How to edit a Story after publishing

After you've published a Story – you want to fix a typo, remove a slide or change text? Instagram has clear limits: some things you can do, others require deleting and re-uploading.

When it's relevant

• Mistake in text or image – Typo, wrong link or wrong image.
• Remove a slide – One slide out of several is wrong or unnecessary.
• Add a slide – You can't add in the middle; only delete and re-upload a new Story with all slides.

What you can and can't do after publishing

1. Can: Delete a slide – Go to your Story (tap the circle on your profile or "Your story"), find the slide, Menu (three dots) > Delete. Other slides stay. Read How to make Stories on Instagram.

2. Can: Delete the whole Story – Menu > Delete all slides (or slide by slide). The Story disappears.

3. Can't: Edit content – You can't change image, video, text, stickers or link after publishing. Solution: delete the slide (or Story), edit in the capture/gallery screen and re-upload.

4. Saving to Highlights – If you want to save a Story to Highlights but made a mistake – update the Highlight: delete the slide from the Highlight or add it only after you've published a corrected version.

Common mistakes

• Looking for "Edit" on a published Story – There's no edit button for content. Only delete or re-upload.
• Deleting the whole Story when you only need one slide – You can delete a single slide; you don't have to delete everything.
• Assuming viewers see the updated version – If you re-upload, it's a new Story. Anyone who saw the old one doesn't get an automatic update.

Summary

After publishing a Story – you can only delete a slide or the whole Story. You can't edit image, video or text. To fix: delete the slide (or Story), edit and re-upload.

Next steps

• How to make Stories on Instagram – Story basics
• How to post Stories only to Close Friends – control who sees
• How to add more than one photo to a Story – slides and gallery