Uploading several photos to your Instagram stories or posts is a time-saving method that enables and maximizes your involvement with your followers and helps to build overall coherent content. You can add several images to your Instagram Stories or perhaps on your timeline in various ways. For each one of them, we will provide you step-by-step guidance and you, on the other hand, can select any method that suits you best.
Posting Multiple Photos on Your Instagram Story
The Instagram Story feature is amazing because it is temporary and it is kind of more casual than normal Instagram posts that we see. Why not post several pictures at once or make a one-off collage of several pics, if you’re trying to add new ways to show your content on your Instagram stories? It’s extremely easy to publish multiple photos in your Instagram story and it’s a brilliant way to keep the engagement consistent and improve your followers.
Step by Step Guide for Uploading Multiple Photos on Instagram Stories
It takes just a few seconds on Instagram to build a story sequence of many pictures from your picture gallery and allows you to add up to 10 images at a time. Here’s how you can do it:
- Open up your Instagram app.
- On the main screen, you will see a camera icon, tap it and it will open up the stories section.
- On the bottom of the screen, you will see a photo icon, tap it.
- Next, since you have to post multiple photos, you need to choose the multiple photo icon. You can find this right on top of the picture gallery.
- Click on the pictures you want to add; in the order you want them to appear in your stories. When you tap each picture, a number will appear on it, so you know the order.
- Once you have chosen the pictures in the correct order, tap Next to start putting text, music, or stickers to your pictures.
- When you are done with the picture editing, just tap Next.
- Lastly, tap “your story” and the pictures will be shared with your Instagram story in order.
Step by Step Guide for Adding Multiple Picture Stories on Instagram
On Instagram, creating a Story series out of different images from your photo gallery takes just seconds and helps you to upload up to ten images at a time. So, here is another way how to do it:
- Open up your Instagram app.
- On the main screen, you will see a camera icon, tap it and it will open up the stories section.
- Now, tap on the picture icon and this will add the main picture to your Instagram story.
- Next, click the sticker icon which is present at the top of the display.
- Just scroll down till you see the photo sticker, once you do just tap it.
- The second picture will come up on the screen.
- Keep repeating this until all the pictures you need to post appear on the screen.
- Now, drag the pictures all around the screen to place them where you want, upon pinching across the screen the picture size will get smaller. To make the picture bigger, just widen two fingers across the screen.
- Add drawings, text, or music to add magic to your story.
- Lastly, tap “your story” and the pictures will be shared with your Instagram story.
Wondering Why you can’t add Several Photos to “My Story”?
Since the multiple picture option in Stories is still being rolled out around the world, it might not be accessible from where you reside. If you are unable to see the multiple picture button when posting your Stories, first, try updating the Instagram app to the newest version. If the function still does not appear, stay tuned. It will just be a matter of time when Instagram introduces this unique update in your town!
Step by Step Guide for Posting Multiple Pictures as a Collage
Did you guys try using the Instagram Layout? This is a brilliant tool from which you can make collages of your favorite pictures and post them on your Instagram stories. Here is how you can do it:
- Open up your Instagram app.
- Go to Instagram Stories by clicking on the camera button which is present on the top left corner of your screen.
- Tap on the layout icon that is present on the left side of your screen.
- Now, you can scroll and choose the best layout sequence for your collage. The layout sequence will appear above the shutter icon.
- Click the picture icon present in the lower left, now you can choose your favorite pictures to make a collage.
- Once the college is completed, you can add music, text, stickers, and filters from the icon which is present at the top of your screen.
- Lastly, just click on “Your Story” and your picture collage will be shared with your loyal followers.
Of course, there are thousands of other options to create a picture collage on your iPhone, but the Layout is the one that better fits the Instagram app and its standards.
How to make an Instagram Post having Multiple Pictures?
Well, how about posting your daily Instagram post with more than one picture? Luckily, that is, even more, simpler than posting stories.
Step by Step Guide
- Open up your Instagram app.
- Click on the + present at the bottom of your cellphone’s screen, this will create a new post.
- Next, click on the multiple picture button present on top of your photo gallery.
- Select the photographs that you want to use in your Instagram post. The pictures will be numbered in the order in which you choose them (which is the order in which they will appear in your post).
- Tap next when you are done with the picture selection.
- On the next screen, you can add filters or edit each picture one by one.
- Now, add your creative captions, put in some hashtags, tag your favorite accounts and enter the location.
- Lastly, click on the share button and your post will be shared with the world within seconds.
How do I Share Multiple Pictures without having to Crop them?
For quite some time, you could only add different images if they matched the Insta-famous square format. Now, Instagram no longer allows square images when posting multiple photos. The catch is that all of the images should be rendered in quite the same aspect ratio as the first picture that you select:
- Open up your Instagram app.
- Click on the + present at the bottom of your cellphone’s screen, this will create a new post.
- Select your first image: it might be horizontal, vertical, or square – depends upon your choice.
- Now, just select all the pictures consecutively that you need to share.
- You can use your finger to move the cropped picture around the screen till you find the best position.
- Now, add your creative captions, put in some hashtags, tag your favorite accounts and enter the location.
- Lastly, click on the Share button to share your post within seconds.
Can we add more Pictures to our Old Instagram Posts?
Sadly, you can’t add more images to an Instagram post that has already been made and released. Your only choice is to remove the original post and replace it with the new photos.
Final Verdict
Once you’ve mastered posting several images to your Instagram posts and Stories, you’ll discover that it’s a great way to spice up your account, share a joke, or build a pattern within your posts.
