If you noticed over on my Instagram page recently, I finally spent some time and hopped on the bandwagon for Instagram Story Highlights. Instagram has to be my ultimate favorite social media platform. I have loved taking pictures of basically anything and everything over the years and thus, Instagram is my jam! And Instagram has been changing it up recently in all sorts of good ways! I love watching folks from all around the world and their Instastories each morning as I get ready for my day. It showcases what my favorite bloggers are up to and gives me some insight to my friends and family and their past day with just a click on my screen. With the addition of Instagram Story Highlights recently, we can now save our favorite stories to share with friends and followers over and over so they do not disappear after the initial 24 hours which is fabulous! So while messing around on Instagram this past week, I created icons for my highlights and wanted to show you how you can too! It was so easy to create my Instagram Story Highlight icons; I cannot believe I didn't do it sooner.
Creating a custom icon for Instagram Story Highlights is actually super easy. I put it off for a month or two because I couldn't decide how I wanted to organize my story highlights and what exactly I wanted to do with this newer feature. However, I am happy to report that all you need to do is make an image that you want to use as your icon, upload it to your story and select it as your highlight cover.
To create my Instagram Story Highlight Icons, I used an app on my phone called Baby Pics. This app is really new to my phone and so far I'm loving it! Then I selected a background (I found mine on Google), added font and an image, and finally saved it as a picture to my phone.
The hardest part was deciding what kind of categories to create. I decided to go with Marriage, Fitness, Food, Blog, Oils, Ollie Hayes, and Lillie Grey. I feel like these are the ones that I will use the most and would want to save for a later date. I have included most of my images below in this post. Feel free to save them to your phone to use yourself. It may have taken me a maximum of 10 minutes from start to finish! It’s pretty fun and easy to customize Instagram Story Highlight Icons and I love the professional, personal touch they give to my account.
I hope that I have inspired you to organize and play with your account a bit. Please let me know if you do change your icons, I would love to see them!!!
