how to share a post on instagram

How to Repost Instagram Feed Posts, Stories, IGTV, and Reels

- Sharing and reposting has always been,a challenge on Instagram.,We're gonna walk you through the different,sharing options you have,,and a few work arounds for resharing content,that you normally can't.,(bright music),In this video, you'll learn all about resharing,content on Instagram.,We'll cover how you can share feed post,,stories, reels, and IGTV videos within Instagram,,and be sure to stick around until the end.,I'll be sharing the things you need to keep in mind,to reshare your content safely,,and keep you out of legal trouble.,One of the things people love most on other platforms,is the ability to reshare other people's content and posts.,You can share a post to your stories,,from any posts on Instagram, yours, or someone else's,,click on the piper airplane icon,,and choose to share to your story.,This is a great way to highlight your own feed post,,and that content with your audience,,especially if you tend to get more views on your stories,than you do on your feed posts.,You can also share other accounts' posts,,which is great for collaboration, brand partnerships,,or helpful tips and resources,that your audience would enjoy.,This is also helpful when you want to resurface older,evergreen content with your audience.,When you share a post to your story,,the original post image is imported into the story,,and the image is clickable taking viewers who tap on it,directly to the original post.,Like any story you can add doodles, stickers,,or texts to draw attention to the posts,,and incentivize people to click.,I should point out that while this is,a widely rolled out feature not everyone has it.,I have it on all my accounts, except my main account.,In addition to sharing your feed post to your stories,,you can share any post, story, or IGTV,to a direct message chat.,This could be a single DM or a group DM,that you are a part of.,To share to a direct message,simply tap on the piper airplane icon from any post,,and choose the person or direct message group,to share it to.,It will go directly to their DM thread or start a new one.,At this point, you're free to customize your message,,or carry on the conversation however you choose.,Now, when it comes to stories,,you can only reshare a story to your own story,,if you were tagged in the original content.,If someone tags you in a story,,you'll get that notification in your direct messages,from there, or from the story itself,,you have the option to share to your story.,Once you choose that option,,that story post will appear in your own story builder,,and you can pinch and zoom to resize it or move it.,And then you can add stickers, doodles,,and texts like any other story.,If someone tags you in the first story of a sequence,,and not in the subsequent ones,,you can only share the one in which you are tagged.,So if you're tagging people in your stories,,make sure you tag them at each individual one,that you mentioned them in, or that are related.,You can also share IGTV to stories and the feed.,When you upload your IGTV video,you have the option to add previews to the feed and stories.,If you share a preview to the feed,,a 15 second preview of the IGTV video,will appear in your profile,and in the feed of your followers.,Once the 15 second preview ends,,viewers are prompted with a keep watching bar,to view the remainder of the video on IGTV.,Similarly, if you share an IGTV video to your story,,a preview of the video and a link to the IGTV video,will appear in the story for your viewers,to navigate to IGTV to watch the whole video.,And when it comes to Instagram reels,,you can share your own reels or anyone else's reels,by opening up the full view reel,,and tapping on the piper airplane icon,so that you can share it to your story,,or to a DM.,So these are all the ways,you can share natively within Instagram.,You can't natively share a feed post,from someone else to your own feed,,and you can't share stories from others,to your own stories simply because you like them.,When it comes to resharing content to the feed,,here's what you can do.,First, you can use reposting tools which are,third party tools that allow you,to capture the original image and caption,,and import it into an Instagram post of your own.,These typically also add a watermark to the image,with the original accounts username,,and will include a brief message like repost from,,at, and then the username.,While these used to be super common a few years ago,,API access restrictions,have made these more cumbersome today.,The easier option now is to take a screengrab,of the image you wanna post and crop that,to the size of the image and upload that as a new image,to your account.,When you use a screenshot method,,you will still have to copy the original caption,,or write your own to compliment the image.,Now, you may be wondering how legal or safe,is it to simply screengrab someone else's content.,When you use a screenshot method or any resharing method,for the feed, the original 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