How To Fix Archived Stories Missing Or Not Working On Instagram

[@TrevorNace]

Did this work for you? Yes? 😁 Give me a shoutout in the comments! No? 😥 Leave a comment with your issue and we'll figure it out together.

[@MyLolbro12]

this didn't work for me :(

[@moonay3703]

@@MyLolbro12 same

[@thesagniksaha]

this didn’t work, is there a latest solution?

[@cuteddybearl]

Didn’t work for me at all

[@thesagniksaha]

@@alimortada789 nope

[@arihernandez3385]

So we all here?😭

[@danielpaniagua9329]

Yes😭

[@TodorVelev-y6j]

Dude u have any update did you fix your archive

[@katie4hill]

@@TodorVelev-y6j did you fix urs?

[@ibrahimannee5442]

Ikr😂

[@shivanibarot8859]

@@katie4hillhey i fixed my issue just by doing first step. There were some stories in archive which i wasn’t be able to check. But now i see all the stories.

[@keithwoodburn3158]

Mine show up but are all grey and don't allow me to click on them

[@improviserfresh8995]

Same what’s the issue with that

[@Voynick]

Try logging out and logging back in. Didn't help with most of my greyed out archived stories but it did at the very least bring back the most recent one

[@verxiie]

Does any1 know what to do with it?

[@daniaqueen8380]

Same

[@Chris-pm7xt]

I found all missing stories in the web app (website) where it is also possible to edit your highlights

[@pudding221]

it didnt work for me. my problem is some of the stories are still in the archive but some arent. i'm so offended bcs i wanna to edit my highlight 🙁

[@flursky]

same! some are grey for me and i can’t click them

[@dawahwalnour]

@@flursky same. Were u able to solve it yet?

[@flursky]

@@dawahwalnour no :-(

[@lukehernando1493]

​@@dawahwalnour did you already fix it?

[@bennyc8020]

@@flursky I have a solution (I am using Android), but it is very tedious: 1. Click on the grey block that contains the missing story, 2. Click highlight (even the story is still not shown), 3. Add to any highlight folder (I add to a temp one so I can remove later easily), 4. After the story is added to the highlight, click the back triangle, now the missing story will re-appear. But if you have 100 stories missing, this has to be repeated 100 times. So this seems only worth the effort when there are only a few stories missing.

[@tuna6fish9tuna]

I couldnt see my most recent archives, so i offloaded the app like you said and instead it deleted all of them.... 3 years worth of stories gone.. Great.

[@dxnsang18]

Omg me too😖I need a solution asappp

[@allyswaytarot]

@@dxnsang18 it worked but a different way instead of those three dots i went to the actual story your story and underneath turned on and off the same thing he said

[@allyswaytarot]

it worked but a different way instead of those three dots i went to the actual story your story and underneath turned on and off the same thing he said

[@hwelcome]

Same thing happened to me! All gone now for days. Did all these steps and more.

[@welovebts7]

@@hwelcome did it work now

[@kakasvk]

Honestly I wasn't expecting this to work, unsetting and setting saving option back didn't work, but reinstalling the App worked and I can now see the stories that didn't save to archive again! Big thanks.

[@tweetysweetie3446]

But it's not working for me

[@지민95-d1i]

Can you still see the stories what you deleted

[@Liiiilllliiiiinn]

Help it doesn’t work for me either 😭😭

[@colinftp3288]

Didn’t work still … reassuring to know I’m not the only one experiencing problems

[@Calllme_ap]

Didn’t work for me either

[@welovebts7]

Does it work now

[@Rastaa69]

Mike still don’t work

[@BillyRock07]

me too @@onefaithlove

[@joelhochhalter638]

Mine does not work

[@abigailjanebeauty7036]

Didn’t work for me. Deleted app. Reinstalled. Offloaded. Reinstalled. Turned settings off and back on. Changed to public. Then back to private. Still years worth of memories gone and none of my current ones are saving either. Reporting the problem to insta every day. It’s so distressing.

[@AxisDens]

i have the exact same problem and nothing could fix it. instagram hasn't helped at all

[@mainesamaniego473]

Have the same problem too, what happened on insta 😢

[@meriemmen4669]

Same for me !

