How to add music to Instagram posts & stories

Being able to add music to your Instagram posts or stories is a fairly new feature on the app, but users love being able to set the tone with a song. Here’s how you add music to your Instagram posts and stories.

Instagramhas recently been pivoting its focus to video content on the app, and now more than ever, users are putting a particular amount of effort into their video posts.

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In particular, many enjoy using music or other audio in tandem with their uploads to add a certain effect or set the mood.

Uploading music to your stories onthe appis relatively simple, however, adding a song to the background of a standard Instagram post is a slightly longer process. Here’s how to do both.

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How to add music to your Instagram Story

Adding music to your Instagram Story is simple, and only requires the use of features available within the stories tab.

How to add music to an Instagram post

Adding music to your Instagram post used to be a harder task, including a third party app. However a recent update of the Instagram app recently allowed users to add music to their normal posts just as easily as it is to do on a Story post.

Here’s how to add music to your Instagram post.

With Instagram adding new features all the time, it’s not clear whether they’ll make it easier to integrate music into posts in the future, but for now, the above method is allowing people to use music as a way of making their uploads more interesting.

So, there you have it — everything you need to know about adding music to your Instagram posts and stories.

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