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How to Upload Instagram Stories from Your Gallery and Camera Roll?

Earlier this month Instagram launched it’s new feature Stories. I did share a tutorial to create Instagram Stories. This article is a result of one of those queries which users asks us via our Contact form, Social Media or personal accounts of our Editors. There was a similar question a user requested me to answer on Quora about “How can I add Instagram stories from Gallery or Camera roll?” and hence I come up with a solution to add photos and videos in Instagram story from smartphone’s Gallery.
you might wish to upload a photo from your iPhone Camera roll or Android Gallery because that was one of the best shots you took in the last 24 hours at least. Or you weren’t able to access Instagram when that moment was happening. Or you couldn’t find a good filter in Instagram stories default filters. For such situations, Instagram does allow you to post photos and videos from your smartphone’s gallery to your Stories. Here’s how.

Instagram Stories are meant to share the times of your day immediately. After understanding the Stories feature, some users discovered the tricks to put a story on Instagram from Gallery or Camera Roll. Let’s see how these Instagrammers manage to do that.

How to Add Photos or Videos to Instagram from your phone?

Since Stories are all about sharing the moment of your day, Instagram used to let  you add photos that you took within the last 24 hours. But now, you can choose from older photos and videos and switch between your phone’s folders to choose your desired photo or video. 

To add pictures/videos from Gallery or camera roll to Instagram Stories:

  1. Open Instagram and tap on the camera icon on the top left corner of the screen.

2. Instead of taking a photo or video, swipe up on the screen to bring out your camera roll photos and videos.

3. Select the picture or video and tap “your story” on the bottom to add it to your story.

Can’t upload video to Instagram story

So many users reported that the can’t upload video to Instagram story in the past year, and it is not only you facing this issue. 

Many users face this problem while trying to upload a video to their Instagram stories. No matter how many times they hit the retry button, it will show the same error to them. In :”Fix Can’t Upload Video To Instagram Stories” we have gathered all the ways why this issue happens and all the solutions to try  to fix this Instagram problem now. 

To wrap up

That’s all you have to do about it. It is definitely not complicated, but not entirely obvious either. What do you think about stories after all? Share your opinions in the comments below.

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