The Edits carousel editor lets you build Instagram carousels inside Instagram’s standalone Edits app. You drop in photos and videos, pick a layout, reuse your Edits fonts and text styles, cut out your own stickers, then post straight to Instagram or download the result. Instagram’s @creators account announced it on 7 October 2026. It’s on iOS now, with Android “coming soon”.
That matters if your carousels exist to send people somewhere. The editor makes the slides faster to build. What happens after the last slide says “link in bio” is still up to you.
Below: what the editor does, who has it, how to use it, and a slide-by-slide structure that ends on the exact thing waiting at your link. Then how to see which carousel drove the clicks.
Key Takeaways
- Edits now builds carousels. Photos and videos, layouts, Edits fonts and text styles, and cutout stickers, announced by Instagram’s @creators account on 7 October 2026.
- It’s iOS only for now. Instagram gives no date for Android.
- You can post straight to Instagram or download the file, and saved presets for fonts, colours and audio carry over from your other Edits projects.
- The engagement numbers around the launch aren’t Meta’s. The nine-times-the-saves figure comes from Metricool’s 2026 study.
- The last slide should name the exact thing at your link, and that link should sit at the top of your bio page when the carousel goes live.
What does the Edits carousel editor do?
The Edits carousel editor turns Edits into a carousel builder. You add photos and videos, arrange them in layouts, style text with your saved Edits fonts, cut out stickers from your own images, and let a photo or a headline run across more than one slide. When you finish, you post the carousel to Instagram from inside Edits or download it.
Instagram’s own announcement reads: “Drop in photos and videos, play with fun layouts, repurpose Edits fonts and text styles, and cutout your own stickers to use across your content” (instagram.com, October 2026).
Net Influencer’s coverage fills in the detail. A photo can bleed across slides and a headline can carry over several frames. Edits’ existing colour grading, scale, rotation, layout and cutout tools work inside carousel projects, and saved presets for fonts, colours and audio carry over from your other projects (netinfluencer.com, October 2026).
“When we asked creators what they hoped Edits could do next, carousels came up again and again,” said Dan Moreno, a design engineer on the Edits team, as quoted by Net Influencer.
Who can use the carousel editor right now?
iPhone users first. Instagram’s @creators post says the feature is “available now on iOS, coming soon to Android” and gives no Android date. The post names no follower minimum or account type. If you’re on iOS and don’t see it yet, update Edits before assuming you’re left out.
Social Media Today reported the same iOS-first split on 7 October (socialmediatoday.com, October 2026).
The finished post still follows Instagram’s carousel rules, including the 20-slide limit covered in the FAQ below. On Android, the structure in this guide works with whatever editor you use today. Only the build step changes.
How do you make an Instagram carousel in Edits?
Open Edits on your iPhone, go to Projects and choose Carousels, which is the path Instagram’s announcement gives. From there you add media, pick a layout, style the text, cut out any stickers, and either post to Instagram or download the file.
- Update Edits on your iPhone and open it.
- Go to Projects and tap Carousels.
- Drop in your photos and videos in the order you want people to swipe them.
- Pick a layout. Where it helps, let a photo bleed across two slides so the first swipe feels like a continuation.
- Add text with your Edits fonts and text styles. A headline can carry across frames, which suits a hook that finishes on slide two.
- Cut out stickers from your own images, and apply your saved presets so fonts, colours and audio match the rest of your content.
- Post straight to Instagram, or download the carousel to use elsewhere.
If your carousel starts life as a long video or a blog post, repurposing content with AI covers pulling slide copy out of a transcript before you open Edits.
What does Edits handle, and what’s still on you?
Edits handles the build: slides, layouts, type, stickers, presets and the upload. It doesn’t decide what the carousel is for, what the last slide promises, or where that promise leads. Those parts live in your caption, on your bio page and in your link analytics, and they’re the parts that turn a swipe into a click.
| Job | In the Edits carousel editor | Still on you, elsewhere |
|---|---|---|
| Slides, layouts and text | Yes, with Edits fonts and text styles | Writing copy worth swiping for |
| A photo or headline across slides | Yes | Choosing where the swipe should pull |
| A consistent look | Saved presets for fonts, colours and audio | Keeping those presets current |
| Publishing | Post to Instagram or download | Anything you do with a downloaded file |
| Android | Not yet, no date given | Another editor until then |
| The link behind “link in bio” | Outside its scope | Your bio page, updated before the post goes live |
| Which carousel drove the clicks | Outside its scope | Link analytics with post-level attribution |
How should you structure a carousel that sends people to your link?
