But the thing about a hidden Mention on Instagram is that it becomes invisible both to the viewers and to yourself. So when you hide a Mention on your Instagram Story, you may wonder if there’s a way to reveal and see the Mention again. In this article, we have provided you with all the answers around seeing hidden Instagram Story Mentions, in a clear and concise way.
Can You See Hidden Mentions on Instagram Story?
Yes, you can see hidden Mentions on an Instagram Story. As long as the Story was posted by you, you can see all the Mentions on the Story whether they are hidden or not. However, if the Story was posted by another Instagram user, you may not be able to view their hidden Mentions. There are third-party applications and web services that claim to reveal hidden Mentions on the Instagram Story of other users, but we cannot confirm their authenticity. Preliminary checks showed that these apps and services do not work as advertised. For this article, we are only looking at seeing hidden Mentions on your own Instagram Story. It is very easy to do this as long as you still have access to the Instagram Story. You may remember that Instagram Stories disappear after 24 hours. When this 24-hour period elapses, you will no longer be able to view the Story or the Mentions in the Story. You can only continue to reveal the Mentions in the Story if you move the Story to Highlights. There are two ways to move an Instagram Story to highlights as detailed below. By active Instagram Story, we mean a Story that you created within the past 24 hours: B. Create an Instagram Highlight from archived Stories After adding the Story to highlights, the Story will remain visible to you forever and you can always go ahead to check for hidden Mentions in the Story
How to See Hidden Mentions on Instagram Story
Hiding a Mention only effectively hides that Mention from the viewers of your Story and not from yourself. If you want to see the hidden Mentions, you could still do that following the steps below: As we explained earlier, when you Mention someone in your Instagram Story, they will receive a direct message from you with a preview of the Instagram Story that you Mentioned them in. Even if the Mention was hidden, they would still receive the notification.
If you Mention someone that follows you in your Instagram story, they will get a direct message from you that includes a preview of your Story. If you Mention someone that does not follow you in your Instagram Story, it’ll appear in their inbox as a message request.
Hiding Mentions
We have seen that there is a bit of confusion around how to hide Mentions in an Instagram Story. At this point, we would like to make it clear that there are no third-party apps that you can use to automatically hide Instagram Stories, nor is there a setting that you can use on Instagram to hide Mentions in your Stories. You can only hide a Mention on an Instagram Story directly on the Story itself. There are two ways to achieve this, which include: Or By doing this you have successfully hidden the Mention from the view of anyone watching your Story Or
