With AI Carousels, you can create a ready-made carousel post in a few taps: AI writes the text and lays out your photos across the slides in the style of the preset you choose.
How to Create an AI Carousel:
Open the Instories app.
On the Explore tab, find the AI tools section and tap See all.
Select the carousel tool.
Choose how to start: upload your photos and AI will build the carousel around them, or describe your idea in a few words. You can type the idea, paste it with Paste, or dictate it with voice input.
If you started with photos, you’ll see three idea suggestions picked for your photos. Tap Improve: with an empty field, AI writes an idea based on your photos; with your own text, AI rewrites it to fit the photos.
Optionally, tap + Brand kit to make the carousel in your brand’s style (see below).
Choose one of 44 presets. Presets that suit your idea and photos come first, and each preset card shows a few example slides.
Start the generation.
👉 Already have the text for each slide? Write it slide by slide (for example, “Slide 1: …, Slide 2: …”) — AI will put your words on the slides exactly as written.
👉 Improve can be used up to 20 times each time you open the creation window. If you see “You’ve reached the Improve limit for this session”, close the window and open it again.
👉 In some presets, AI decides for each photo whether to remove its background: products and outfits (for example, sneakers or a bottle) are cut out and placed on a clean slide background, while streets, interiors and food stay as they are.
How to Use a Brand Kit in Carousels:
Tap + Brand kit, then Create new kit.
Add a link to your Instagram profile. AI builds a kit from it: your colors, fonts, tone of voice and calls to action. Your carousel will be made in this style.
Don’t want to use Instagram? Set your brand colors instead: choose four colors for Background, Text, Accent and Muted. Tap a color to change it.
Select your kit or colors in the list and tap Use.
👉 To make a carousel without your brand style, select No brand kit and tap Use. To change or delete a kit, tap ⋯ next to it and choose Edit or Delete.
When the carousel is ready, you can edit it in the full Instories editor — change the text, swap photos, add elements, and more. Your carousels are saved in Projects, in the AI Generations section.
To post the carousel to Instagram, tap Instagram on the export screen. All slides open in the Share window — choose how to publish them (photos, video or slideshow).