Give every slide one job and make the last slide a hand-off. Open with a hook, deliver the value in steps, add a recap people will want to keep, and close on a slide that names the exact thing waiting at your link. A vague “link in bio” gives nobody a reason to leave the app. A named, counted thing does.
Here’s an 8-slide version for a travel creator with a carry-on packing list:
| Slide | Job | What goes on it |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hook | The promise in under ten words: “Pack a week into one carry-on” |
| 2 | Stakes | The headline carried over from slide 1, plus the problem it solves |
| 3 | Step one | One rule, one photo |
| 4 | Step two | One rule, one photo |
| 5 | Step three | One rule, one photo |
| 6 | Proof | The packed bag, open, in a single photo |
| 7 | Recap | All three rules on one slide, built to be saved |
| 8 | Hand-off | The exact thing at the link: “The full 32-item list is the first link in my bio” |
Slide 7 is there for saves. Metricool’s 2026 study of more than 24 million Instagram posts found carousels earned nine times the saves of single-image posts (netinfluencer.com, October 2026). That’s Metricool’s figure, not Meta’s, and the launch post itself carried no numbers. Why saves and sends count for more than likes is covered in shares and saves vs likes.
Slide 8 does the selling. Name the object, its size or count, and where it sits on your page. Repeat the same line as the first line of your caption, so people who skip straight to the caption see it too. For more wording by goal, see these call to action examples for creator posts.
How do you make the last slide land on the right link?
Put the promised link at the top of your bio page before the carousel goes live, and keep it there while the post is collecting views. If slide 8 says “first link in my bio”, the first link has to be that list. If visitors land on last week’s offer instead, the carousel made a promise your page didn’t keep.
Doing this by hand is the step that slips. You post, you get busy, and the page still leads with the old link. On More.You, auto-pin covers it: when a scheduled post goes live, its link pins to the top of your page automatically, for the number of hours you choose. The set-up is in how auto-pin works.
If you post straight from Edits instead of scheduling, move the link up yourself first. For the other routes to the same page, driving traffic from Instagram covers Story stickers and Reels CTAs.
How do you see which carousel drove the clicks?
Count clicks per post, not likes per post. Likes and saves tell you a carousel was enjoyed or kept. They don’t tell you whether slide 8 sent anyone to your page. Link analytics with post-level attribution do, by tying each click on your page back to the post that produced it.
More.You’s analytics show page views, clicks and CTR per block, broken down by source, device and country, plus post-level attribution. So you can see that Tuesday’s packing carousel drove the clicks on your checklist link and Friday’s didn’t.
Then test the hand-off: run two carousels with different slide-8 wording, keep everything else the same, and compare the clicks. After a few rounds you’ll know which promise your audience acts on.
Edits now builds the carousel. Your page has to keep the promise on its last slide and show you which carousel earned the click. Create your More.You page so the link your carousel names can pin to the top when the post goes live, and every click traces back to the post that sent it.
FAQ
Is the Edits carousel editor available on Android?
Not yet. Instagram’s 7 October announcement says it’s “available now on iOS, coming soon to Android” and gives no Android date (instagram.com, October 2026). Until then, use your current editor and the same slide structure.
How many slides can an Instagram carousel have?
Up to 20 photos or videos, a limit Instagram doubled from 10 in August 2024 (techcrunch.com, August 2024). Instagram’s Edits announcement doesn’t state a separate cap for carousels built in the app.
Can I post an Edits carousel straight to Instagram?
Yes. You can post a finished carousel to Instagram from inside Edits, or download it to use elsewhere (netinfluencer.com, October 2026).
Do carousels get more saves than single photos?
In Metricool’s 2026 Instagram study, carousels earned nine times the saves of single-image posts (metricool.com, June 2026). That’s third-party data, and Instagram’s launch post carried no figures.
Sources
- Instagram’s @creators announcement, 7 October 2026: feature wording, the Projects and Carousels path, iOS and Android availability (instagram.com, October 2026)
- Edits carousel tools and iOS-first availability (socialmediatoday.com, October 2026)
- Feature details, posting or downloading, Dan Moreno’s quote, and Metricool’s saves figure as reported (netinfluencer.com, October 2026)
- Metricool 2026 Instagram Study press release: nine times the saves for carousels, 24,364,803 posts analysed (metricool.com, June 2026)
- Instagram raising the carousel limit to 20 photos or videos (techcrunch.com, August 2024)
- More.You product brief, docs/moreyou/01-product-brief.md, sections 2 and 3 (auto-pin, analytics, post-level attribution)
