Seeing an account’s Instagram stories without it seeming that we have seen them is not something that can be done normally on the social network. However, this does not mean that it is impossible. exist multiple ways to view stories without leaving a tracealthough we have already warned you that they have certain limitations.
At best, if the account you want to view is open to the public, there are even ways to download the stories. For private accounts, it’s a little more difficult, although still possible. And all with methods similar to those we use to read WhatsApp without leaving a trace.
If the account is open, a website may be the solution
There are web pages capable of view content from public Instagram accounts, including of course the “stories”. Some even offer the possibility of downloading the stories in image or video, but you must meet the condition of having an open account, since with private accounts this doesn’t always work.
One of them is Insanony, a website where Just enter the username or url in the search field. After that, the content available even for download will appear. And without a trace, of course, since we didn’t even create our own user account.
The airplane mode trick isn’t perfect, but it works
If we see an Instagram story without an Internet connection via Wi-Fi or mobile data, the application will have no way of recording on its servers that we have seen this content and therefore the other person will not know that we have seen it. we saw. The best way to remove these connections is to enable airplane mode, although You will need to open the account profile first (it doesn’t matter if it’s public or private) to preload the results.
Once we have done this, we can activate airplane mode and click on the corresponding profile photo to see the “stories”. This, yes, most of the time you don’t see more than the first and second floorssince the rest of the content must be loaded and for this we need the Internet (which we cannot do if we do not want to leave a trace).
Once you see it, it’s practical close the app completely. When we get into this story, we will see that the “stories” are always marked as invisible, a sign that the other person does not know that we have seen them either. Of course, as soon as we see them make a connection, we will leave a trace.
A little “underpants” that will allow you to see the first “story”
The other popular way to view stories without leaving a trace is to go to the top of Instagram, to the “stories” section and open the story of the account that appears next to it. Once this is done, we must Swipe lightly to access the stories of the account we want to see, but without sliding completely (as shown in the screenshot above). Once you see the story, you need to swipe to the other side so it doesn’t open full screen.
The big limitation of this is that, on the one hand, we have to see a history of the account that is next to it and there we will leave a trace that we have seen it. Other, Only the first story can be seen and if it is a video we will see a single image. The good thing is that it will not leave any trace of what we have seen if we have not opened it in full screen.
Cover image | Álvaro García M. with DALL-E 3
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