Best Instagram Hacks And Tricks For Boost Followers In 2022

• Best Instagram Hacks And Tricks and Features You Should Know In 2021

1. Add music to your Instagram Story

Your Story needs a soundtrack! Needs it.

How to do it:

1. Record your video, take your picture or upload your content.
2. On the edit screen, tap the music note icon on the top of the screen.
3. Select your song.
4. On the editing screen, you have a few options to customize how the music is presented or visualized:
   • On the bottom, scroll between options to showcase the lyrics or the album cover.
   • At the top of the screen, tap the color wheel to change the color of any text.
   • Tap the number in a circle to adjust the duration of the clip.
   • At the very bottom of the screen, scroll to select the portion of the song you’d like to play.
5. Back on the edit screen, pinch or expand to make the album cover or lyrics bigger or smaller. (Tip: if you don’t want them to appear at all, shrink that element as far down as you can and put a sticker over top!)
   

Instagram Story photo hacks

2. Create “progression” posts that build on an image

Build the drama over several Story posts, by adding new elements to the same base image. Oooh, the suspense!

How to do it:

1. Craft a Story post as usual with video, photos, text, stickers or drawings.
2. Before you upload it, click the save icon (a downward-facing arrow above a line) at the top to download your composition to your camera roll (if you’ve added any gifs or music, this will save as a video).
3. Upload your Story by clicking the Send To button on the bottom right corner.
4. Next, start a new Story.
5. Select Create, then go to your camera roll and select that first Story you’ve saved.
6. Now, you can seamlessly build on top of that first Story with additional elements.
7. Save this new creation to your camera roll.
8. Repeat as necessary.

3. Create a “revealing” Story series

How to do it:

1. Add an image in create mode.
2. Now fill the screen with color (see trick #3!).
3. Select the eraser tool.
4. Erase a bit of the color layer to reveal a small sliver of your image underneath.
5. Hit the save button to download this to your camera roll… but do not upload it yet.
6. Uncover some more of the image by continuing to erase the color layer, hitting the save button at various stages to capture the reveal step-by-step.
7. When you’re done collecting all of these images, start a fresh Story post and upload that very first image.
8. Post the next saved images one by one so that followers will see the image being uncovered in stages.

4. Create cool effects with the eraser tool

A few strategic swipes of the eraser can create the illusion of photo and other elements merging into one. Harmonious! Inspiring! Is this… art?

How to do it:

1. Open the photo you’d like to use.
2. Use the marker tool (we like neon) to create a visual element that overlaps the central object of your photo.
3. Now, use the eraser tool to erase any marker bits that overlap with the main photo object. It’ll look like the drawn bits are weaving around it. An optical illusion!

5. Compose a multi-image Story

The more images, the merrier! Use the paste tool to throw as many photos into a Story as you’d like. Who would dare stop you?!

How to do it:

1. Open your camera roll and select a photo.
2. Tap the share icon, and click copy photo.
3. Back in the Instagram app, click in a text box and select paste.
4. Repeat to pile on the pics.

6. Use Instagram’s photobooth feature

You’re a model, baby! Instagram’s new Photobooth feature will take four snaps in a row, which you can then showcase in a variety of dynamic formats. (There are a lot of flashing camera bulbs, we’ll warn you right now.)

How to do it:

1. Open Instagram Stories and scroll down to find the Photobooth tool (an icon that looks like a pile of photos).
2. Choose a filter if you’d like, and then hit the shutter button. You’ll get a 3-2-1 countdown for each of four shots.
3. In the preview screen, you can add music (“Covergirl” by RuPaul is the only correct choice, btw) or click the Photobooth icon again at the top to choose from a few different formats — like film roll, which looks like vintage film.

7. Create Boomerangs from your live photos

Did you snap a moment with your iPhone that you want to relive again — and then relive again backwards? And then forwards? And then backwards again?

If you’ve taken the photo as a Live photo, it’s possible. (If you’re not sure how to take a Live photo in the first place, just open your camera app and tap on the concentric circles at the top!)

How to do it:

1. Open Instagram Stories and swipe up to view your photo gallery.
2. Pick a live photo from your camera roll.
3. Hold down on the photo until the word “Boomerang” appears.

Instagram Story text hacks

8. Hide hashtags and @mentions

Preserve your aesthetic vision by tucking unlighting hashtags or tags out of sight. It’s the digital equivalent of hiding your electrical cords behind your mid-century-modern desk before Architectural Digest comes a-knockin’.

How to do it:

Method 1

1. Type out your hashtags and mentions.
2. Hit the stickers button and select your camera roll.
3. Add an image from your camera roll, which will be placed on top of your hashtags to obscure them.
4. Resize your image to fill the screen: the hashtags are technically there for Instagram to read, but human eyes won’t be able to see!

Method 2

1. If you start off creating a post with an image, add a text box on top and type your hashtags and mentions.
2. With the text box still active, click on the rainbow wheel at the top of the screen.
3. Tap the eyedropper icon.
4. Tap a spot on the photo to change the text to that same color and blend in.
5. Resize the text box if necessary.

9. Express yourself with even more fonts

The standard Instagram Story fonts are just the tip of the typographic iceberg.

If the in-app typewriter or Comic Sans-knockoff lettering isn’t doing it for you, find something more exciting to paste in.

How to do it:

1. Head to the Instagram Fonts Generator website on desktop or mobile.
2. Type in your message and hit enter to see your font options.
3. Copy the message and paste into the Instagram Story text box.

Pro tip: If you have a branded font, add your text right to an image with Photoshop, Over, or another image editing app, and then upload to Stories from there.

10. Layer text to add a shadow effect

For text that pops, try this double-up trick.

How to do it:

1. Type out your text, then select all and copy.
2. Start a new text box and paste in that text.
3. With text still selected, click the rainbow wheel at the top and choose a different color.
4. Shift that text ever so slightly and layer underneath the original text so it looks like a shadow effect.