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title: "What are Instagram stories?"  
description: "What are Instagram stories?"  
author: "Sandra Emily"  
published: 2022-04-21  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96938/what-are-instagram-stories  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "instagram"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are Instagram stories?

What are [Instagram stories](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23441/how-to-gain-more-followers-on-instagram-through-instagram-stories)?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

![What are Instagram stories?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/c467d3bf-ebd9-476a-827c-88b94059621e/images/a9bc6ae0-e356-4c05-957f-fe699618a74b.jpeg)\

- Like Snapchat [Stories](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/4907/5-interesting-stories-from-puranas-that-teach-life-lessons), **[Instagram](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50569/how-to-create-second-account-and-add-it-to-your-iphone-8-instagram-app) Stories** allows you to share various videos and photographs captured throughout the day, complete with doodles and stickers. This 24-hour slideshow reel of photographs and videos allows you to share memories from your day without needing to maintain them on your Instagram profile.
- Simply take more videos and photographs and continue to broadcast them to repopulate your Instagram story reel. If you want an Instagram Story to stay on your profile for more than 24 hours, you can add it as a highlight.
- Swipe right from anywhere in your Instagram Feed and hit the '+' button in the upper right corner, then tap 'Story' in the bottom right corner.

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