How to Change an Instagram Spotlight Cover Without Posting in Stories | Social networks

Instagram lets you cover Highlights with images from your mobile gallery. The function eliminates the need to publish photos or custom artwork in the Stories just to illustrate the highlights, a procedure that is common among users. The cover serves to identify the content of the stories saved in the profile and can be changed individually by the Highlights edit settings. Here's how to change the cover of an Instagram spotlight and upload a photo from the gallery.

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Instagram lets you use photo gallery to customize cover of the photo Foto: Rodrigo Fernandes / dnetcInstagram lets you use photo gallery to customize cover of the photo Foto: Rodrigo Fernandes / dnetc

Instagram lets you use photo gallery to customize cover of the photo Foto: Rodrigo Fernandes / dnetc

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Step 1. Open the desired highlight and press More in the lower right corner of the screen to open the options menu;

Access the edit settings of an Instagram Spotlight Photo: Reproduction / Rodrigo FernandesAccess the edit settings of an Instagram Spotlight Photo: Reproduction / Rodrigo Fernandes

Access the edit settings of an Instagram Spotlight Photo: Reproduction / Rodrigo Fernandes

Step 2. Select the Edit Highlight option. Then tap Edit Cover;

Editing an Instagram Spotlight Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo FernandesEditing an Instagram Spotlight Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes

Editing an Instagram Spotlight Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes

Step 3. Tap the picture icon that appears at the bottom of the screen to open your phone's photo gallery. Then choose in your files the image to use as the cover. You can resize the image in the top window so that it is centered. Finish Finish;

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Select an image from the gallery to use as an Instagram Featured Cover Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes

Step 4. Tap Finish again on the cover edit page. Also finalize the Finish button in the highlight edition;

Finishing the edits of an Instagram Spotlight Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo FernandesFinishing the edits of an Instagram Spotlight Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes

Finishing the edits of an Instagram Spotlight Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes

Step 5. See the highlight cover on your profile and make sure it is aligned as desired.

Check if the cover of the highlight is correct Photo: Reproduction / Rodrigo FernandesCheck if the cover of the highlight is correct Photo: Reproduction / Rodrigo Fernandes

Check if the cover of the highlight is correct Photo: Reproduction / Rodrigo Fernandes

Ready. Take advantage of the tips to make your Instagram highlights personalized.

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