WEBVTT - Instagram Stories Tips & Tricks

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<v Speaker 1>Instagram Stories turns too. Here are some tips and tricks

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<v Speaker 1>to take your story posts to the next level. What's

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<v Speaker 1>going on. I'm rich Demiro. This is rich on Tech.

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<v Speaker 1>If you can believe it. Instagram Stories has been around

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<v Speaker 1>now for two years. The service celebrated its second birthday

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<v Speaker 1>on August second. How appropriate. What started out is a

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<v Speaker 1>Snapchat copycat has turned into the way to share quick

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<v Speaker 1>little posts online. I love it. A lot of folks

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<v Speaker 1>love using this, and it's because it's a lot of fun.

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<v Speaker 1>Instagram says there are more than four hundred million people

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<v Speaker 1>using the feature every day. To me, the popularity is threefold.

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<v Speaker 1>First Off, when it came out, everyone was already on Instagram,

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<v Speaker 1>so it was super easy to start using it compared

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<v Speaker 1>to signing up with a new account on Snapchat. And

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<v Speaker 1>even if you didn't post, you can still check and

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<v Speaker 1>see what your friends were posting. Then of course you

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<v Speaker 1>eventually would use it. Second, Instagram lets you get super

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<v Speaker 1>creative with your posts. There are so many ways to

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<v Speaker 1>craft your posts. You can include text, videos, jiffs, music,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever you want. And Third, Instagram keeps adding new tools

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<v Speaker 1>that you can continue to have fun with. They just

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<v Speaker 1>added that new music feature the questions feature, or of course,

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<v Speaker 1>the poll feature. Now, there is one new feature that

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<v Speaker 1>not everyone will appreciate, and this is just in the

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<v Speaker 1>Instagram app at large. It's called Activity Status. This basically

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<v Speaker 1>tells your friends when you are actively using the app,

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<v Speaker 1>or they can see the last time that you check

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<v Speaker 1>the app. Now, some people might like this, others might not.

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<v Speaker 1>The idea is that if you know when your friends

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<v Speaker 1>are online, you'll interact with them in more ways, like

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<v Speaker 1>sending a message or a direct photo. But if you

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<v Speaker 1>don't want to do this, let me tell you how

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<v Speaker 1>to turn it off. On iOS. You open Instagram, you

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<v Speaker 1>go to your profile page by tapping the little person

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<v Speaker 1>icon in the lower right hand corner of your screen. Then,

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<v Speaker 1>once you're on your profile page, tap the gear icon

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<v Speaker 1>which is near the upper right of the screen. Next

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<v Speaker 1>year edit profile button. This will take you to the

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<v Speaker 1>options page. Scroll down to the section labeled Privacy and

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<v Speaker 1>Security and tap wort says activity status. You can toggle

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<v Speaker 1>the switch next to show activity status to turn it

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<v Speaker 1>on or off. Now, if you're on Android, the instructions

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<v Speaker 1>are slightly different. You open Instagram, then you go to

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<v Speaker 1>your profile page by tapping the little person icon in

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<v Speaker 1>the upper right hand corner of your screen. Once you're

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<v Speaker 1>on your profile page, tap the three little dots in

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<v Speaker 1>the upper right hand corner of your screen to take

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<v Speaker 1>you to the settings page. Scroll down to the section

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<v Speaker 1>labeled Privacy and Security. Then tap where it says activity Status.

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<v Speaker 1>Toggle the switch next to show activity status. Now. When

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<v Speaker 1>this is lit up, that means it's on and it

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<v Speaker 1>will show all of your friends and anyone that you

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<v Speaker 1>message when you're online and the last time that you

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<v Speaker 1>check the app. You'll also see this information if your

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<v Speaker 1>friends have this feature turned on. Now, if you do

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<v Speaker 1>turn activity status off, your activity details will not be

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<v Speaker 1>shared with your friends, but you also won't be able

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<v Speaker 1>to see their activity detail status. Get it, It's a

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<v Speaker 1>two way street. Instagram wants to make sure that you

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<v Speaker 1>have the feature turn on so that you can access

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<v Speaker 1>the data from your friends, so keep that in mind

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<v Speaker 1>if you turn it off. Okay, now time for some

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<v Speaker 1>tips and tricks to take your Instagram stories to the

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<v Speaker 1>next level. First off, if you're posting a picture over

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<v Speaker 1>twenty four hours old, you'll notice that Instagram automatically includes

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<v Speaker 1>a date on the screen that you took the picture.

