Can you tell when a user with a private account has viewed your public instagram story

Instagram has lots of cool features beyond its photo filters and hashtags. But can you see who views your Instagram profile? Here's the answer.

Scrolling through Instagram can be good inspiration for everything from selfie captions to fashion choices thanks to friends, family, and influencers with likable photos. You might even be that inspiration for someone else. Whether people view your profile out of nosiness or admiration, is it possible to see who views your Instagram profile?

Can you see who views your Instagram profile?

Instagram doesn’t allow users to see who views their profile. So if you look through someone’s profile and don’t like or comment on a post, there’s no way for them to know who sees the pictures. “Similar to Facebook, users are unable to see who has viewed their profiles regardless of the type of profile they own: personal, business, or creator,” says Reggie Azevedo Filho, who works for the social media management platform Traject Social (here’s how to block someone on Facebook Messenger, by the way). This goes for both users with accounts and people without accounts who use the web to browse Instagram publicly. Instagram Business accounts will display stats about the volume of traffic but doesn’t show specific profile information, according to Alex Heid, Chief Research and Development Officer at SecurityScorecard. Business accounts specifically show the number of who people visited your profile in the past seven days, or how many people saw your posts in their feed, according to an Instagram representative. Here’s what it means to restrict someone on Instagram.

How to see who views your Instagram stories

If you share more Instagram stories than posts, you’ll have better luck finding out who’s viewing your content. Users who view stories appear in a “viewers list” for 24 hours after the story is live for the original poster to see. “This grants you insights into the specific audience members who have viewed your photo, video, or story post for the same period of time your post is active,” Azevedo says. After 24 hours, the list disappears, but if you save your stories, you can still see the number of people who saw them (and who). You must be logged in to see this information. By the way, here’s how to see who unfollows you on Facebook.

Is there a third-party app that lets me see who views my Instagram profile?

Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012, so there’s some overlap in privacy settings. So, like Facebook, no third-party apps will tell you who looks at your Instagram profile. “Anything advertising a feature that shows who viewed your profile would not be a legitimate service and should be avoided as it is likely just an app that is there to collect data for those who use it,” Heid says. There’s no indication that Instagram will ever decide to allow users to see who views their profile. Next, learn how to tell if someone blocked you on Instagram.

Sources:

• Reggie Azevedo Filho, social media management platform Traject Social
• Alex Heid, Chief Research and Development officer at SecurityScorecard

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Users add posts and Stories to their Instagram profiles not always for fun. Sometimes they want to share interesting moments and discoveries with their subscribers, or know their opinion on a subject. Of course, users want to be aware whether their relatives and friends watch their content, and whether there is a stalker keeping incognito. You can see who views your Instagram Story using the list of viewers. There you’ll get answers to all the questions above.

You can see who viewed your Instagram Stories, who reacted, and many more. The network tells you about almost every interaction with your content. Probably, the only exception is that they can screenshot your IG Stories without you knowing.

When you open one of your Instagram Stories, you can see who viewed it. There is a list of viewers and the Insights tab. If 24 hours since it was published haven’t passed, you can look at this information from your profile page. 

To see the list of the viewers: 

1. Open a Story.
2. Tap the users icons.
3. Switch to the tab with an eye icon.

There you see a list of people who viewed your Stories on Instagram. By tapping a profile photo, you can get to the viewer’s page.

You can get the list of the people who look at your Instagram Story if you use a computer. But there is no Insights' tab, there are only usernames. 

Here is how you can see who viewed your Insta Stories:

1. Open a Story. 
2. Tap the users’ icons.

You can tell who viewed your Instagram Story even if it has disappeared from your profile page. The list of viewers is available in your account for 48 hours since the content was published.

Stories go to Instagram Archive automatically after 24 hours since they were posted. Go there when the photo or video has disappeared from your profile to see the list of viewers. Note that you won’t find Stories that you deleted manually there. 

Here is how you can see the list of viewers in Instagram Archive: 

1. Open account settings. 
2. Choose Archive. 
3. Tap the menu.
4. Choose Stories Archive. 
5. Tap a Story. 
6. Tap the list of viewers.
7. Switch to the tab with an eye icon.

If there is no Story you need, check your Archive settings. 

Instagram Stories go to the archive only if you haven’t changed the default settings. Check whether the feature works, and turn it on if it doesn’t. 

1. Open your account settings. 
2. Choose Settings. 
3. Open Privacy. 
4. Go to Story. 
5. Tap the button near Save Stories to Archive if it’s gray. If it’s blue, the feature is turned on. 

If your profile is public, people can view your Instagram Stories anonymously, you will never know who they are.

Instagram Stories stalkers do it using online Instagram savers or viewers. People don’t have to authorize their IG accounts on such websites. So you will never know who saw your Instagram Story. Their username won't appear on the viewers list.

If you don’t want Instagram stalkers to watch your profile anonymously, make it private. Unfortunately, it will also disallow users to see your posts, Reels, IGTV if they are not following you. 

Now you know how to see who viewed your Instagram Story even when it disappears from your profile page. Open the list of viewers of a Story in the app or on the website using a computer. Go to the Archive to see the views of a disappeared Story, it’s available only in the app. 

If you can't see who watched your Instagram Story, nobody has viewed it yet. If you can't find a Story in Archive, check the auto-save settings.

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