How to View, Save and Delete Draft on Your Instagram Account

Instagram is one of the best and most popular social media platforms in the world and has various features that have attracted many people from all over the world. Did you know that you can create your own custom posts, reels, and stories and save them to drafts to share them later?

Instagram Draft is one of the useful tools that you can use to prepare your content, but not publish it, and schedule them for future publication. But the question is how to access drafts on Instagram? Sometimes we may even regret publishing our posts, stories or reels, and now how can we delete the Instagram draft?

Read the rest of this article to learn more about how to delete and save drafts for stories, posts and reels with a photo guide.

Drafts on Instagram

The ability to save drafts on Instagram helps you to edit the video or images before sharing them. You can save your story, post or reel half-finished and postpone sharing it for another time.

By selecting the save draft option, the image and video is saved on cloud and when you need it, you can edit it again and share it with your followers. 

This interesting feature can be very useful for times when you are in a hurry. In the following, we will fully explain how to save drafts and delete them on Instagram.

How to Save and Delete Instagram Drafts

Now that you know how to use Instagram drafts, the important thing you should pay attention to is that Instagram drafts are automatically deleted after seven days, and when the date is about to expire, Instagram notifies you with the message "it's been a couple days since you edited this draft".

To save or delete it, you can use the following methods for any type of content, including stories, posts or reels. The following steps to save and delete drafts are exactly the same for Android and IOS devices.

Save and Delete Story Drafts

In order to know where the Instagram story draft is and how it can be saved or deleted, follow the steps below.

How to Save Story Drafts

1. Open Instagram and select the plus sign at the bottom of the screen.
2. Now select the "Story" option.
3. Select your content and edit it, then tap the up arrow.
4. A message appeared informing you that your content will be lost by exiting this editing page. Select "Save Draft" from the options to save your story in draft.

Following these steps, you could easily save stories on Instagram draft. You can use the following method to delete draft stories.

How to Delete Story Drafts

1. Open Instagram and select the plus sign at the bottom of the screen. Now you can see the "Drafts" option at the top of the screen.
2. Choose the draft story you want to delete.
3. Tap on the arrow or back icon and select the "Delete Draft" option in the displayed window.

Save and Delete Posts Drafts

Drafting posts can be a time saver for people who have a business page on Instagram. You may even be a regular user and want to share a public or close friend post, but you plan to edit and save it and publish it on another day. To save and delete drafts for Instagram posts, you can follow the following instructions.

How to Save Post Drafts

1. Open Instagram and select the plus icon and tap the "Post" tab. After that, choose your favorite photo or video.
2. Edit and tap on the arrow at the top of the page or return.
3. Now, in the message that appears, you can select "Save Draft" and draft your post.

Now, if you regret publishing the draft post and want to delete it, you can proceed with the following steps.

How to Delete Story Drafts

1. Open Instagram and select the plus icon and tap the "Post" tab. Select "Drafts" to delete the draft.
2.  In this section, select the "Manage" option.
3.  Then select the pencil option on the right side, select the post and click on the tick option at the top of the screen.
4.  On The pop-up window, select "Discard".

Save and Delete Reels Drafts

The Instagram Draft feature is very useful for reels. For example, you record the video you want and save it in the Reels draft to share it later. 

⁉️How to delete Reels on Instagram?

How to Save Reels Drafts

1. Go to Instagram app, choose or record the video and edit your Reel as you wish. You can also add music or texts then "Next".
2. In this section, you can see the "Save Draft" option at the bottom of the page.

How to Delete Reels Drafts

1. To delete an Instagram draft for a reel, just go to the reels publishing section and open the "Drafts" option.
2. Now tap on "Select" and choose the reel you want to delete.
   
   
3. Select "Discard" at the bottom of the screen.
4. Select "Discard" in the pop-up message.