How to Hide Your Instagram Highlights Without Deleting Them

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Last Updated: November 2, 2025

Instagram now allows you to archive your story highlights just like regular stories. While the app has had the story archive feature for a long time, the option to archive story highlights was introduced only recently. This feature lets you hide your highlights from others without deleting them, and you can unhide or unarchive them anytime you want. This wikiHow will show you how to do it.

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Archiving a Story Highlight

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Launch the Instagram app on your Android, iPhone, or iPad. Tap the Instagram app icon, which looks like a multicoloured camera. This will open your Instagram home page if you're already logged in.
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Go to your profile page. Tap your profile icon at the bottom right corner of the app to open the profile tab.

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Tap and hold the story highlight you want to hide or archive. You'll find your highlights between your bio and the posts grid.
- A menu panel will appear when you long-press the story highlight.
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Tap Archive Highlight. This will be the second option in the menu.
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That’s it! Once you complete these steps, you’ll see an “Archived” message at the bottom of your screen. Your story highlight is now successfully archived and hidden from your profile. If you want to unhide it, follow the steps below!

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Unarchiving a Story Highlight

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Open the Instagram app and go to your profile page. Tap the profile icon at the bottom right corner of the app.
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Open the Settings page. Tap the hamburger menu (≡) at the top-right corner of your profile page to access your Settings.
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Tap on Archive. You’ll find it under the “How you use Instagram” section, next to the “Saved” option.
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Move to the Highlights Archive tab. This is the second tab next to the “Story Archive”. Just swipe left to access it quickly.
- If you can’t find the tab, you might be in the “Posts Archive” page. To change it, tap “Posts Archive” at the top, then select “Stories Archive” from the pop-up menu.
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Tap and hold the story highlight you want to unarchive. To confirm you’re unarchiving the correct highlight, tap on it to preview the story highlight before continuing.
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Tap on Show on profile. This will be the first option in the menu. Once you do this, a confirmation box will appear on your screen.
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Tap Show on profile again in the pop-up box. You’ll see a “Highlight restored” message once it’s done.
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That’s it! Go back to your profile page to confirm your story highlight is restored. You’re done!
- If you don’t see your unarchived story highlight, you may need to refresh your page.