Did you see someone’s Instagram story that you liked a lot? Are you now wondering how to share someone’s story on Instagram? It might be more difficult than just sharing someone’s post on your story as posts are there to stay and stories are temporary.
Usually, the content people post on Instagram stories is temporary in itself. People post birthday wishes, news updates, trending content, and more such time-bound content on Instagram stories. The content that you post on your stories remains there for your followers to see only for 24 hours. So if you want the content to last forever you could either post it as an Instagram post or you could add your stories to highlights.
It’s easy to share someone’s Instagram story if you’re tagged in it. But if you aren’t tagged you will have to take a few extra steps. Let’s see how to share someone’s story on Instagram and how to share someone’s post on Instagram:
How To Repost Someone’s Story On Instagram?
Sharing someone’s story on Instagram is tricky.
So assuming that you are tagged in a story here are the steps on how to share someone’s story to your story:
- Open Instagram DMs a then open the chat of the person who has tagged you in their Instagram story.
- Tap on ‘Add to your story’ and the story will be added immediately.
Once your story is added they will get a notification that you have reshared their story.
How To Post Someone’s Post On Your Story?
Unlike Instagram stories that you need to be tagged in, Instagram posts are much easier to share on stories. Here are the steps on how to share someone’s Instagram post to your story:
- Open Instagram and go to the post you want to share on your story.
- Tap on the paper airplane icon to share the post and then select ‘Add post to your story’.
- If you want to add any elements to it you can do that and then tap on ‘Your story’ to publish the story.
When you share someone’s post in your story they automatically get tagged in your story. So they can reshare your story on theirs if they want to. This is also a good way to repost your own posts on stories. Sharing your posts on stories will bring people’s attention to your post in case they lose them in the feed. People go through stories more often than they go through the feed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1. Do I Get A Notification If Someone Shares My Story?
Yes. You will get a DM if someone shares your Instagram story.
Q2. Why Can’t I Share Someone’s Story On My Story?
If you aren’t tagged in an Instagram story you won’t be able to share it on your story.
Q3. Why Can’t I Share Someone’s Post On My Story?
If the profile of the person who made the post is set on Private you won’t be able to share the post on your story. We have explained this issue in more depth.
Q4. How To Send A Story As A Direct Message?
Click on the share icon on the story and Send it to any of your contacts in the DMs.
Q5. How To Share A Story Outside Of Instagram?
The only way you can share a story outside of Instagram is send it on Facebook Messenger to your Facebook friends.
Conclusion
If you’re reposting someone’s story or post make sure it is relevant to you and your followers. Just reposting random content will make you lose followers. Instead of resharing every fun post you see, you could just share it with your friends in their DMs. This way you’re only sharing relevant content with relevant people without sharing it with all your Instagram followers.
Hopefully, you learned how to share someone’s story on Instagram as well as how to share someone’s post on Instagram. Stories being temporary there is also a time constraint. If you share someone’s story on Instagram too late it might disappear within hours. So you have more to worry about when you’re sharing stories as opposed to when you’re sharing posts on your story.
So go ahead and reshare that birthday wish story with a thank you to show your love to your friends!
There are so many things you can share on an Instagram story? For example, you can share a YouTube video on your story!