Instagram’s Hidden Gems: How to Upload Large Amounts of Content

How to Upload Multiple Photos and Videos to Instagram

Shanoon Cox

Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions

We often wonder how great would that be if you can upload multiple photos or video to Instagram, right? Well, we understand your situation. Obviously, if you have to upload your photos or videos one at a time, it may feel quite boring and frustrating, especially when you have dozens of them lined up in the queue. But here’s the good news!

Introducing Carousel

Instagram’s update 10.9 for Android and iOS allows its users to upload upto 10 photos and videos in one go. This new feature is called ‘Carousel’. Basically, when you upload multiple photos via carousel, they appear in a single post in the feed. There will be a row of blue dots underneath the pictures to let others know that they can swipe left and right through the slideshow to view the photos.

You can now organize and post your photos about an expedition or some memorable event etc. in one single post and boast about your experiences in a more sequential and connective way to efficiently capture your audience’s attention. Since this feature lets you add a series of videos as well, you can incorporate up to 10 videos in a single post and hence post a video content for up to 10 minutes.

How to Upload Multiple Videos and Photos to Instagram

Here in this section we have brought you with the detailed guide on how one can upload up to 10 images or videos or a combination of both in a single Instagram post –

• Launch your Instagram app and hit the ‘+’ sign at the bottom.

• As soon as you tap it, you will be able to see the recent photos and videos in your phone. Tap and hold, on any of the preferred image or video which you wish to upload, until you sense a slight vibration. Now, you have enabled the ‘Select Multiple’, scroll through the gallery and select rest 9 photos or videos that you wish to upload.

Alternatively, if you have upgraded your Instagram app, you can simply tap the ‘Select Multiple’ option, represented by an icon of ‘stacked squares’, and select up to 10 photos/videos.

Note: Make sure to select the images, in the sequence you want them to occur in your post. A number appears on the top right corner of every image which shows you the sequence in which they will be uploaded. Tap ‘Next’ when you are done selecting the images/videos.

• (Optional) The next screen allows you to apply filters and edit your images. The filter you choose will be auto applied to all the images.

If in case, you want a different filter for each or any specific image, tap on that particular image and apply the filter of your choice. Once you are satisfied with your selection, tap ‘Done’.

• (Optional) If you’ve selected less than 10 photos and want to add more, tap ‘<’ or go back to the previous screen or tap ‘+’ displayed on the right side of the photos/videos. Tapping ‘<’ or going back to the previous screen can also be used to deselect a photo/video.

• The next screen lets you caption your post, ‘Add Location’ and ‘Tag people’. To tag people on individual photos, tap ‘Tag People’ and scroll through the slideshow to tag your friends in the images of your choice.

• Lastly, hit on ‘Share’ to publish your post with multiple photos/videos in it.

Conclusion

Coming towards the end of today’s post, we now hope that you have full understanding with this new feature of Instagram that enables you to share memories of a single event by uploading multiple photos and videos in a single post and that too, without having to clog up the entire feed. Set your creative soul free and utilize the Carousel feature the way you want and deepen your follower’s engagement.

Shanoon Cox

Shanoon Cox is a writer and a lover of all things video.

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