How to Add Music to Photos on Instagram

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This article was co-written by Kasey Dunn. Kasey Dunn is a social media specialist and senior social media manager for Gpden Arrow PR in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. With over five years of experience, she specializes in business development, marketing and brand design support. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management from Mount St. Joseph. She also holds the SEMRUSH Certification for Media Companies, the Social SEO Certification, and the Social Media Marketing Strategy Certification: TikTok and Instagram Footage.

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This is an article that shows you how to add music to photos posted on Instagram. You can use Instagram on iPhone and Android to post photos with music to the Story section of Instagram. If you want to add music to photos posted on Instagram, you need to use the free PicMusic app on your iPhone.

Table of Contents

Add music to photos posted on Story (News)

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Open the Instagram app with the multicolored camera icon to open the Instagram feed if you’re signed in.

If you’re not signed in to Instagram, enter your email address and password when prompted before continuing.

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Open the “Home” tab. If Instagram hasn’t opened the homepage, tap the house icon in the lower left corner of the screen.

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Tap Your Story at the top of the page to open the posting screen.

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Take a photo. Point the camera at the subject you want to capture, then tap the circular “Capture” button at the bottom of the screen.

If you want to select an existing photo from Camera Rpl, tap the “Photos” square in the bottom left corner of the screen, then select the photo you want to use.

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Tap the smiley icon at the top of the screen to open a selection list.

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Tap MUSIC (Music) in the selection list. This will open the popular playlist.

You may have to scroll down to find this option.

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Find songs. Tap the search bar at the top of the screen, then type the song or artist name.

You can also drag a playlist view under the Popular tab.
If the search bar shows no results, you will have to find another song.

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Select song. After finding the song you want to use, touch the song name to add it to the photo.

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Select a piece of the song to use. Touch and drag the tile on the sound wave at the bottom of the screen to the right or left.

You can reduce the number of seconds used by tapping 15 SECS (15 seconds) and dragging up to select another option.

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Tap Done in the upper-right corner of the screen.

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Move the artist tag position. If the song’s artist tag covers the photo, tap and drag the tag to a less cluttered position.

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Tap Your Story at the bottom of the screen to add a photo to your Instagram story, where followers can view it for 24 hours.

Using PicMusic

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Install PicMusic. PicMusic is a free app that lets you add music to photos taken from your iPhone’s Photos app, but note that PicMusic will place a copyright symbol on your photos. To install this app, you need to make sure your device has Instagram, then do the following:

Open

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App Store (App Store).
Tap Search in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
Tap the search bar at the top of the screen.
Type picmusic then tap Search .
Tap GET to the right of the “Pic Music” heading.
Enter your Apple ID or Touch ID password when prompted.

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Open PicMusic. Once PicMusic has been installed, tap OPEN in the App Store, or close the App Store and tap the PicMusic app on one of your iPhone’s home screen pages.

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Tap Add photos in the center of the screen.

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Select a photo to use. Tap the album from which you want to select photos, then tap the photo you want to use. You’ll see a checkmark appear on the thumbnail of that photo.

You may have to select OK first to allow PicMusic to access your photos.

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Touch

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(Done) in the upper right corner of the screen.

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Tap ☰ in the upper-right corner of the screen. This will open the selection list on the right side of the screen.

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Tap Add music in the drop-down list to open the iTunes window.

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Select song. Tap Songs in the iTunes window, then find and select the song you want to use.

Again, you may have to tap OK to allow PicMusic to access your iTunes library.

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Choose a start time. Touch and drag the sound wave left or right to change the song start time.

You can preview the start by tapping the “Play” triangle on this page.
If you don’t want your song to fade out when it’s running out of time, tap the pink “Fade” slider to turn it off.

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Touch

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in the upper right corner of the screen.

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Tap ☰ in the upper-right corner of the screen. The selection list will display again.

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Scroll down and select Instagram below the “SHARE” heading.

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Tap OK when asked. This will save the video to your iPhone’s Rpl Camera.

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Tap Open when asked to open the Instagram app.

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Tap the Library tab at the bottom left corner of the screen.

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Select your video by tapping the video thumbnail at the bottom of the screen.

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Tap Next in the upper-right corner of the screen.

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Select the filter you like, then select Next . If you want to add a filter to your video, you can tap the filter you want to use at the bottom of the screen.

Swipe the filter section left or right to see available filters.

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Enter comments if necessary. If you want to add a caption to the content you want to post, tap the “Write a caption…” box near the top of the screen, then type whatever you’d like (eg. like “Sound up!”.

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Tap Share in the upper-right corner of the screen. This way, your photo with accompanying music will be posted to the Instagram page.

Advice

If you often use PicMusic, you can pay for an upgraded version to remove the copyright icon.

Warning

Currently, there’s no way to add background music to non-story photos using the Instagram app.

Steps

Add music to photos posted on Story (News)

Using PicMusic

Advice

Warning

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