Facebook is working on a function to cross-post Stories to Instagram – IT Pro – News

Facebook is experimenting with a function to also post the Stories on the social network on Instagram. A researcher found the position in the app. For this, Facebook uses the technology that also makes the reverse possible.

The feature became first discovered by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who often makes such discoveries in applications. Wong discovered a feature in the privacy settings of the Stories feature in the Facebook app. It says ‘Share Story on Instagram’. Users who enable the function will see ‘Share as Story’ again. It is not clear whether users can also see which of their friends have viewed a Story and via which app.

Facebook confirms against TechCrunch that it works on the function. For this, the company uses the same technology that it previously used to post Instagram Stories on Facebook. A separate tool has been available for that function since 2017. Facebook has been working for some time on the possibility of integrating the social network with subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp. The latter too has had Stories for a few years now, in the form of WhatsApp Status. Facebook wants to change the underlying code of all three apps to enable mutual communication.

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