Are you a new instagram user and are worried about does instagram notify when you screenshot on the platform or not? If this is the case then you have landed at the correct place where you will get to know if instagram really notifies the user or not.

Screenshotting a story on instagram – Know if you can do it or not

The answer to the question is simple, that no, instagram does not notifies the users when you take a screen shot of their story which means if you like someone’s story you can take a screen shot of the same and keep it with you.
If you are a creator then you must also want to know how to know if someone screenshots your instagram story. Well, since we already told you that instagram does not sends notification about this, it means you can know this.
But you can surely know who watched your story by looking at the views on your story and if you want some people not to see your story then you can put up a story only including your close friends to watch.

When does Notifications is sent by instagram?

Even though instagram does not send screenshot instagram story notification but it notifies the users when a screenshot has been taken of a message in vanish mode or in a disappearing photo or video.
If you will take a screen shot of a message in vanish mode then “your username took a screenshot” will be visible on the screen to the other person.
Now, that you know this you must avoid taking a screenshot of the messages in vanish mode or of disappearing photo or video, if you want you can screen shot the posts, stories, etc on instagram which will not notify anyone about it.