Mute is a useful way to discreetly remove someone’s activity from your Instagram feed without telling that person. When you mute someone, you can mute their messages, stories, or both without unfollowing them. But if you’ve muted someone’s story in the past, or muted someone by mistake, use these methods to turn them on.
3 Ways to Enable Someone’s Instagram Story
You can use these methods to enable and display someone’s stories and posts. Additionally, these methods can also be used to disable posts and stories from people you no longer want to follow:
- Turn on the sound of the story by directly going to the person’s IG profile
- Use Instagram Settings to Enable Someone’s Story or IG Posts or Both
- Enable story audio from the Stories section of the Instagram news feed
1. Turn on the sound of the story by directly going to the person’s IG profile.
If you want to unmute the story or messages of someone you follow, you can directly go to their profile and use the unmute options to do so. But this method only works if you remember the person’s name or username. Follow these steps:
- Launch the Instagram app.
- Click the Explore button (magnifying glass icon) at the bottom of the screen.
- Enter the name of the Instagram profile whose stories you want to include.
- Once you’re on the person’s Instagram account profile page, click the Follow button.
- A list of options will open. Select Mute.
- Turn off the switch next to Stories.
- If you have muted their messages, you can also enable them from here.
If you don’t remember the name of the Instagram account whose stories you have disabled that you want to enable, follow these 2 methods.
2. Use Instagram Settings to Enable Someone’s Story or IG Posts or Both
We usually don’t remember the exact name or username of Instagram accounts. So if you can’t remember the name of the person you want to include, don’t worry. You can also unmute their stories without having to remember their name.
You can go to Instagram settings and disabled accounts to see which people you have disabled, then select the account whose stories you want to enable. Follow below:
- Open the Instagram app on your iPhone or Android device.
- Click on your profile picture in the lower right corner of the screen.
- Select the hamburger icon in the top right corner on the next screen.
- Select “Settings”from the list.
- From the “Settings”menu, select “Privacy”.
- Swipe down and select Ignored Accounts.
- You will find a list of Instagram accounts that you have muted. Tap the account whose history you want to enable.
- You will be taken to your account profile.
- Tap Subscriptions.
- Select “Mute”from the list that appears.
- You will see that the Stories toggle will be enabled, which means its stories are disabled. Tap the switch to turn it off.
3. Turn on the sound of the story from the “Stories”section in the Instagram news feed.
A faster way to unmute someone’s story is to use the story feed at the top of your Instagram feed screen. Instagram stores even muted stories at the far right end of the stories section.
So, if you swipe right to the bottom of the list of stories, you will find stories about disabled accounts. Thus, you can turn on the sound of stories by finding the account for which you want to turn on the sound of stories.
- Open Instagram.
- In the news feed, swipe left on the news feed and scroll to the end.
- There you will see muted stories.
- Find the Instagram account story you want to disable and press and hold on it.
- It will show a small list. Tap Enable History.
This method is useful for accounts that don’t have too many people following them. They can swipe to the right and find muted stories. But if you follow a lot of profiles and the story panel seems endless, finding the story you want to include can be tricky.
What’s more, you may have many accounts or stories disabled, so it can be difficult to identify the account for which you want to enable story muting. You may have a hard time finding an account if you don’t remember the person’s profile picture. So, to avoid problems, use method 2.
Conclusion
Turning on muting people’s stories on Instagram is very simple. You can turn on the sound of a person’s story in the stories panel in the news feed by going to the person’s profile or in the Instagram settings.
FAQ
How do you include someone’s story if they haven’t posted?
Follow these steps to unmute someone’s story if they haven’t posted yet:- Open the Instagram app and tap your profile picture in the bottom right.- Select the hamburger icon in the top right.- Select Settings.- From the menu Select “Privacy”from the settings menu. Select Disabled Accounts. Select the account whose history you want to include. On their profile, click Subscriptions. Select Mute. Turn off Stories.
How do you turn on friends stories on Instagram?
Open Instagram and go to the far right end of the stories section. You will find the stories of your friends that you have disabled. Tap and hold on the story you want to enable and select Enable Story.
How to uncover someone’s story?
If someone’s story is hidden, it means you’ve muted their story. To display their history, you need to turn it on. Follow these steps:- Tap the magnifying glass icon at the bottom of the screen.- Enter the name of the account whose stories you want to turn on and open their profile.- In their Instagram profile, click “Followings.”- From the list, select “Mute”. Turn off the “History”toggle.
How do you enable someone’s post?
You can unmute someone’s Instagram posts by doing the following: – Tap your profile picture in the bottom right corner. – Tap the hamburger icon (three horizontal lines) in the top right corner. – Select “Settings”. – Select “Privacy”. – Select Ignored Accounts from the privacy menu. – In the list of hidden accounts, touch the name to open their profile. – On their Instagram profile, click Follows. – Select “Ignore”from the list. – Toggle off the “Messages” switch.