[@martincahill7ify]

I'm the same, must be a new issue

[@leonkonink3059]

Same problem here very annoying!

[@moixgz]

its so weird i can see my archive stories ONLY on my finsta BUT for some reason i cant see them on my public page....

[@shyyymarshall7323]

Mines too got any tips?

[@moixgz]

@@shyyymarshall7323 I ended up offloading the app just like he said & 10min after I did that, my archives were back

[@turinturambar9846]

oh my god it’s the same for me & it’s so annoying bc i wanna edit my highlights

[@bernarduskurnianto7194]

Others can see my story, but I can see my own story like I not posted anything in story. 🥺

[@kianarayaa]

samw

[@zaid7547]

The solution. : 1- first you go to settings click on ‘your activity´ then click on ´recently deleted´ then restore your archive pictures, u have to restore it before 30 days or it will be gone forever ( when you delete a story from your story or from the highlights it’s will be deleted also from archive )(next time when u wanna remove or delete a story click on remove story not on delet story)

[@Theunknownwolf744]

Thanks bro this helped

[@Katrinaz]

Anyone have the issue of the stories appearing in the calendar archive but not appearing in the actual achive? I can’t add the stories to highlight 😢

[@peascarproctor3308]

Experiencing the same problem

[@dominika1441]

I can watch my old stories only if I added the location to it, so it’s not everything I ever posted, it's actually a minority… I have no idea what to do

[@TheKing12310]

That's exactly my problem. I also changed the account type to personal and then back to creator. Doesn't worked either

[@alphapuma3332]

Same problem, been having this for almost a year now, tried everything but nothing works

[@TheKing12310]

@@alphapuma3332 i reported the issue and contacted with Instagram support but no response at all

[@cherriejuice]

Thanks for this! Didn't really work until I manually uninstalled and reinstalled it, but definitely helped in a way.

[@marmed7270]

Did your archived stories delete once u uninstalled?

[@XATAGE0779]

What if instagram doesn't even show the day and the story in the archives what I wanted to keep as a highlight? It's just gone fr

[@CarlaMichellePerez]

Not sure if this will work for anyone but it worked for me. I recently had changed my profile account from personal to creator or “professional” and that made my archive disappear. As soon as I switched it back to personal my archive came back. Same goes for business profiles Im sure. Hope this helps someone! :)

[@jJuvyCrim]

Bro you’re a lifesaver that’s exactly what I just did just now and they literally all came back! I was missing story archives from like a month ago but post everyday! Needed one of the post I posted to try and remember something and couldn’t find it so I did all the reinstall stuff but it was happening even on android phone too. Your tip is only thing that worked!

[@gabyprxx]

still not working

[@cherishliyah]

@@jJuvyCrim my account has been a business account for a long time it has been showing my archive stories but aye I’ll give it a try

[@cherishliyah]

Ahhhh it worked but I had to change my profile from business to personal

[@dancehallketchup]

@@cherishliyah but then you’ve also lost all insights don’t u ?:(

[@paulamunoz2239]

Didn't work... The weirdest thing is that the story does appear on my archive when I log in from my pc, but not from my phone. Also when I set the archive as a calendar, I can see the thumbnail of the story on the day I uploaded it, but when I try to open it it automatically jumps to the next story as if it wasn't there, but I can see the tiny image, and I can open it from the computer so it has to be there somewhere 😢

[@ummayayesha1309]

I have been facing this issue for a while now

[@stevem2323]

You probably deleted your stories before the time and that's why they are missing. You need to go to "your activity" and restore them, you will have them in the archives then. After that delete Instagram and then install it.

[@paulamunoz2239]

@@stevem2323 I'll try it because I want to try everything, but I don't delete stories. It just happened again with a story I uploaded 2 days ago, so I'm pretty sure I haven't deleted it. But thanks for the tip

[@paulamunoz2239]

Just tried, and there was no content in deleted items...

[@stevem2323]

@@paulamunoz2239 probably past 30 days since you deleted it.

[@jessestaton4623]

All of stories are gone for some reason, I did everything in the video and updated the app but they’re still not there. Has anyone found a solution?

