Hasnain Cheema
Are you interested in keeping your friends and family in a loop by tagging them on your Instagram Story, but how? Don’t worry I’ll show you how to tag someone on Instagram story with built-in features.
Probably, Instagram is the most used social media app in the world with millions of daily users including celebs. So stories are the biggest feature of Instagram that is being published your post within 24 hours and it’s a great way to show your daily updates without sending or uploading a proper post on your account.
Eventually, you may see other people’s stories they tag people on their story posts, whether showing someone’s name or without showing. So how to do the same thing, let’s go through in this article.
How to Tag Someone on Instagram Story Quickly?
| Go to the Instagram app > Tap on ‘Your Story’ > Choose the image > Click on the ‘Sticker’ icon from the top screen and choose ‘@mention’ > Type the person’s account name after @ and select the profile > Set the Position and size by dragging and pinching sticker > For adding more persons repeat the Steps. |
How to Tag Someone on Instagram Story [7 Steps]
Step #1. Go to the Instagram App
Open your Instagram application from your device. You can open it from your social media folders or Home screen.
Step #2. Tap on ‘Your Story’ Icon
Click on the Your Story icon from the top of the screen.
Step #3. Choose the uploading Image
You can upload images from the Instagram camera roll or upload from a mobile device that you want to put on your story.
Step #4. Tap on the ‘Sticker’ Option
After selecting the image, click on the sticker icon from the top of the screen and select the ‘@mention’ option from the stickers.
Step #5. Tag Someone’s profile
Drag the @mention sticker on the screen and start typing the account name of the person you want to tag. Make sure don’t add the space between @ and name when tagging someone. For example @XYZ.
Step #6. Set the position (optional)
You can set the Position and size by dragging and pinching the sticker. Moreover, Instagram allows you to tag more than 10 persons at a time as compared to other social media platforms.
How to Tag Someone on Instagram story without showing Their Name?
Method # 1. Reduce the size of the sticker
You can hide the tag person’s name by shrinking the size, holding it with two fingers, and reducing the size until it looks like a dot and dragging it on the white spot in the image.
Method # 2. Swipe it out from the image borders
You can instead hide it by swiping. Just hold the tag name and drag it out from the image border until it’s no longer visible on your image. It may not be done on the first attempt you need to do some practice.
You may stick the tail of the username on the border, so you just need to do some practice and move it slowly until the tag person’s name despairing.
Method # 3. Hide the Tag with stickers
Another y to hide a tag person’s name is, by using Location, animation, or music elements. So first mention the person’s name and set the position.
Now again tap on the sticker icon and select a solid background sticker. Put it on the User name in which style you want.
Method # 4. Blend the User name color with the Background
With the help of a color picker, you can change the user name color according to the background. Therefore, it is the best way to hide a username instead of putting stickers on it.
Though, tag someone on your story and click on the color picker from the color wheel. Drag it on the background color which is you want to match. After that drag it on the matching color and click on done. Your Tag Person account will be hidden.
Method # 5. Hide Tag name with Another Post
Instead of using Sticker or color picker, you can hide the tag person’s name by uploading a post on Instagram. After adding a tag person drag the post and put it on the tag person’s name, your user name will be hidden successfully.
FAQs:
Q. How do you tag someone in a story with it showing?
- Tag someone on your story and click on the color picker from the color wheel.
- Drag it on the background color which is you want to match.
- After that drag it on the matching color and click on done.
- Your Tag Person account will be hidden.
Q. How to tag someone on Instagram?
- Go to the Instagram app
- Tap on ‘Your Story’.
- Choose the image
- Click on the ‘Sticker’ icon from the top screen and choose ‘@mention’
- Type the person’s account name after @ and select the profile
- Set the Position and size by dragging and pinching the sticker
- For adding more persons repeat the Steps.
Q. Why can’t I tag someone on the Instagram story after posting?
To tag someone, add text, images, or other changes to your posted story you need to delete it and repost it. That means you cannot edit your story after posting it.
Q. When Should You Tag Someone in an Instagram Post?
Make sure don’t tag someone to get their attention. They can discourage you and you can go into the spam of flagged accounts that may hurt you and you will lose your chance to make a successful account on Instagram. So always tag brands and those peoples who promote your account.
EndNote
Hopefully, you will get the answer to your question with the help of the above-mentioned ways. Therefore, you can hide someone’s name by adding, stickers, color tools, text, and images without knowing other users. However, if you want to tag someone after posting the story, you can’t do it until reposting your story.
