Since Instagram implemented Stories inspired by the Snapchat format, the Meta (formerly Facebook) platform, has experienced the boost Mark Zuckerberg was looking for when he bought this platform in 2012 for $ 1.000 billion, and it has multiplied in value since then.
Instagram Stories, like those of Snapchat and the same that we can find in WhatsApp, are small video fragments that can be composed of photographs that have a duration of 24 hours from their publication. After this period, they are automatically removed from the platform.
Each user makes a different use of this type of content, but, in most cases, it is intended to inform their followers or friends of the activities that you have carried out or plan to carry out in the future.
Users who publish Stories on Instagram, can know at all times how many people and who have seen these videos. However, not all users want to confirm their curious side and be included in the list of people who see a person's Stories.
Instagram does not offer us any method to hide our activity, so we are forced to resort to other tricks and / or applications or extensions to be able to hide our visit from the Instagram Stories of our friends, neighbors, relatives ...
If you want to know how see a preview of Stories of Instagram, below, we show you a series of tricks and applications to not leave a trace of your visit.
Activate airplane mode
El best method To prevent people from knowing that you have seen the Stories that have been published on Instagram, it is to activate the airplane mode of our smartphone, a function that obviously only works on mobile devices.
When you activate airplane mode, the application nor communicate to the platform that we have seen one / s Story / s published on this platform, as long as we activate it by following the steps that I show you below. If you skip a step, it won't do you any good.
- Once we open the application we wait a few seconds until all the stories are loaded. When we see that they are no longer displayed, it means that the loading process has finished.
- At that moment, we activate airplane mode of our device (sliding your finger from top to bottom and click on the plane icon).
- From this moment we can access the Stories. You do not need an internet connection to do so, since these have been downloaded to our device.
- Once we have finished viewing the Stories, we have to close the application completely and deactivate the airplane mode.
If possible, it is recommended to deactivate the airplane mode before, reboot the device so that no action is stored in the device memory.
hiddengram
Another option that we have at our disposal to not leave a trace of our visits to the Stories published by the people we follow is use the Microsoft Hiddengram extension for Chrome and Edge, an extension available for any desktop browser based on Chromiun and that we can download through this link.
The operation of the application is very simple since we can activate or deactivate its operation directly from the browser bar. When the button is in red, it means that anonymous browsing of the platform is activated.
When the icon representing the extension is in green, it means that we are leaving our trace on the social network. If you do not want to be aware of activating and deactivating it, it is advisable to always leave it activated to avoid unnecessary problems.
blindstory
If you have the habit of not wanting to leave a trace in the Instagram Stories of your friends, family, co-workers ... you can give the BlindStory application a try, an application that we can download for free on the Play Store and that includes ads and in-app purchases.
This application allows us perform account searches on the platform and access all the content they publish, including the Stories and enjoy them without the user who has published them knowing that we have done so.
In-app purchases allow unlock the daily limit of Stories views, a purchase that is not necessary unless you want to see the Stories of all your surroundings without leaving any type of trace.
One of the strengths of the application and that it will save us a lot of time, is that it allows us to receive a notification when the accounts we follow publish new content.
Anonymous View for Instagram Stories
If Hiddengram did not just search for you and you want to enjoy the possibility of record Instagram Stories Of the accounts you follow while hiding your trail, you can give Anonymous View for Instagram Stories a try.
Anonymous View for Instagram Stories, an extension that also is available for free on the Web Chrome Store and what it is compatible with any Chromium-based browser like Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
Block the user once we have seen the History
A method used by many users to prevent your visit to a story from being recorded to block the user once they have visited a specific Story.
The problem with this method is that it forces us to continuously unlocking and unlocking the person whose stories we want to see.
But, in addition, it can be a problem if that person follows us, since, automatically, the person we block will stop following us with all that this entails.
This method is neither practical nor comfortable, since once we return to the account from which we want to see the Stories, that person You will receive a notification that we are following you.
Swipe the feed partially
A rather striking method that some users also claim to work and which I highly doubt will do is swipe partially on the History to show it.
Not only are we not going to see the full story, but also nobody assures us that our visit is not being counted in the register of people who have reproduced it.