[@lorettarosy63]

Me neither. I am an android user though

[@leilei1900]

it still didn’t work i still can’t see my stories. and i keep posting on insta and i can’t even see the posts that i have been posting recently

[@Otgkilo]

Any solution yet ?

[@welovebts7]

Does it work now

[@leilei1900]

@@welovebts7 yeah just switch your acc to private then back to public. it worked for me

[@leilei1900]

@@Otgkilo yeah just switch your acc to private then back to public. it worked for me

[@strelok9376]

​@@leilei1900 Not working

[@shaggytheshaman]

This doesn't help. What do I do when certain stories randomly disappear from my archive?

[@filipinostylespaghetti]

Have you fixed it😭

[@rainsusanabraham7060]

Did you manage to find a solution?

[@tehamiswift]

Thank you so much, it was so helpful one of my friend was having this issue and she was so worried about it

[@MakaylaNeomi]

Mines literally started doing this like yesterday, cause I could see them the other day. I really hope this is a just a glitch.

[@welovebts7]

Does it work now

[@MakaylaNeomi]

@@welovebts7 yes, some of them aren’t loading but for the most part they are back. Keep retrying it , it should eventually pop back up

[@dewio]

did you follow the tutorial to make your archives back?

[@vmarsfiles]

It didn't work for me. I achieved my story before the 24 hours and its not showing in my achieve at all. Does arching stories before the 24 hours delete them?

[@daisyedwards2989]

Hi Trevor, thanks for the video! Unfortunately I've noticed my oldest stories have gone missing from the archive and don't even show up in a data download. I've tried both options in your video but to no avail. Any ideas?

[@bidadari2syurga]

Remake the video

[@louna.dz_]

my problem, is that, in my stories archives, i can’t see some stories, it’s grey ? i can’t see them, anyone got a solution ?

[@jazzy8029]

Same thing is happening to me idk what to do

[@ananya.sharma]

I'm not even getting the "story archive" option there..only post and live is available..What am I supposed to do now ?

[@woshiainolagi]

same here🥲

[@sakshambhatia9469]

Did you find any solution?

[@shivanibarot8859]

Thank you so much it did work for me. There were some stories in my archive that i wasn’t be able to check. But after doing first step now i am able to see all the stories. Thank you so much this made my day. 😇

[@FranM8-]

My problem is not missing stories, its the fact that some of the videos are now pictures and i can't play them, i have a lot of memories, is there any way to fix that? Or instagram just stopped saving my videos?

[@Junya-Rey]

Yeah it’s annoying 😑. Got bored and wanted to take a trip down memory lane but all my vids are now just stills.

[@erosunique999]

@@Junya-Rey Did you find any fix?

[@RodgarRodger]

OMG thank you so much, I thought it was my profile or something, it's finally fixed 🥺🥺❤️ thanks a lot ❤️❤️❤️

[@sineenanibras4459]

Is it possible to recover unsaved archive stories ?

[@TrevorNace]

Hi Sineena! Unfortunately, if your stories weren't saved to your archive, it's not possible to recover them. To avoid this in the future, make sure to turn on Story Archiving in Settings > Privacy > Story > Save story to archive.

[@mariamadelali7883]

I didn’t archive my old stories is there any solution 😢😢😢

[@AxisDens]

for a month now my story archive has been completely broken. it just loads for a while and then shows an error message. i've tried absolutely everything, even logged in from another device and i have the exact same problem no matter what i do, since it seems like the problem is my account itself. i've contacted instagram a hundred times but they never help :(

[@AxisDens]

its been 4 months now and it hasn't been fixed :((

[@laweafome528]

@@AxisDens is it fixed now?

[@strelok9376]

Now?

[@grandefrppc]

Does this work with ‘story(video) archive not playing’ !? Update: It works

[@brittanywhitney5088]

Didn’t work for me 😢

[@welovebts7]

Does it work now

[@genesisrodriguez6724]

I just want to say you just saved me from a heart attack, thank you

[@decagod]

trying to share sum of my old stories archive. But its partially showing a portion of it, not the full video?! help!

