Instagram not sharing to Facebook? 5 Ways to fix it!

Instagram not sharing to Facebook

Cross-posting makes it extremely easy for you to publish your Instagram posts to a connected Facebook account. While cross-posting can be an excellent way to save time and reach a wider audience, many users have reported issues where this feature doesn’t work for them on their iPhones.

If you’ve also encountered a similar issue, you’ve come to the right place. Below, I’ve listed five fixes that can help fix Instagram not sharing to Facebook on your iPhone. So, let’s dive in!

  1. Ensure that your Instagram and Facebook accounts are linked
  2. Change Instagram sharing preferences in Meta Accounts Centre
  3. Relink your Facebook account to Instagram
  4. Re-login to your Instagram and Facebook account
  5. Change your Facebook Account’s Password

1. Ensure that your Instagram and Facebook accounts are linked

One of the prerequisites for sharing your Instagram post on Facebook is to have both accounts linked together. Therefore, you must ensure that both accounts are properly connected before you share anything.

  1. Launch Instagram on your iPhone → Tap your profile picture at the bottom right.
  2. Select the hamburger menu from the top right.
  3. Tap Settings and privacy.

    Go to Settings and privacy in Instagram
  4. Navigate to Accounts CentreConnected experiencesSharing across profiles.

    Navigate to Sharing across profiles in Instagram
  5. Check if your Facebook account is listed on the page. If it’s not, move on to the next step.
  6. Tap Add accounts and select Add Facebook account.
  7. Enter your Facebook account credentials and tap Continue.
    You won’t need to enter anything if you have Facebook installed.

    Connect Your Facebook account with Instagram

2. Change Instagram sharing preferences in Meta Accounts Centre

Once you link your Instagram account with Facebook, you must select what content you want to share to your Facebook account or a page connected to your Facebook account.

If you haven’t done this, follow the steps below to change the Instagram sharing preferences in Meta Accounts Centre.

  1. In Instagram, tap your profile picture at the bottom right.
  2. Select the hamburger menu → Tap Settings and privacy.
  3. Navigate to Accounts CentreConnected experiencesSharing across profiles.
  4. Tap and select your Instagram username.
  5. Under Share to, select your main Facebook profile instead of the pages connected to it.
  6. Under the Automatically share label, toggle on Your Instagram story, Your Instagram posts, and Your Instagram reels.

    Toggle on Automatically Share

Often glitches or bugs within Facebook and Instagram can prevent cross-posting from working as expected. If you want to phase out the possibility of this being the issue, you must relink your Facebook account to your Instagram account, as detailed in the steps listed below.

  1. In Instagram, tap your profile picture.
  2. Select the hamburger menu → Tap Settings and privacy.
  3. Navigate to Accounts CentreAccounts.
  4. Tap the Remove button next to your Facebook profile.

    Remove Facebook Account from Instagram
  5. On the confirmation page, tap Remove account.
  6. Then, tap Continue → Choose Remove <Your Facebook Name>.

    Remove your Facebook Account from Instagram
  7. Now, follow the steps listed in the first solution to link your Facebook account to Instagram.

4. Re-login to your Instagram and Facebook account

If the previous methods didn’t help fix your issue, you can try logging out and logging into your Instagram and Facebook accounts to see if that does the trick for you. Here are the steps on how you can do this:

  1. Launch Instagram and tap your profile picture at the bottom right.
  2. Select the hamburger menu → Tap Settings and privacy.
  3. Scroll down and tap Log out.

    Log out of your Instagram Account
  4. Now, launch Facebook and tap your profile picture at the bottom right.
  5. Scroll down and tap Log out.
    You might see a prompt to save login info. Tap Not Now if you remember your credentials.
  6. Select Log Out to confirm your choice.

    Log out from FaceBook Account
  7. Enter your credentials and tap Log in to access to your Facebook and Instagram accounts.

5. Change your Facebook Account’s Password

If you haven’t changed your Facebook account’s password in a while, it would be a good idea to do it now.

Apart from improving your account’s security, doing this will let you log out from all Facebook sessions running on other devices so you can start afresh while clearing out any glitches that may prevent you from sharing your Instagram post across Facebook.

  1. Open Facebook and tap your profile picture at the bottom right.
  2. Tap the Settings icon (gear icon) at the top right corner → See more in Accounts Centre.

    Go to Account Center from FaceBook
  3. Now tap Password and securityChange password.

    Change FaceBook Password
  4. Select your Facebook profile, and type in your current and the new password. Then, tap Change password.

    Set New Password for FaceBook

Wrapping up…

Sharing your Instagram posts to your Facebook account can be a real time-saver, letting you automatically share your content on two different platforms simultaneously. However, if you can’t share your Instagram posts to Facebook on your account, the methods listed above should easily help you troubleshoot and fix the issue in no time.

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5 comments

  1. Hi, I cant link my insta to my FB so I can share story and posts? I use to and it was fine and suddenly it would only work on a linked acc and then when I tried to fix I can’t link to any. I have logged out of both, reset passwords on both….followed all instructions I can google but no answers????? I get the error: Can’t Use This Account Try using another Instagram account.

  2. Hello,

    Sorry to hear that. Have you tried complaining to Instagram – Open Instagram app → go to your profile → tap the three line icon → select Settings → Help → Report a Problem → Something Isn’t Working and then share your issue with screenshot. Hopefully, the developers could help you resolve the issue.

  3. I’ve been making posts on IG from my computer but they won’t post on Facebook. If I post from my phone, it will post on Facebook. How can I have posts made from the computer also post on Facebook?

  4. Hello,

    Unfortunately, this feature is only available for Instagram mobile app, not even on Creator Studio.

  5. Thanks so much for this.

    My instagram and facebook link hadn’t been working since June and no amount of changing settings would get it working again.

    Logging out of instagram on my phone and back in again totally fixed the problem!

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