How to Get Back a Deleted Story on Instagram?

Instagram is one of the most popular and easiest to use free photo sharing and social media applications that allow users to take photos, apply digital filters and share them with other Instagram users. The number of active users is near 1.2 billion daily, almost 28 percent of internet users all over the world. The giant social media platform was founded in 2010 by Mr. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger later acquired by Facebook in 2012. Instagram allows users to upload photos and videos that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. That’s why users love it day by day.

You have up to 30 Days to Restore Your Deleted Story on Instagram

You might have accidentally deleted or someone else has deleted your Instagram story. Don't get too worried it’s not gone forever. It’s possible to get back and it’s easy. You can easily retrieve your deleted story. If you have deleted a story (photo or video) and it’s been 30 days since-deleted story so no one can get that back. You have to contact the Instagram team directly and it’s very difficult to get that back. But if it’s not more than 30 days to delete a story on Instagram, there is a method to get back the deleted stories. Just follow the steps in this article and you'll be able to retrieve your deleted story in no time:

These days reels are in trend and if a reel gets deleted then it becomes intense because it took so much time and effort to make some reels on Instagram.

Step 1. Tap on the profile icon.

Step 2. Tap on the three lines above.

Step 3. Then tap on “Your Activity”

Step 4. Please scroll down a bit more and you will find the “Recently delete” option, just tap on it. If you can’t able to find the “Recently delete” option then please follows the steps (Find Recently Delete Option on Your Phone) to available it again on your phone. That post you want to restore, click on that.

Step 5. Click on three dots and then tap on restore.

Step 6. Restore it and from now this photo or video is available on your profile.

Step 7. And for restoring any story, tap on the second option on the right side.

Step 8. Click on it then again tap on three dots and restore.

Some issues happened to others like the video isn’t visible on the profile. As you know there is an option “Hide from profile” while uploading reels. When you delete reels and restore them, the option is turned on by default, that’s why the restored reel appears on only the reel section. But photos and videos are visible on the profile section.

If you tap on one of these stories, you'll be able to view it just as if it had never been deleted. So next time you accidentally delete a story, don't stress.

Find Recently Delete Option on Your Phone

It can be possible that the “Recently delete” option isn’t available on all phones. If you are one of them then don’t worry. It has a basic solution and it’s easy, just follow those processes to available it again.

Step 1. Open your phone lock

Step 2. Go to “settings” on your phone.

Step 3. Then click on “Apps & Notifications”

Step 4. Find and tap on the Instagram icon.

Step 5. Clear app storage and cache and allow all kinds of permissions.

Also, note whether the app is updated and available or not. Go to the Play store and check it for updates and check if the “Recently delete” option is available now.

Some parental tools were already offered to USA Instagram users, and these additions square measure now accessible to those users, too. Outside of the USA, the tools begin rolling out this month to users in the UK, Japan, Australia, Ireland, Canada, France, and Germany. Meta plans are to expand this to all users worldwide by the end of the year.