[@y0urt]

it didnt work for me man :(( my phone is iphone 13 pro max and my archived story is showing up in my archives. but when i press on it it doesnt work. it is a 4 second video posted with a song. i cant find the song either. so i am guessin its either bc its too short or the song is missing or both of them combined

[@ashishbhanushali4125]

Same problem with me. But I am using Huwaei cell phone. Did you find any solution then pls suggest.

[@nanni35cn32]

Same, have you figured out a way to fix it?

[@attitudegirlparul8465]

Dekho jab tum achive mein jaoge na tab upar three line aaygi uss par jaakar option aayega save story to achieve usse ho jaega😊

[@mamadev7687]

didnt work at all. still cat see some of my stories and for some reason the date is always "december 31, 1969"

[@st.sebastian2218]

Still having the issue?

[@welovebts7]

Did it work now

[@barcamessiful]

Uninstalled the app and reinstalled. Thank God it worked. Cheers.

[@marisaseveren8281]

My archived stories show up in the setting section where they don’t show up is when I go to create a story, and I use the create section and try to slide over and there’s nothing there. No gift, no on this day., no trivia or any of those other things that are usually there

[@Brandobobs]

I was having an issue with my memories popping up. This definitely fixed it.

[@padhaNishaa]

My 2 yrs old highlight isn't visible they buffer

[@MarijaMare-ić]

Yesterday I clicked on one of my stories on archive and then save the picture. It is gone. It is not even saved on my phone. I tried to uninstall and then install the app and nothing....

[@stevem2323]

You probably deleted your stories before the time and that's why they are missing. You need to go to "your activity" and restore them, you will have them in the archives then.

[@Wivewivey]

How if my post archive is suddenly missing?

[@temenochi6443]

when i click the 3 lines i only get three options not the list that you got and archive is no where to be seen

[@zwaleed114]

Go on 'Your Activity' on the list. Youll find Archived posts/stories there. (Im way too late with the reply tho lol)

[@LifewithEbo_]

Mine still don’t show but it will show a post only as memory from the same day the next year

[@Dylanisa_BasketCase]

Question how does this work for Android?

[@beckiejbrown]

Unfortunately, this did nothing for me... :(

[@kristyana9286]

It’s still not working :(

[@allyswaytarot]

it worked but a different way instead of those three dots i went to the actual story your story and underneath turned on and off the same thing he said

[@welovebts7]

Did it work now

[@ogsimple6208]

Someone help me I am not able to see my highlight but others can 8 archived that story but I can't see in archived option

[@xindaneil]

bro same 😭 did you solve it?

[@anvitaallu7042]

Why is it still not working???!

[@Dcnqoduw]

Thanks mate, it worked well although it can’t show up my old stories, but I tried to post a story and it automatically saved, Thanks

[@GOODMUSIC670]

I have the problem of an old insta story being shown as a photo when it was in fact a video. 2 of those actually. One is from Jan 6 2021 and another a few months after. Anyone know how to fix this so it shows up as a video and not a photo? Tks

[@fabiola_andria]

I have same problem they said that my story will be deleted definitely until 2025 i need those old photos

[@gauravmali2792]

I lost the story which i posted yesterday ☠️😭😥

[@jeonriyaa]

One of my stories is showing in highlights but not in the archive section, it's showing 25 march 2022 in highlights but in my archives, it's not there..but there's one story on 26th march which is not loading

[@shalinijha7639]

This didn’t work for me Sir 😢

[@billyn1155]

Neither worked. I had years of archived stories that are missing completely.

[@mrs.tomato9654]

For people who it’s still not working , try to make your account from public to privet or from privet to public . It worked for me

[@rozimelindsey8041]

omg that worked!!

[@muhammadamran2365]

is that truee can fix?

[@abangganteng2025]

bs

[@mohdsubhaanansari548]

Thank you so much for the genuine video, it is so helpful 💙

[@brittneyg4676]

Offloading the app worked for me. Ty!!

