While you cannot directly link a regular Instagram grid post (a picture or video on your main profile) to your Instagram Highlights, these features are designed for showcasing your Instagram Stories. Highlights are curated collections of your Stories that appear permanently on your profile page, offering a way to save and categorize your favorite ephemeral content.
Understanding Highlights and Posts
Instagram Highlights are specifically built to save and display past Instagram Stories. A regular post on your profile grid functions differently and does not have a direct feature to be added to a Highlight collection.
Think of it this way:
| Feature | Content Type Linked to Highlights | Direct Linking Possible? |
|---|---|---|
| Highlights | Instagram Stories | Yes |
| Regular Post | N/A (Cannot be added directly) | No |
Adding Instagram Stories to Highlights
The process described for adding content to Highlights applies to your Instagram Stories. Here's how you add a Story to a Highlight, using information from the provided reference:
- Adding a Current Story: If you are viewing a current picture or video that was posted as a Story, you can add the current picture or video to your Highlight by clicking the Highlight icon and selecting one of the existing categories. This is the simplest way to save an active Story to a Highlight.
- Viewing Added Stories: To see which Stories are already included in a specific Highlight or to manage them, you can go to your profile, select your Highlight, and click 'Edit Highlight.' There, under the 'Selected' category, you will see all the Stories that have been already added to your highlight.
It's important to remember that the content being added via these methods, as described, refers specifically to Instagram Stories.
Can Post Content Appear in Highlights?
Although you cannot link a regular post directly, the content from a post could potentially appear in a Highlight if you were to share that regular post to your Instagram Story first. Once it is a Story, you could then add that Story to a Highlight using the methods mentioned above. However, the provided reference focuses solely on adding Stories to Highlights and does not cover the step of sharing a post to a Story.
In summary, the direct way to "link" content to Instagram Highlights is by adding your Instagram Stories, using the methods outlined based on the platform's design and the provided information. Regular grid posts do not have this direct linking capability.
