How To Turn Off Sound On Instagram Stories?

Metaโ€™s Instagram is one of the top social media platforms in the world. It has billions of users, posting pictures, videos, reels, and stories.

One of the top features on Instagram is stories.

There, users can post photos and videos along with music and animations.

But, it has been seen that many users (story viewers), get irritated with the sound in stories that is by default on.

To fix this, keep reading it till the end.

How To Turn Off Sound On Instagram Stories

Here are the ways that you can use to turn off sound on Instagram stories.

Use Volume Rockers on Android

This is the most practical way to turn off the sound on Instagram stories. All you have to do is: Google Pixel Volume Buttons

  • Look for the volume rocker button on your device
  • Press and hold the volume down button until the sound is muted
  • Release the button when it is done

Use iPhone’s silent mode button

In iPhone, there’s a separate button for this.

  • Look for the silent button on your iPhone at the top left corner
  • Press down the switch to put it into silent mode

The orange color appears, indicating that your iPhone successfully got into silent mode.

How To Turn Off Sound On Instagram Reels

Reels can also be muted on Instagram. To do that, you have to:

  • Move to the Reels tab on your Instagram
  • Select the Reel you wish to watch
  • Tap on the Reel you are watching and it will be muted

Report to the Instagram

If you are still facing this issue after the aforementioned methods. You can report this issue to Instagram.

To do:

  1. Open your Instagram app
  2. Click on the Hamburger icon in the top right corner.
  3. Go to Settings
  4. Tap on Help
  5. Then, press the Report a problem-button
  6. Elaborate on this issue in detail
  7. Click Submit

Note: Within hours, Instagram customer support will connect with you for the same.

Instagram will see if there’s any glitch that can be fixed.

Conclusion

So, this was all regarding the ways on how to turn off sound on Instagram stories.

Apart from this, there are no other direct ways to turnย Off Sound On Instagram Stories.

Anchit Sharma
Anchit Sharma
Anchit Sharma covers evergreen explainers, how-to, tips-tricks, and lists, for Techworm. He previously wrote for GadgetsToUse and TheHackerNews.

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