The worldwide famous social media platform ‘Instagram’ provides you with several tools and features to give you a better user experience while using the application. Instagram gives you the feature to mute someone’s post or stories that you don’t wish to see.
You can simply unfollow them if you don’t know them or you can mute their story or post and unmute again whenever you wish to. It just takes a couple of minutes to mute and unmute someone’s story or posts.
If you have muted someone’s story before and now you want to unmute it or someone’s story not showing on the homepage it might be because you have muted their stories by mistake, there are two methods to unmute Instagram stories. Follow the steps mentioned in both methods carefully.
How to unmute Instagram stories and posts
To unmute an Instagram story follow the steps mentioned below:
Method 1: Unmute someone’s story on Instagram directly from the homepage
Step 1: Open the Instagram app or log in from your web browser on your smartphone.
Step 2: Swipe left the stories of other people till the end on your homepage. Once you reach the end you will see the muted stories with a grey ring around them. Muted stories have a grey ring around them whereas other stories will have a multi-colour ring around them.
Step 3: Long press the muted story that you wish to unmute. After 2-3 seconds a pop-up will appear on the screen of the homepage.
Step 4: Select the unmute option from the pop-up below the screen. To confirm if the story is unmuted, look for the multi-colour ring around the story that you unmuted.
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Method 2: Unmute someone’s story and post on Instagram from the account profile page
If you don’t see the person’s story or posts on the homepage then simply follow these steps to unmute the story or post on Instagram.
Step 1: Open the Instagram app or log in from your web browser on your smartphone.
Step 2: Now go to the search option and type their username to head on to their account profile. You can even open their account profile by clicking on the username if their post appears on the feeds of your homepage.
Step 3: Once you open their profile, tap on the ‘following’ option and a pop-up will appear on the screen.
Step 4: Now tap on the ‘unmute’ option and another pop-up will open giving you the option to unmute the post and story of that person.
Step 5: Swipe the bar on the left side to unmute a post or story or both. To confirm if you have successfully unmuted their story, look for the multi-colour ring around their profile picture on their account profile.
Wrapping Up
These were the two methods to unmute someone’s story and post. Once you unmute someone’s story and posts, their stories will start appearing on the homepage with other stories and also their posts will start appearing on the feeds of your homepage respectively.