We're adding new stickers to Instagram Stories today to provide you additional opportunities to interact with friends about the things that are most important to you. We hope these new tools encourage you to use your imagination with Stories, whether it's sharing your song of the day or making your own personalized stickers from images or videos.
Add Yours Music and Share Your Favorite Songs with Us
The Add Yours Music sticker combines the pleasure of the Add Yours feature with the music sticker functionality. It lets you share a song that matches your mood with your followers, who can also add their own music.
- Tap the stickers icon, then tap on the icon that says “Add Yours Music.”
- Once selected, tap on “+ / Add Music” to select a song from Instagram’s music library.
- Once you post your story, your friends will be able to add their own song using the “Add Yours” button.
Highlight Memories With the Sticker of Frames
The Frames sticker makes every photo into an instant print, perfect for highlighting important moments or remembering times spent with friends. Your followers will need to shake their phone to develop the image in order to see the content inside.
- When creating a story, tap the stickers icon , then tap on the Frames sticker.
- This will open up your photo gallery, where you can select one image to be framed.
- Once you select an image, you can also add a caption if you choose. It will automatically add the date and timestamp of when the photo was taken.
- After you post your story, your friends and followers can shake their phone or tap the “shake to reveal” button to develop the image inside the frame.
Use the Reveal Sticker to Discover Hidden Stories
You can post a secret narrative for your friends and followers to discover by using the Reveal sticker. They can only view the content by direct message (DM) from you.
- When creating a story, tap the stickers icon, then tap on the icon that says Reveal.
- Once you select the Reveal sticker, you will be prompted to type a hint for friends about what they might find behind your blurred story.
- You can tap the “Preview” icon in the bottom left hand corner to see how your story will appear to friends.
- Once you post your story, your friends will only be able to see your story content if they DM you, but don’t worry, you won’t need to approve every DM for your story to be revealed.
Use Your Creativity With Cutouts
Even your most relaxed, everyday moments may become something special to share with your friends when you use the Cutouts sticker. Any video or image on your camera roll can be edited to create a unique sticker that you can use to embellish your reel or story. You may come back to your cuts again and again because after you create them, they are preserved and conveniently accessible in your sticker tray. Even the cutout stickers you made can be saved and used again by others in their reels and stories.
To create a sticker from your camera roll:
- Tap the stickers icon at the top, then tap on the scissors icon that says “Cutouts.”
- Select a photo or video with a clear subject from your gallery.
- A sticker will be automatically generated. If it’s not what you wanted, you can manually select the object you want for your sticker. Note: you can only pick one object.
- Tap the “Use sticker” button to add it to your reel or story.
To create a sticker from photos on Instagram:
- Go to the photo you’d like to transform into a sticker. Note: you’ll only see the option to create a sticker from eligible photos shared by public accounts on Instagram.
- Tap the three dots in the top right of the post.
- Tap Create sticker.