How to remove Instagram Highlights name [2 EASY steps]

Short Answer:
To remove Instagram Highlights name, you have to copy and paste a blank space character to replace your Highlights name.

Instagram for the past few years has added many features to its product including Highlights, a feature people use a lot and unique.

Story Highlights is a way to display past stories in a more permanent way on your profile.

For example, if you have a Highlights of all the times you’ve gone hiking, anyone who visits your profile can see that you like hiking without having to scroll through your entire story feed.

However, many people also do not want a name on your group stories. Or, you might have seen some of your friends do not have names or just a blank on their Highlights.

By default, you can’t leave the Instagram Story Highlights without a name

If you try to remove the name and leave it blank, Instagram will save it as Highlight. So, that’s not good.

How to remove Instagram Highlight name then? There is a little trick and it’s simple and not difficult.

In this guide, we’ll show step by step how you can do it.

How to remove Instagram Highlights name?

Well, technically you can’t remove Instagram Highlights name but you can copy and paste a blank space character to replace your Highlights name.

You might then ask, how do I replace it with a blank space as a Highlight name?

Here are 2 steps how to remove Highlight name on Instagram and add a blank space:

Step 1. Edit your Highlights

First, you’ll need to go to the Profile page (icon on bottom right corner).
Tap and hold the highlight you want to remove the name.
A setting menu will pop up, select Edit Highlight.
On the next screen, there is an option to change the name.
You’ll need to delete that name and replace it with a blank space character.

To get the blank space character, you will copy it from another website and paste it in there.

Pro Tip: Do you know how to find and use Instagram’s clipboard? Here is the guide.

Step 2. Copy blank space from other website

To copy a blank space character, you need to visit this website called ‘emptycharacter’

They provide two options to do the copy, the easy one is to tap or click on the ‘Copy to Clipboard’ button or the other option is to copy manually.

Once you copy it, go back to your Instagram and paste it on your Highlights’ name as described in step 1.

So, there you go, that’s how you remove Instagram Story Highlight name and replace it with a blank space character.

There are also 2 other websites we tried and it work well: iempty or psfonttk

Why use a blank on your Instagram Highlights name?

There are a couple of benefits if you’re not using a name on your Instagram Story Highlights.

The first benefit is that it will save you time because you don’t have to think of a creative name for each of your Highlights.

The second benefit is that it will make your profile look cleaner and more minimalist.

And the third benefit is that it can help you gain more followers because people will be curious to see what’s inside your Highlights without a name.

So, those are the benefits of not using a name on your Instagram Story Highlights.

How to remove Highlights from your Instagram Bio

If you want to remove Highlights completely from your Bio, the process is pretty much the same.

Go to Profile page and tap and hold the Highlights you want to remove
On the next screen, a setting menu will pop up.
Select Delete Highlight and it will be removed from your Bio.

Deleting Highlights will not delete your Stories.

Change Instagram Highlights cover

By default, Instagram will select the first image of your Stories as the cover photo for that specific Highlights.

If you don’t like it or you just want to change it with a more personalized picture or use your own logo, you can easily change it for the settings.

Here is how to change Highlights cover:

Go to your profile page, tap and hold the Highlight you want to change.
A setting menu will pop up
Select Edit Highlight then Edit Cover.

You choose another one from your Stories or use your own image.

Conclusion

In this article, we’ve shown you how to remove Instagram Highlight name and replace it with a blank space by copy and paste blank space from a third party website.

We hope this guide was helpful and that you were able to remove the name from your Highlights successfully.

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