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<v Speaker 1>If you don't want that. All you have to do

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<v Speaker 1>is tap and drag it into the little trash can

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<v Speaker 1>that appears at the bottom of your screen. If you're

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<v Speaker 1>recording a video and you want to zoom in, well,

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<v Speaker 1>all you have to do is press and hold that

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<v Speaker 1>little recorder, then slide your finger up or down the screen. Yep,

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<v Speaker 1>zooms in or out. If you're using the hands free

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<v Speaker 1>recording option, which I often do, all you have to

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<v Speaker 1>do is pinch on the screen to zoom in or out,

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<v Speaker 1>just like you would if you're looking at a photo

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<v Speaker 1>on iPhone or Android, to zoom in or out for

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<v Speaker 1>a closer look. Now here's a fun tip. I call

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<v Speaker 1>it the eraser effect. First, take a picture, then tap

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<v Speaker 1>the penn icon. Now, normally you would doodle or write

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<v Speaker 1>something on the screen, but instead of doing that, choose

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<v Speaker 1>a color first and then tap and hold the screen.

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<v Speaker 1>You'll notice the entire screen will fill up with that color.

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<v Speaker 1>But here's the fun part. Now, tap the eraser at

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<v Speaker 1>the top of the screen and you can create a

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<v Speaker 1>cool see through effect. Wherever you erase on your screen,

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<v Speaker 1>Basically where you're erasing the color, you'll start to see

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<v Speaker 1>your photo right through it. So think scratch off lottery ticket.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a really fun on. This next tip is similar,

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<v Speaker 1>but instead of filling your screen with a solid color,

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<v Speaker 1>you can fill it with a see through color. First,

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<v Speaker 1>take a photo, then tap the highlighter tool. Now choose

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<v Speaker 1>a color, then tap and hold like you did before,

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<v Speaker 1>and the color will fill the screen, but this time

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<v Speaker 1>it'll be a sea through color. You'll still be able

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<v Speaker 1>to see your photo behind the color. Now, when it

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<v Speaker 1>comes to those stickers, you can have a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>fun with those. But what you might not know is

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<v Speaker 1>that you're not necessarily limited to just one design. So

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<v Speaker 1>after you drag a sticker onto your story, tap it

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<v Speaker 1>and most of the time you're going to see it

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<v Speaker 1>appear in a bunch of different styles, so you can

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<v Speaker 1>just cycle through those and stop it the one you want.

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<v Speaker 1>And finally, if you ever wondered how your friends get

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<v Speaker 1>a sticker to sort of stick to an object on screen,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, follow the action, Well, it's called pinning. You

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<v Speaker 1>have to pin it. So first capture some movement, then

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<v Speaker 1>choose a sticker. Now tap and hold the sticker to

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<v Speaker 1>bring up a special menu that lets you pin it.

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<v Speaker 1>You'll see a slider you slide to see the object

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<v Speaker 1>that you want to pin your sticker to just place

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<v Speaker 1>it on top of that object, So drag it and

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<v Speaker 1>kind of leave it there. Then you can adjust the size. Finally,

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<v Speaker 1>tap where it says pin. Now, when your story video

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<v Speaker 1>starts moving again, you'll notice that the sticker will follow

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<v Speaker 1>the action. How cool is that. There you have it.

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<v Speaker 1>Now that you've got some new tricks to try out,

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<v Speaker 1>I want to see them in action, tag me in

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<v Speaker 1>your next creative Instagram story and I will share some

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<v Speaker 1>of your posts on my stories to my followers. Just

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<v Speaker 1>find me on Instagram. I am at rich on Tech.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks so much for listening. If you want to see

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<v Speaker 1>a video of these tips, just go to my website.

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<v Speaker 1>It is Richontech dot tv. I'm Richdemiro. I'll talk to

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<v Speaker 1>you real soon.