

Sadly, you can’t switch to the next Instagram story directly, you’ll need to go back and open another one to view.Īnother advantage of installing the extension is the ability to download any Instagram Story on your timeline. If you need to exit the story, either press Esc or the “down arrow” located on the top left corner below fullscreen. The tool even provides a native zooming option if you click the playing moment itself. You can even go full-screen by tapping the icon present on top left corner. For viewing a story, tap on the person’s profile picture and for moving between the previous or next photo/video, click the arrows present on both sides of the screen or perform a swipe action through the trackpad. Posts which aren’t checked by you are surrounded by a vibrant circle and the rest with a gray one. It, essentially, adds recent Stories on top of your feed just like what you get on the mobile application. Thankfully, there’s a Chrome extension now that allows you to view and even download Instagram Stories on desktop.Ĭhrome IG Story, a free extension for Google Chrome is a straightforward approach for embedding stories on Instagram’s official web interface. Unfortunately, the feature hasn’t been made available to Instagram’s website and due to the defined expiry period, we tend to miss a lot of posts. Despite the controversial launch, people are actually posting and viewing stories regularly instead of the standard uploads. Instagram recently unveiled Stories on its ever-growing social platform, that allows users to stitch together multiple photos or videos which automatically disappear after 24 hours.
