A walkthrough to check your Instagram Highlights Views count

Highlights on Instagram

Highlights on Instagram are analogous to Stories but unlike Stories that vanish after 24 hours, Highlights are pinned to your profile permanently until you chose to remove or delete them. So, you can easily find if it has been viewed by your followers or not. However, Instagram Highlights Views are available for 48 hours only. Thereafter, those stats are gone forever. That brings us to an important question – How to find out if anyone has viewed your Highlights or not? Well, here’s a walkthrough of that process.

How to check your Instagram Highlights Views count

Instagram Highlights offer an easy and convenient way to group your Instagram Stories into highlights and feature them on your profile. You can even edit these highlights periodically to keep them fresh and find the record of all those profiles that have viewed your Highlights in the viewers’ list. Continue reading further to know how to check your Instagram Highlights Views count

Launch the Instagram app and tap Your story icon visible in the upper-left corner of the app screen.

Your Story Icon
Your Story Icon

Select a video or an image from your image gallery and tap the Your story button.

Your Story tab
Your Story tab

When posted, a Highlight icon should appear as shown in the image below. Tap it to go to a new screen.

Highlight Icon heart shaped
Highlight Icon heart shaped

Hit the New button to add the posted image or video to the highlights.

New Button
New Button

Select a cover for your highlight and give it a name. Hit the Add button.

New highlight
New highlight

You’ll see a message reading Added to highlights. Tap the Done button to remove the message from the screen.

Added to highlight
Added to highlight

Once you finish, your highlight will appear as a circle on your profile and will play as a stand-alone story when someone taps it.

Highlight as stand-alone story
Highlight as stand-alone story

To see how many views your Instagram highlights have generated, tap the highlight that appears in a new section on your profile below your bio. Then, hit the Activity label at the bottom of the screen to find the list of all people that have viewed your highlight.

Instagram Highlights Views Count
Instagram Highlights Views Count

Note: You can choose any stories from your archive to add as a highlight.