How to remove all highlights from Instagram

  • You can delete a highlight on Instagram if you find the highlight outdated or no longer relevant to your public profile. 
  • You can either remove one item within the Instagram highlight or the entire collection. 
  • Instagram highlights make it easy to organize and showcase your Instagram stories and posts on your profile.
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Whether it's an individual photo or the entire collection, it's easy to delete your Instagram highlights.

Highlights are a great way to organize your temporary stories so they are always visible on your account profile page. However, you may wish to update them as time goes on. To do so, first tap to view a highlight collection and then choose "More" options to delete an individual post or edit the collection.

In the edit page, you can uncheck multiple photos or videos you've uploaded to your curated highlights. If you uncheck all of them, you'll be prompted with a message confirming you wish to delete the whole thing.

Here's how to delete a highlight on Instagram. 

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How to delete a highlight on Instagram individually or by collection

1. Head to your profile page in the Instagram app and tap on the highlight you'd like to delete. Highlights are found in the space below your follower numbers and bio.

2. Tap through until you find the highlight photo or video you'd like to remove.

Find your Instagram highlight. Marissa Perino/Business Insider

3. Tap the three dots for the "More" option in the bottom right hand corner.

4. Tap "Remove from Highlight" to remove just that one item.

Tap "Remove from Highlight." Marissa Perino/Business Insider

5. This will open a pop-up. Tap the red "Remove" option to remove that item.

Tap "Remove." Marissa Perino/Business Insider

6. From the "More" menu, you can also tap "Edit Highlight" to make additional changes. 

7. This will open a details page where you can view all of the stories you've selected for the highlight. (If you tap the "Stories" tab you can see others to add.)

Select the stories you want to keep. Marissa Perino/Business Insider

8. Uncheck the selected items you wish to remove. This will change the blue check marks to empty circles.

Deselect the posts you want to delete. Marissa Perino/Business Insider

9. Tap "Done" to complete the process of deleting multiple highlight stories at once.

10. Uncheck all of the selected items if you wish to remove the entire highlight. When you tap "Done," it will prompt a pop-up confirming you wish to delete. Tap the red "Delete" option to complete the process.

You can delete the entire highlight. Marissa Perino/Business Insider

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Marissa Perino is a former editorial intern covering executive lifestyle. She previously worked at Cold Lips in London and Creative Nonfiction in Pittsburgh. She studied journalism and communications at the University of Pittsburgh, along with creative writing. Find her on Twitter: @mlperino.

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One of my favorite features so far on Instagram is the highlights. Being able to save certain stories in it’s own category has been a game-changer for me. However, I don’t always like to have the IG highlight names on there- it looks so busy! I tried searching for a way to remove it, but IG still hasn’t made it an option to leave it blank, so I came up with a method for you to successfully remove the IG highlight names and have a clean looking grid!


Hey! Be sure to check out my Instagram account @thetinyherbivore and follow if you’d like! I’m actually pretty cool, plus I discovered this really neat trick! I really appreciate your support!


Here’s what mine looks like!

How to remove all highlights from Instagram

Obviously, I am currently using the names because of these adorable icons I created for my highlights, but I’m still going to show you how to make it look without all the extra clutter of words on your bio. First, I want to show you what happens when you try to leave the name blank.

Click on one of your icons and choose the … in the bottom. Click “Edit Highlight”

How to remove all highlights from Instagram

For demonstration, I deleted my “trick” to show you what happens when you leave it blank.

How to remove all highlights from Instagram

Instagram will automatically change it back to “Highlights” which is just ridiculous. I don’t know why, after a few years now, they haven’t updated this so you can just leave it blank normally.

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How to remove all highlights from Instagram

Okay, let’s go to this website! Click here to get there!

How to remove all highlights from Instagram

Click on the “click here” button and it will automatically highlight the blank text. Copy the text!

How to remove all highlights from Instagram

Now, go back to edit the highlight, and paste the text. It will be invisible! Press done It’ll now appear like you have successfully removed the IG highlight names.

How to remove all highlights from Instagram

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How to remove all highlights from Instagram

That’s it! Now you have a clean looking bio! Yay! Let me know if this helps you remove instagram highlight names or if it didn’t work, message me in the comments below or feel free to DM me on Instagram if you need more assistance! So proud of myself for figuring this out!

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How to remove all highlights from Instagram

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How do I delete all my Instagram highlights?

Instagram app for Android Open your story highlight and find the photo or video you want to remove. Tap More in the bottom right of the photo or video. Tap Remove from Highlight, then tap Remove Photo or tap Edit Highlight to add more photos or videos to your story.

Can you hide all highlights on Instagram?

Here's how you can hide highlights when you know who should not see your highlights. Go to Instagram -> Settings -> Privacy. Scroll down and select “Story.” Select “Hide Story From.”

How do I delete all highlights at once?

Tap through until you find the highlight photo or video you'd like to remove..
Find your Instagram highlight. Marissa Perino/Business Insider..
Tap "Remove from Highlight." ... .
Tap "Remove." ... .
Select the stories you want to keep. ... .
Deselect the posts you want to delete. ... .
You can delete the entire highlight..

Can you archive entire highlights on Instagram?

Instagram Lite app for Android Tap or your profile picture in the bottom right to go to your profile. Tap in the top right, then tap Settings. Tap Privacy, then tap Story. Next to Save story to Archive, tap .