How To Save A Song Or Audio On Instagram? Complete Guide

In Australia, Instagram has 10 million monthly active users and is the most popular platform for visual content like photos, videos, and reels. Influencers, private accounts, and creative companies also call Instagram home.

Users of Instagram can save not only the audio but the entire page, which is made up of reels with single audio, as well.

How to save a song or audio on Instagram? Be at ease; the procedure is fairly simple. Let’s get started by learning how to save music on Instagram in the following article.

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How To Save A Song Or Audio On Instagram?

Save Audio From Instagram Reels And Use It In Your Instagram Story

The quickest way to create an Instagram Story with your favorite audio is to save the audio from an existing Reel and then add it to your Instagram Story while creating it. To achieve the same results, follow these steps.

Open Instagram on your phone and locate the reel whose audio you wish to use in your story.
Tap on the song title that is present at the bottom of the reel.
Copy the song name somewhere to use it later while creating the story. You can also save this song to your Instagram profile by tapping on the Save Audio button.

Now, navigate back to the home screen and swipe towards the left to open the camera for creating an Instagram Story.
Tap on the camera shutter button to click a snap or long-press it to record the video as Story.

Further, tap on the sticker icon at the top and press the music sticker to add music to your story.
In the search bar, type the name of the song that you copied earlier from the Instagram reel.

Adjust your music duration and choose the music display format to add it to your story. Tap on the Done button at the top right corner of the app screen to finalize adding music.
Tap on the Your Story button at the bottom to upload the story to your profile.

That completes the process of using your audio file to successfully create an Instagram Story.

Replace Your Video’s Audio With Local Audio And Post It As Instagram Story

Instagram doesn’t offer any official method to add your local audio directly to your stories. However, there’s a working trick to add your local audio (audio saved on your device) to your To create an Instagram Story, adhere to these instructions.

Open the Instagram app on your phone and create a new story.
Tap on the sound icon at the top and mute the recorded story.
Now, tap on the three-dot icon in the top right corner of the screen and press the Save option to save the muted story to your device.

The next step is to add your local audio which is present in your device to this saved video using a video editor app.
To add audio to your video on Android or iPhone, refer to the instructions below.
It’s time to post this video as your Instagram Story now that you’ve successfully created it with your preferred added audio.
Open your Instagram app and swipe to the left to start creating a new Story.
Tap on the Browse icon at the bottom left corner of the app to locate and choose your created video.
Tap on the Your Story button to post the video as an Instagram Story.

How To Find Saved Audio On Instagram?

Simply follow the steps below to locate saved audio on Instagram:

In your Instagram app, click on your profile tab (bottom-right)
Tap the menu button (upper-right) and select ‘Saved’
You can access all of your saved music by opening the “Audio” folder.

How To Share Music From Instagram Reels?

Now that you are aware of how simple it is to save music on Instagram, let’s move on to discussing how to share your saved music:

Repeat the steps from the section above and once you find the audio you’d like to share, click on its title
You’ll be forwarded to a page with all the reels that use this audio
To share the audio, click on the ‘paper plane’ icon in the upper-right corner and send it to others through DM
If you want to share the audio on another app, click on the three dots in the upper-right corner, right next to the arrow
Select the ‘copy link’ option
Sharing the audio across platforms is possible by copying the link.

Note: Only iOS and Android smartphones can use the “save audio” feature; the web app is not compatible. Additionally, you cannot directly download the audio to your phone; instead, you can only copy the link and send it to friends.

How To Save And Add Music To The Instagram Business Account?

You cannot use music from a recorded artist for your Instagram business account due to copyright issues as music is one of the most frequently pirated types of media content. It’s fairly simple to get around since this only affects business accounts.

Instagram initially only offered two different kinds of profiles: a profile for yourself and one for your business. The creator profile, the newest feature of the platform, provides all of the same features as a business profile in addition to the simplicity of saving and using music.

Changing to a creator profile (whether your profile is currently personal or professional):

Open the Instagram app
Go to your profile tab
Tap the menu button in the upper right corner of your Instagram profile
Tap ‘Settings’
Select ‘Account’ from the menu
Scroll down to ‘Switch Account Type’
Pick “creator account” from the menu.

You can add music to an Instagram Business account in three more ways:

1. Utilize the authentic music shared by other Instagram accounts. In the lower-left corner, instead of the name of the artist and song, you’ll frequently see this with business profiles.

2. Change the “entrepreneur” category in your profile:

Open your Instagram account
Tap on “Edit profile”
Edit your profile category so that it says “entrepreneur”

3. The profile category may also be hidden using this option. In the “Profile Display” section, you can make it disappear by turning off the category label. However, hiding a profile category will also remove it from your bio, making it impossible for others to learn what you do.

Even though you won’t have labels on your business Instagram account, some people might still be perplexed by this. On the plus side, you can continue to use Instagram music.

How Can Saved Audio Be Used On Instagram Stories?

Similar steps must be followed, but this time you must tap “Saved” after clicking on the “Music” sticker to access all previously saved audio files. Select your preferred audio, then customize it before posting your story.

Note: Only iPhone users can add music to their Instagram stories from the “Saved” section. Instagram stories for Android users only allow reels; saved audio is not supported.

Add Music From The Spotify App

You can also include Spotify music in your Instagram Story:

With the song playing on Spotify, click on the ‘Share’ icon
Select the Instagram icon
Once the song appears on your Instagram, simply press the ‘Your Story’ button
The song will be posted on your Instagram Story

Add Music From The Soundcloud App

Similar to how Spotify works, this procedure is:

Open the SoundCloud App
Select a song that you like
Click ‘Share’
Select the Instagram logo
Share the song on your Instagram Story

Tip To Use Saved Audio Directly In Instagram Reels

Instagram also offers you the option to directly use your desired audio in creating any uploaded random reel that is an Instagram Reel. To make your own reel using your preferred audio, simply follow these simple steps.

Open the Instagram app on your phone and locate the reel whose audio you wish to use in creating your own reel.
Tap on the audio title used in the reel and further tap on the Use Audio button to start creating your own reel using this audio.
You will notice that the chosen audio starts playing automatically when you record your own Instagram reel.

FAQs

How can you add music from Instagram to your gallery?

Downloading the video will allow you to save Instagram music to your gallery. To begin, open the video you want to download and click on the three dots in its upper right corner. Then select “Download.”

Why can’t I save music on Instagram?

Because Instagram is not a music app, you cannot save music on it.

How can music from Instagram DM be saved?

You must take a screenshot of the song and then save it in order to save music from Instagram DM.

How can music be downloaded to a phone from Instagram?

SoundCloud is an app that you can use to download music from Instagram to your phone.

How do I download a song off of Instagram?

You can download the screenshot of the song as your phone’s album cover in order to save a song from Instagram.

The Bottom Line

We hope you now understand how to use the recorded audio on your Instagram Story by using the techniques mentioned above. All you have to do to access the saved audio is navigate to the reels section of the Instagram music library.