How To Hide Seen on Instagram Story

The original poster of the story will show a list of people who viewed it.You can learn how to hide your "Seen by" activity using the mobile app.If you've seen a story that you don't want the original poster to know about, you can block that person if the story is visible on their profile page for 24 hours.If that person happens to be a friend that you're following, blocking them will also unfriend and unfollow them, so you will need to redo that after 24 hours.

Step 1: Open your social media accounts.

This app looks like a multi-colored orange, pink, and purple camera icon that you can find on one of your Home screens, in the app drawer, or by searching.

Step 2: You can navigate to the profile of the story.

You might see this story on your Home screen.To continue, tap on the profile of that story.

Step 3: The menu icon is three dots.

Their profile page has it in the top right corner.

Step 4: There's a tap block.

To confirm your action, tap again.If the story disappears from the person's profile, they should be blocked for 24 hours.They will see that you watched their story if you unblock them too early.To get to this person, go to and tap their profile and the three-dot menu.You need to re-friend or follow them if you are friends with them.