How to see who viewed your Instagram story the most

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Instagram borrowed the “Stories” feature from Snapchat in 2016, and it became an essential part of the platform. Now more than 500 million Instagram users use Instagram stories every day. With stories, you can share photos and videos that disappear from your profile after 24 hours. You can see who has viewed your stories by just swiping up from the story panel. When the story disappears from your story tab after 24 hours, you can no longer access this data from there. But actually, you can see the list of story viewers up to 48 hours after you post it using Instagram's archives feature. Read this wikiHow to learn more!

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Open the Instagram app on your smartphone. It’s the purple, pink, and orange icon with a white camera inside that you'll find on one of your Home screens, in the app drawer, or by searching.
- Login with your account, if you haven't already done so. Also, make sure that the archiving feature is not disabled on your account.
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Go to your profile page. Tap on your profile icon at the bottom-right corner of the app.

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Tap on the ≡ button. This will be located at the top-right corner of your screen. The menu tab will show up, after doing so.
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Tap on the Archive option. It will be the second option on the list.
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Navigate to the “Stories archive” section. Tap on the Posts archive option at the top then select “Stories archive”.
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Select a story from there. Remember that you can only see the viewer info up to 48 hours after you post it.
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Swipe up on the story. Now you can see the number and the usernames of the people who have viewed your story. That's all!

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This function is also available on the Instagram highlights feature. If you have been added your stories to highlights, you can see the viewers details from there. Note that the 48 hours limit is also applied here.

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Can you see how many times you viewed Instagram story?

Can you see how many times someone views your story on Instagram? While you can see who has viewed your story, there is no way to tell if a person has viewed your story more than once.

Why is always the same person on top viewers on my Instagram story?

Basically, Instagram mainly sorts the order of story viewers based on the activity of that user with your account. So, even if you have no interaction with a user on Instagram but they still frequently view your profile that user can show up surprisingly at the top of your Instagram story viewers.

What does the order of your Instagram story viewers mean?

Typically, the accounts that you engage with the most seem to be listed first in your story feed. It looks like this is somewhat the same for story viewers – meaning that the accounts you engage with the most show up towards the top. This engagement can be measured by accounts you like photos from often or DM the most.