[@saadstill]

guys just post a story and then go to archives, everything should pop up again

[@giananicole856]

didn’t work for me 😭😭 all of my archived stories are gone idk what to do. but it still lets me see archived posts

[@Vampirecake]

Did u find out how to get it back

[@Khusbuuchaudhary]

Omg the first way worked but it only shows the recent stories archive..😢

[@macariik]

it’s still not there

[@brynl5192]

Didn't work 😔

[@Karina_F_7878]

This did not help for me. But logging out of my account & then immediately logging back in did surprisingly work

[@shivanisaini6725]

If archive was off n I still want those stories then ?

[@adels]

Offload and reinstall worked!! Thanks so much!

[@hannahsexton3312]

okay but how do you add a story to an archive

[@SPIRITUALBADDIELIVE]

yay!!! thank you for the pointers

[@ngunthasui79]

I literally tried ever videos and none of them worked. I lost many of my draft videos due to deleting the app so often! I was going to tried this too but after seeing the comments, I didn't have any expectation! However, it work!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg!! Thank YOU!!!!

[@TrevorNace]

Glad I could help!

[@zmajevicc5179]

That option "Save story in archive" was turned off on my acc and story's didn't saved but I want to save it on it,what should I do

[@muhammadamran2365]

you still that problemm?

[@jayleenchapero315]

My IG stories for the last few weeks of this month isn’t showing but it’s showing on my fb stories?

[@arina3322]

On my instagram, videos in the archive turned into photos... Even featured stories don't work properly... So many beautiful trip videos have been destroyed... 😢

[@TrevorNace]

Are these all stories? If you go to your archive what does it show?

[@ich0ra]

didn't work

[@welovebts7]

Does it work now

[@ich0ra]

@@welovebts7 yup, I think after a few days. Idk why it wasn’t working though.

[@welovebts7]

@@ich0ra your archive wasn't loading right?

[@ich0ra]

@@welovebts7 that’s why we’re all here isn’t it

[@welovebts7]

@@ich0ra thank god i thought it was permanent 😭🤌

[@strelok9376]

I lost everything

[@anenazupongtsur697]

Very helpful video Thank you so much ❤

[@_fatimah875]

Thank god i got it after reinstalling app i was soo upset that i wasn't get stories in the archive😅

[@kanishkaadhikari8590]

I deleted and reinstalled the app....thankfully it worked . I was so worried.

[@kwonzeb.3158]

If your on Andriod force stop the app, then reopen it.

[@dangwhatarethose9179]

Hey my problem with the archive is that it used to show what story I posted like a year or 2 years ago (and on what day that year). I don’t see that option anymore in my archive. Anyone know how to turn that back on?

[@sondossawaed2581]

How can I recover story after 24 hours, that didn’t saved to archive please thanks

[@sondossawaed2581]

I by mistake on 1 week turned off (save to archive) now I wanted to recover to can added to highlight

[@krishnapalsingh3873]

Not show archive story only for show live and post story 😢

[@pixelrina]

the first method works thank you!

[@kblock-lt8yk]

Nope it didn’t help I still don’t have my story archive wtf

[@Divine_feasts]

THANKS IT WORKEDDDDD ..I WAS SO STRESSED..I RE INSTALLED IT

[@choco_matcha]

I can't see my story archive from before 2017 😭 anyone else has the same problem?

[@liapolin6811]

thanks for the information. very helpful

[@Владимир-с7в3у]

I just reinstalled the app and it is now working

[@welovebts7]

It's not working and its been 3 week

[@25mel]

some of mine are still grey ahhh

[@EduardoSanchez-tm6sy]

I reposted a political story however user deleted their story so it wouldn’t show up

[@anushakhan8806]

Story post karny k bad full green screen show hoti hain q

[@jumpmanyang3117]

I uninstalled and installed the app and it works 🎉

[@sheenaqj]

Did all of it and still not working

[@ananoabramishvili3754]

How do I see non-archived stories on Instagram?

[@callmeemya]

since they weren’t archived, i don’t think that you’re able to see them again…

[@jepyy7482]

Omg, my 6months myday stories gone i didn't tap the save to archieve 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 what f......

[@2kcbhdrflower868]

It didn't work nothing works

[@nishthamaurya181]

It's working Thanks for the vedio🙂

[@kimboslice8434]

Thank you. It worked