How to Make Instagram Highlight Covers That Match Your Profile

Updated: 2026-10-21 · 2 min read

To make matching Instagram highlight covers, pick one background colour and one icon style, create a cover for each highlight (travel, food, friends…), save them to your photos, then on your profile press and hold a highlight → Edit highlight → Edit cover and choose the image. Allapulla has ready-made cover sets where you choose a style and icons and save the whole set at once.

Why matching covers help

Highlights sit right under your bio, so they are one of the first things people see on your profile. A consistent set of covers makes the profile look tidy and tells visitors what they will find in each highlight.

1. Pick a style

Choose one background colour or texture and one icon style, and use them for every cover. Neutral tones (sand, cream, olive, navy) work with almost any feed. Avoid tiny details – the cover is shown as a small circle.

2. Decide your highlights

Most profiles need four to eight, for example: Travel, Food, Friends, Home, Work, Recipes. Short one-word labels are easiest to read.

3. Create the covers

In Allapulla:

Open Highlights and pick a cover set (for example Sand, Night, Blush or Olive).
Choose an icon or type any emoji for each highlight, and adjust the label.
Tap Save – the covers are saved to your photos.

Allapulla shows a preview of how the set looks on an Instagram profile before you save.

4. Add them on Instagram

Go to your profile and press and hold the highlight you want to change.
Tap Edit highlight, then Edit cover.
Tap the gallery icon and pick the cover image.
Centre it in the circle and tap Done.

Repeat for each highlight. Adding a cover this way does not post anything to your story.

Tips

Keep the icon centred with plenty of space around it, since Instagram crops to a circle.
Reuse the same set when you add a new highlight so the row stays consistent.
Update your covers seasonally if you like change – it takes a few minutes with a saved set.