We have no doubt that your profile is rich in informative, engaging, and aesthetically pleasing material. It’s more likely to be dispersed all across the page, though. Instagram guides facilitate the categorization. In this piece, we’ll show you how to make one with this function. In the end, you’ll have another tool at your disposal for categorising your content.
Making an Instagram How-To Guide
Articles that you compile into a guide are meant to aid readers in navigating your site. Instagram allows users to publish guides on a variety of topics. Like Pinterest boards, these can showcase a variety of your work or products.
A professional Instagram account is required to make a guide
Instagram guides can only include content that already exists on the platform and has been shared by public accounts. No new media from your mobile device may be uploaded.
Your own Instagram photos and those of other users are fair game. If you use their work in your guide, you should know that they will be informed.
When making a post, you may also include Reels that have been shared from the posts tab. Nothing new may be added to Stories or Highlights.
A user’s tutorials will be available in that section of their profile. If you don’t see that tab, it means the user hasn’t made any guides yet.
Select a book’s cover to open its guide.
More screenshots and examples of Instagram guidelines and how to utilise them are provided at the end of this piece.
Launch Instagram’s editing menu for “guides”
Instagram tutorials can be shared in four distinct ways. The standard practise is to click the plus sign on your user profile.
Use the + sign.
Follow the Guide.
The menu can also be accessed in three other ways:
- Selecting the tab’s “+” button. However, you won’t be able to access it until you’ve published at least one guide.
- Putting together from your Instagram favourites. Select Create Guide from your account’s collections.
- Performing the action on someone else’s page. To find the necessary button, please scroll all the way to the bottom of the list.
Wrap up Instagram how-tos!
When you’ve finished adding content, it’s time to choose a title. You have the option of adding a description and a new cover.
The default cover image is the first photo, video, or post that is uploaded. To swap covers, just tap the button. Photos and videos uploaded to the manual can be selected alongside Instagram posts. The aspect ratio of the cover art is 3:4, so keep that in mind as the photo will need to be cropped. The contents of the guide are unaffected by the cover’s redesign.
Instagram guidelines allow you to remove, add, and rearrange components.
Choose the ellipses by tapping
Select Reorder Posts (Products or Places) to rearrange the order of the list, or select Remove From Guide to eliminate an entry entirely.
To rearrange the list’s contents, just tap the three dots next to the item you want to move and drag it to its new location.
Finished by tapping.
A map icon will appear in the top editing bar if you have Instagram photos with location tags included in your guides. If you tap the icon shown in the first screenshot, you will be sent to a map similar to the one shown in the second. Users can access the map by clicking on the same symbol that appears at the top of the published guide.
Finishing the tasks in your Instagram how-to guides
Each location, item, and update needs its own title. Without them, you can’t publish Instagram tutorials. You can customise the titles that are automatically added to places and items.
Although it is not required, we encourage that you include descriptions for each item in your guidebook. Justify your decision, provide further information about a service or product, and pique the curiosity of your audience by doing so. The maximum number of characters that can be used to describe an item is 2203.
Get your Instagram how-to out there
When you are satisfied that the manual’s layout is how you envisioned it, you can send it to print.
- Select the Next button.
- Make the decision to share.
- To return to the content and make changes before publishing, select the Save as Draught option.
The best way to promote your Instagram tutorials
Instagram tutorials come loaded with options. Promotional opportunities are limited, unfortunately. Your guides are hidden from your followers’ feeds. Furthermore, Instagram advertisements cannot be used to market manuals.
Sharing your own or other people’s tutorials in Stories is a great way to get more people to check them out. Additionally, you can add them to Highlights.
Instagram tutorials are shared in Stories in the following way:
- Gently rap on the paper aeroplane.
- Select Use this as a guidance in your story.
- From the same drop-down, you can also direct message a person with a guide. Select the envelop icon next to the recipient’s username and hit Send.
Instagram instructions can be exported and used in other apps and networks. It’s possible to do so from a guide’s page:
- Click on the dots.
- Select the Sharing button to…
- Pick an app to use.
The Instagram How-To Guide Function
Instagram guides are a great way to organise your material and make it easier for your audience to find specific posts or publications. Several applications for this material are proposed.
Wordy writings. You can compile a guidebook out of a series of Instagram posts that together make up a longread. These pieces could be fiction or informative writing.
Advice and guidance. Make a step-by-step Instagram guide where each entry represents a different post, product, or location. Exhibit your skin care or cosmetics application process. The first, second, and third items on your list might all be blog entries or merchandise, respectively.
A fitness trainer can package many activities into a plan and call it a workout.