The stories feature of Instagram is a great way to share your life stories on the platform. Not only that, but you can also use it as a tool to interact with your Instagram followers. Whether you are using Instagram for your business or to showcase your personal life, you should know how to change the background color on your Instagram story.
The default palette that Instagram picks for your story background is based on your picture or video’s colors or posts you share as the story. Hence adding a bit of flair to your story wouldn’t just make it interesting and give it a unique style.
But guess what? There is still no direct way to change the background color on Instagram stories. Everything method we are sharing is more like an Instagram story hack that allows you to post a story with a different color background. Instagram, are you listening?
With that out of the way, let’s see all the methods you can use to change the background color on your Instagram Story.
How to change the Instagram story background color with a photo?
Whenever you try to post a photo from your gallery as a story, Instagram picks the dominant color from that image and sets it as the background of that story. And give no option to change it from the story settings. So in this Instagram story hack, we will first use the photo as a background, give it a solid color (which you can easily change), and then add the same photo on top of it.
Here is how to do it;
- Open the Instagram app on your phone. Tap on the + icon on the top-left of your feed page and choose “Story.”
- Tap on the “Gallery” option at the bottom-left and pick the photo you want to add to your story as background.
- We will now change the background color of this Instagram story. To do that, tap on the three-dot menu on the top-left and choose the “Draw” tool/mode.
- In drawing mode, make sure the “Brush tool” is selected. Now tap on the color from the Color Selector panel at the bottom that you want as your story background. You can also use the color picker to pick a color from the background image.
- Once you have picked the desired color, long-press and hold on to the story background to fill it with that color. Finally, tap on “Done” to save changes.
- Now let us add a photo to this new solid background. Click on the “Stickers” icon on the top and select the “Add photo” sticker.
- Select the photo that you want to post as your Instagram story. Doing so will add your selected image as a sticker on your story canvas, which you can resize, rotate or reposition as you like. Repeat Step 6 to add multiple photos to your story.
- Once you are satisfied with the results, you can either post it right away as a story or save it as a draft.
How to change the background color on the Instagram story using create tool?
Create mode in Instagram gives various tools that a user can use to interact with their followers via stories. It also offers a few gradient backgrounds that you can use behind these tools. We will use those pre-made background gradient colors behind our story in this Instagram story hack.
- Open the Instagram app on your phone. Tap on the + icon on the top-left of your feed page and choose “Story.”
- A camera-like interface will open. From there, tap on the “Create” tool, which looks like the letter “Aa.”
- We will now add a picture to this story by clicking on the “Stickers” icon on the top and selecting the “Add photo” sticker from the sticker list.
- Select the photo that you want to post as your Instagram story, and then resize, rotate or reposition as you like. If you want to add more photos to your story, repeat Step 3.
- Now, let us change the background of this Instagram story. You will see a new “Color” icon next to “Add text .” Tap on it to quickly switch to a different style gradient background.
- Choose the background color style that fits well with your story and post it. That’s how you change the Instagram story background color to gradient using Create tool.
How to change the background on the Instagram story using custom background images and templates?
We have one more way to change the story background to add a custom image/pattern/template as the story’s background. For this method to work, you’ll need to have pre-made background images ready in your phone’s gallery.
Here is how to do it;
- First of all, grab the image/pattern/template you want to use as your story background and save it on your phone.
- Now open the Instagram app and tap on the + icon on the top-left of your page, then choose “Story.”
- Tap on the “Gallery” option at the bottom left. Then pick the image pattern/template you want to add to your story as background and adjust it to fit.
- Now we will add photo(s) to that pre-made background. Click on the “Stickers” icon on the top and select the “Add photo” sticker.
- Select the photo that you want to post as your Instagram story and then resize, rotate or reposition as you like. Repeat Step 4 to add multiple photos to your story.
- Once you are satisfied with the results, you can post this Instagram story with a pre-made background.
Final words: How to change the Instagram story background color?
Unless Instagram decides to give its users an option to change story background, these are all the methods using which you can change the background color on your Instagram story.
On the downside, for some reason, there is no way you can add a video with a custom background color on your Instagram. You can only post pictures/images with a custom background color, image, or pattern as your Instagram story. If you are planning to post a video from your phone’s gallery, you have to stick with Instagram’s default background color.
