How to Tag Someone on Instagram Story?

Did you know you can tag someone on Instagram Story? It is good to tag someone when your story has photos or videos relevant to someone. Tagging someone adds that user’s name on the story and the other viewing the story can tap and view the tagged user’s profile and if they feel they can follow them.

Even the tagged person gets a notification informing them that you have tagged them on your Instagram story. At a time, Instagram allows you to tag 10 persons to a single photo or video. Well, the tagged person user name would appear on your Instagram story with an underline.

In this context, we will discuss the method of tagging someone on Instagram Story. We will be discussing two methods to do the same.

1. Using Text
2. Using Mention Sticker

Steps to Tag Someone on Instagram Story:

Method 1: Using Text

Step 1: Launch the Instagram on your app by tapping on it.

Step 2: Tap on the camera icon to top left corner of the screen or tap on Your story icon to get the story editor.

Step 3: Select photos or videos from your device or you can instantly click a photo or record a video for your story.

Step 4: Tap on the add text icon ‘Aa’ at the top of the screen as you can see in the image below:

Step 5: First type ‘@’and then in continuation type the username of the person you want to tag. As soon as you would type the first alphabet after @ you would get a prediction list predicting the usernames you want to tag. You can select from there if your desired username is in the list.

Step 6: The tagged user name would appear as underlined and you can add colour using the coloured circular icons at the bottom of the usernames.

Step 7: Now to post the story with the tags tap on Your story Icon at the left bottom corner of the screen or you can tap on ‘Send to‘ button at right bottom corner and share your story.

Method 2: Using Mention Sticker

Follow the first three steps of method 1 to get to the story editor.

Step 4: After you select the photo or video for your story tap on the Sticker icon at the top of the screen.

Step 5: From the displayed stickers tap on ‘@MENTION’ sticker.

Step 6: Start typing the user name you want to tag in continuation after ‘@’.

Step 7: When you finish tagging the user, tap on Your story icon or on Send to button present at the bottom of the screen.

Step 8: Tap the Share button beside Your story to share the story.

So, these are the steps to tag someone on Instagram story. Hope the content is useful. Keep reading.