How to Hide Stories from specific people on Instagram

To be honest, sometimes you just don’t wanna share everything with everyone on Instagram.
By the way, the app actually gives you some really easy ways to control who sees your stories.

Let’s walk through the easiest working tips 👇

🙈 Hide Story From Specific People

Honestly speaking, this is the most useful feature if you just wanna block a few people from seeing your story.

Steps:

• Go to your Profile
• Tap the ☰ menu (top right)
• Open Settings & Privacy
• Tap Story & Live
• Select Hide story from
• Choose people you wanna hide from

Steps By Screenshot

1. Go to your Profile and Tap the ☰ menu (top right)

2. You will see Setting And Activity

3. Tap Story & Live

4. Select Hide story from

5. Choose people you wanna hide from

One more thing — they won’t even know you hide your story. Pretty smooth, right?

👥 Use Close Friends (Smart Sharing Trick

To be real with you, this is the best option if you only wanna share with your inner circle.

How it works:

• Go to your profile → ☰ → Close Friends
• Add only trusted people
• When posting a story, choose Close Friends

By the way, your story will show with a green circle, so only selected people see it.

🔕 Quick Trick: Control Interactions

Before I forget, you can also limit how people interact with your story.

Do this:

• Go to Story settings
• Turn off Replies or restrict messages

Honestly, this doesn’t fully hide your story, but it keeps things low-key.

🚫 Block (Last Option)

Okay, not gonna lie, this one’s a bit extreme.

• Open the person’s profile
• Tap … → Block

Now they can’t see anything — not your stories, not your profile.

⚡ Final Thoughts

To be honest, if you just wanna hide from a few people, use “Hide story from”.
If you wanna share privately, go with Close Friends.

Oh, and one more thing — mix both methods if you really care about privacy.