. This doesn’t mean that you can’t see pinned posts when visiting a profile from a browser, just that you can only control your pinned posts on mobile. However, this feature is still pretty recent, so Instagram may implement pinned posts management for the browser version soon.
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