Instagram is one of the leading social media networks all over the world. It is one of the best social media platforms to connect and reach out to people.
Instagram stories are an effective way of keeping the audience busy. By reposting Instagram stories, people can earn credibility by other users’ content. Reposting is a great way of supporting, advertising, and sharing love within the community.
Due to several Instagram settings reposting a story is not as simple as it seems. In this article, we will share some simple hacks of reposting Instagram stories with ease.
How To Repost An Instagram Post On Your Stories:
Reposting an Instagram post to your story is very simple. All you have to do is follow these steps.
Step 1: Go to the post you would like to add to your story.
Step 2: Besides the comment symbol, you will find an airplane symbol, the share option.
Step 3: Tap on the airplane symbol; you’ll get an option “ add post to your story” tap on that option.
Step 4: At the left-hand side bottom, there will be an option “your story” tap on that, and you are done.
And your story is posted! It’s that simple.
How to repost stories (when you are tagged):
If someone on their Instagram stories has tagged you, then the option to reshare the stories appears in your DM’s by default.
Step 1: Open your DM to the person who had tagged you in their story.
Step 2: There, you will find an option of “add this to your story” click on that
Step 3: After that, you can edit the story as per your convenience and reshare it by tapping on “your story” at the bottom left-hand side icon.
How to repost Instagram stories when you are not tagged:
There is no way to repost an Instagram story if you are not tagged directly.
For reposting a picture, you have a screenshot (press hold the home button and volume button simultaneously ), and for reposting a short video, you need to screen record it.
Step 1: scroll to the drop-down menu.
Step 2: tap on-screen record.
Step 3: From the given options, choose “ media-sound.”
After screen recording, you can now upload the video/picture to your story. It is usually advisable to take the content creator’s permission, or you can tag them in the story.
Note: Make sure to give credits to the owner of the story or even ask them before reposting their content.
How to post stories from your own account:
Steps to post Instagram stories from your own account are as follows:
Step 1: Open the Instagram app on your mobile.
Step 2: At the upper left-hand corner, you will see you will have an “+” sign with your profile picture on it.
Step 3: Click on that icon; you can now click a picture and directly add it to your story or select an image/ video and post it on your story.
And there you have your own story on your account!
How to repost someone’s post on Instagram:
To repost someone else’s post has many restrictions. Firstly you have to check if that person’s account is public or private.
Instagram has a setting where a user can turn off resharing their posts.
In these cases, you have to screen record the image or video and then share it on your story.
If the other person has a public account, then u can share the post by clicking on the airplane icon and adding it to your story.
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Final Thoughts
Instagram having various settings can sometimes make sharing/resharing posts and stories a little complicated. In this article, we have tried to cover all possible ways and methods of resharing posts on Instagram and important details connected to it.
We hope that our article solves your queries and you enjoy using Instagram without much difficulty.