When you’ve posted a new picture on your Instagram account, you might want to give it a boost by sharing it on your story. That’s how it’s done.
Social media apps are notorious for trial and error. From Twitter’s “fleets” to Instagram’s activity log, it’s impossible to predict which features will flop and which will be a fan favorite.
The August 2021 Instagram update included a brand new way to reshare posts in your Stories, but not everyone was a fan, and some claimed the new process was “more difficult”.
However, it seems that the app has changed since then to allow for a much simpler system when it comes to sharing your posts on your Instagram story. Here’s how to do it.
Instagram remains an extremely popular social media app.
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How to share a post on your Instagram story
Now that Instagram has gone back to the easier process, sharing a post to your story shouldn’t be too difficult.
To reshare a post on Instagram, you must:
- Open Instagram.
- Go to Post You want to share your story.
- click on the triangular share button under the picture.
- Choose ‘Add post to story.’
- Move and scale the image to your liking and add any text or stickers you want to add.
- press the ,Your story’ Upload button.’
You can share your own posts as well as other users’ uploads as long as they have enabled the feature.
How to enable story sharing
If you want to allow other people to share your posts, you need to make sure your settings allow it.
You can toggle this in your settings.
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- Tap yours profile pic to go to your profile.
- Tap the three lines top right, then go to the settings.
- Click, ,Privacy’ then ,Story.’
- Look for the button next to “Allow story sharing” is rotated to the on position (Note: your account must be public for this option to be available.
Sharing posts to your story can be a great way to improve your own uploads as well as other people’s.
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