If your Instagram account enables the ‘Reshare of posts to the Instagram stories’ option, you can view all public posts and share them in your Story.
But many times the problem is that this share option is not visible for all posts. For that you can’t re-share all the posts on your Instagram stories in all cases.
If you see that the Reshare option of a post is not visible in the Instagram Story, then you may have some problems with Instagram. This is usually caused by a bug or an internal setting. In this, the reshare option of an Instagram post disappears.
If you can’t find the ‘Add Post to Story’ button, read this article in full to fix this problem.
To share a post on Instagram Story, pressing the paperplane icon on a post, your story will be shared in the story in one click. But, what to do if this share option is not available?
If you don’t see the option in your own public posts, in order to fix it, you need to let the Instagram team know the problem of ‘There’s no feature to reshare to your account’.
Also, you can check the Re-share To Story option. If it’s turned on because it will enable you to share posts in Stories.
This article explains the various reasons and solutions for not being able to share a post on Instagram stories.
Why can’t I share a post on Instagram stories?
There can be various reasons why you can’t share posts on your Instagram story. Let’s find out a little bit about them below.
You’ll also find some solutions in this article, which if followed, can take the step of sharing your Instagram posts to The Instagram stories.
- Maybe the post is not public.
If you can’t share a post on Instagram Story, one of the reasons could be that the post is not public or it was posted from a private account.
a) To make sure that the post was shared from a personal account, you need to go to the Instagram app and press the three-line icon at the top.
b) After tapping on that option, some of the options above will appear, from now on select the Settings option.
c) After clicking on Settings, you need to select the Privacy option.
d) After following all the procedures, the connection option will pop up on the screen.
All you need to do in the end is to just turn off the private Account feature that you previously turned on. On a Private account, only those people you have selected will be able to view your post. Disabling this option will make your account public and your followers will be able to easily view the post shared on your Instagram story.
- Maybe your Instagram app hasn’t been updated yet.
If you can’t share a post on Instagram’s Story, there could be another reason that your Instagram app hasn’t been updated.
To update the app, you can update from the Play Store or Apple Store.
- Due to the phone catch
Another reason for this problem could be due to the data in the catch of the Instagram app stored on your phone. The way to get rid of this is to clear your phone’s cache.
If there is no problem with your Instagram app, you will be able to share any post as your Instagram Story by clicking on the paperplane icon or share button. To do this, click on the Share button that appears in the right bottom corner of any particular post, and then click on the “Add Post to Your Story” option.
“Story resharing” may have been stopped.
Another reason why you can’t share a post as a Story on Instagram is that the ” Story resharing ” option is turned off.
If for some reason you have disabled the ” Story resharing ” option from your account settings, you will not be able to share posts to your Story.
If you want to enable this feature, you can do it directly by going to the settings of your Instagram account.
Again, if you want to share someone else’s post in the story and his post resharing is stopped, then you will not get the resharing option. Even if someone else’s post is not made private, you won’t get the resharing option of their post, if its resharing option is turned off.
Resharing post to Instagram stories
If you want to enable this resharing feature of Instagram, you need to follow the steps mentioned below correctly:
- First open the Instagram app on your device. When the app is open, go to your profile menu.
- Then you’ll see a hamburger-like icon in the top right corner of your screen. Click there.
- After clicking a navigation menu will appear in front of you. It has a gear icon just below it. Press on that Gear icon.
- Then you’ll get an options screen. Here you will see an option called “Story Resharing”. Tap on that option.
How to share a post on Instagram Story?
If you can’t share posts on your Instagram Story due to some error or internal issues, then you can solve this problem quickly. Below are some of the solutions:
1.Make your posts public for friends.
Did you know your friends can also share your posts on their Instagram stories. But for this, your account needs to be public. You should also enable the “Story Resharing” option on your account. If your Instagram account is private, your friends won’t be able to share your posts on their Stories.
Similarly, you want to put a friend’s post on your story. But it turned out that the friend’s account was made private. Even then, you can’t share his post on your story. All you can do is request your friend to make his account public from private.
To make an Instagram account public, you need to follow the steps mentioned below:
Step 1: First of all, open the Instagram app on your device.
Step 2: Now press the icon on your profile.
Step 3: Now press on the right-hand corner of the profile section.
Step 4: Then some menus will pop up, click on “Settings” from this menu.
Step 5: After that, click on the “Privacy” option.
Step 6: Then click on the option that says “Account Privacy” that appears under the “Connection” section.
Step 7: Now move the toggle button on “Account Privacy” to the left.
Step 8: After toggling, the button will turn from blue to a grey color. This will make your account public from private.
In this way, an Instagram profile can be changed from private to public.
2. Ask Instagram for help.
If you find that the “Add to Story” option is not available on your Instagram account. Then you can ask the Instagram support team to solve this problem. The Instagram Help Center can be easily accessed through the app.
All you need to do is open your Instagram app and go to your profile settings. After that, you have to fill out the problem form by informing them about the ‘re-share option missing in your story’. They will fix the bug if there is a bug in your account or you can let you know the details about how you can activate it yourself.
If you want to contact the Instagram support team about any problems with your Instagram account, you can follow the steps mentioned below:
Step 1: First, open the Instagram app on your device.
Step 2: Then go to your profile option.
Step 3: Open the account settings on this profile.
Step 4: Scroll down to the bottom of these settings. At one time you will see an option called “Help”.
Step 5: Click on this ‘Help’ option.
Step 6: Then four different options will pop up in front of you. Select the Help Center option among them.
Step 7: If you click on that option, you will appear in the web browser of Instagram’s Help Center.
Step 8: You can type your problem in the search box here. Fill in all the details of your problem and submit it.
And finally, the Instagram support team will help you with your problems. It will even provide your troubleshooting steps to share stories.
Following the steps described above will now make your Instagram account public. As a result, all your friends or followers will have the opportunity to share your posts on their Instagram Stories.
Conclusion
As explained in this article, what could be the reasons for your not getting the re-share option on Instagram stories.
And at the same time, the Instagram team has been specifically discussed about what the methods of solving the problems described above can be by informing them about this problem or by changing some settings according to some tips.