While WhatsApp and Instagram have Stories functionality for capturing and sharing moments, it was originally a Snapchat feature. By default, everyone on your Snapchat friends list can see your story. In some cases, you may not want a group of friends checking out your most recent weekend trip. You can hide your upcoming stories from them on Snapchat. This is the way.
Hide a story from someone on Snapchat
First, we’ll talk about hiding your follow-up story from select people on Snapchat and answer a few questions regarding the move.
The Snapchat iOS and Android apps use a similar user interface. For this post, we will be using the Snapchat iPhone app to cover the steps here. You can follow the same steps on Android to get the job done.
Step 1: Open Snapchat on your iPhone or Android.
Step 2: It will open the camera viewfinder menu. Tap the profile menu at the top.
Step 3: Tap the three-dot menu next to the My Story option.
Step 4: Select Story Settings from the context menu.
Everyone: As the name suggests, everyone can see your uploaded snapshot story on the platform. Stories can also start appearing for others in the Explore menu. We recommend avoiding this option (unless you are an influencer or want to be an influencer).
My Friends: All of your friends on Snapchat can see the story.
Custom: This allows you to block the people you’ve chosen from seeing your story. This is what we will use here.
Step 5: Tap Customize and it will open the friends list.
Step 6: Select the Snapchat contacts you want to hide stories from. Once you’re done with your selection, tap the Block button at the bottom.
The My Stories setting will change to Custom and all your current and upcoming stories will become invisible to selected friends.
This trick works well when you want to hide a few selected friends from seeing your Snapchat story. But what if you have hundreds of friends on social platforms and only want to share stories with selected users?
Instagram has a feature called ‘Closed Friends’ that allows you to create a circle of close friends to just share stories with them. Snapchat has no such add-on and you need to send the story as a DM (direct message) to your close friends.
FAQ: Hide stories from someone on Snapchat
Will the change affect existing Snapchat stories?
After you’ve posted a story on Snapchat, you can go to your Story Settings and hide it from the people you’ve selected. It makes sense to do a privacy edit and then post the story. What if your friend saw the story right after you posted it on Snapchat?
When you block people you’ve chosen to see stories on Snapchat, they won’t know about the change. Your friends can guess when they haven’t seen any stories from you for a long time.
Will blocked users send or receive direct messages on Snapchat?
You are simply blocking your friends from seeing Snapchat stories. In addition, they can send you messages and receive them, and check other activities.
Can I see the Hidden Friend’s Snapchat Story?
Unless your friend has hidden stories, you will continue to see your friend’s stories.
Is the user still friends on Snapchat?
Yes, you are still friends with all users from whom you hide stories. It will not affect your friends list.
When you hide your story from someone on Snapchat, it reduces your social media engagement with users in the long run. After your story disappears after 24 hours, you can make settings adjustments and make it possible for all your friends to access your future Snapchat stories.
Step 1: Launch Snapchat and go to your profile.
Step 2: Go to Story Settings and select My Friends.
Explore Snapchat’s privacy features
Snapchat has carefully designed the story functionality for the platform. It can help you reach millions of Snapchat users, and you have all the privacy controls to limit the story to only a few friends. How and why do you plan to customize the My Stories feature? Share your reasons in the comments below.
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