How to Manage Collaborative Collections on Instagram
Instagram’s collaborative collections allow you to save useful posts to a folder and invite others to add to that collection. You can also name each collaborative collection. For example, I have a collaborative collection of gadgets, law, travel hacks, dance moves, etc. Do you also want to create one or more? Here’s how to create collaborative collections, invite more than one person to this collection, and more.
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Create and Add to a Collaborative Collection
Think of themes while creating collaborative collections on Instagram like a trip you are planning with friends or an event you want to organize with friends/family.
1.Open Instagram and tap thebookmark iconbelow the post you want to save to a collaborative collection.
2.Tap on theplus iconnext to the collection name to add it to an existing collection. Tap onNew collectionto create a new collection. By default, the post will be saved to Private collection.
3.In the pop-up, name your collection and enableCollaborativeoption. You can now search for friends and add them to this collection.
4.Next time, tap on thebookmark iconand thenplus iconnext to the collaborative collection name to share the post with your friends.
WhileInstagram support pagesays you can add up to 250 people to a collaborative collection, you can’t choose more than one person. After testing the app and fooling around for a few hours, we found a clever workaround to this problem. Read on.
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Add More Than One People to Collaborative Collection
As noted, Instagram doesn’t allow you to choose more than one person while creating a collaborative collection. But it does allow you to choose a chat group.
1.In the Messages section, tap on theNew Messageicon in the top right corner and then selectCreate group chat.
2.Select friends and tap onCreate group chatoption at the bottom. Now that group chat is ready, follow the steps to create a collaborative collection as shared above but instead of adding a friend, add the group chat instead.
You canadd up to 250 people to a group chatso technically, that’s also the number of people you can have in a collaborative collection.
Find and Manage Collaborative Collections
You can add and remove people from your chat group and thereby, your collaborative collection. You can also move saved posts from one collection to another or a private collection to a collaborative collection. The steps are the same.
1.Go to yourProfile tab. Tap on thethree-lineicon in the upper right corner and selectSavedfrom the menu. You will find all your collections here including collaborative collections.
2.Go to a collection and tap on a post to open it. Then select the bookmark icon to save it to a different private or collaborative collection.
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- Can you turn a private collection into a collaborative collection?
No. However, you can create a new collaborative collection and then mark all posts or saves in your private collection to that collaborative collection.
- Can you add more people to the collaborative collection?
No. Instagram, for some reason, only allows adding one person to the collaborative collection. However, if you are using the chat group hack I shared above, you may simply add more friends to the chat group to add to the collection.
Gaurav Bidasaria
Gaurav is an editor here at TechWiser but also contributes as a writer. He has more than 10 years of experience as a writer and has written how-to guides, comparisons, listicles, and in-depth explainers on Windows, Android, web, and cloud apps, and the Apple ecosystem.
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