When you upload a long video as an Instagram Story, it usually gets chopped up into several slides. Find out if this is still the case.
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Since Instagram Stories became a thing, anyone familiar with the feature may have noticed the 15-second time limit instituted for clips. Anything longer than that would be divided into a series of clips, which may require a bit of editing prowess, especially if a single background audio track is applied across all snippets.
However, thanks to an update that was first spotted as early as 2021 and began gradual rollout to all users late last 2022, if an Instagram Story video is 60 seconds or below, it will no longer be split into shorter segments. Instead, users will see it as a single Instagram video clip.
Instagram Users On iOS Get Extra Functionality For Stories
Previously, when a person uploaded a long video to Instagram, it automatically split the first minute into four 15-second story slides. With the extended maximum length, however, it doesn’t seem like videos longer than a minute will face the same automatic chop. Based on testing the Instagram Stories feature update, if users want to share a 4-minute video, for instance, they will need to use Instagram on an iOS device and utilize the video trimmer tool to mark the end of one clip and the start of the next one. Before the update, the same long video would have to be uploaded four separate times, and the user would need to remember where to start each successive clip.
The new length limit for Instagram Stories is great news for those who enjoy sharing longer videos on the media-sharing app. It also benefits account followers through a more seamless story-viewing experience. For now, sharing a photo or video through an Instagram Story is still only achievable through a mobile device and cannot be done through the desktop version of the platform.