Cross-posting makes it extremely easy for you to publish your Instagram posts to a connected Facebook account. While it can be an excellent way to save time, 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 posts to Facebook on your iPhone. So, let’s dive in!
How to fix Instagram not sharing to Facebook on iPhone
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.
- Launch Instagram on your iPhone → Tap your profile icon at the bottom right.
- Select the hamburger menu from the top right.
- Select Accounts Centre → Tap on Sharing across profiles under Connected experiences.
- Check if your Facebook account is listed on the page. If it’s not, move on to the next step.
- Tap Add accounts and select Add Facebook account.
- Enter your Facebook account credentials and tap Continue.
You won’t need to enter anything if you have Facebook installed.
2. Change Instagram sharing preferences in the 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 the Meta Accounts Centre.
- In Instagram, tap your profile picture at the bottom right.
- Select the hamburger menu.
- Navigate to Accounts Centre → Sharing across profiles.
- Tap and select your Instagram username.
- Under Share to, select your main Facebook profile instead of the pages connected to it.
- Under the Automatically share label, toggle on Your Instagram story, Your Instagram posts, and Your Instagram reels.
3. Relink your Facebook account to Instagram
Often, glitches or bugs within Facebook and Instagram can prevent cross-posting from working as expected. If you want to phase out the possibility, you must relink your Facebook account to your Instagram account, as detailed in the steps listed below.
- In Instagram, tap your profile picture → Select the hamburger menu
- Navigate to Accounts Centre → Accounts.
- Tap the Remove button next to your Facebook profile.
- On the confirmation page, tap Remove account.
- Then, tap Continue → Choose Remove <Your Facebook Name>.
- 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:
- Launch Instagram and tap your profile picture at the bottom right.
- Select the hamburger menu.
- Scroll down and tap Log out.
- Now, launch Facebook and tap your profile picture at the bottom right.
- Scroll down and tap Log out.
You might see a prompt to save login info. Tap Not Now if you remember your credentials. - Select Log Out to confirm your choice.
- Enter your credentials and tap Log in to access your Facebook and Instagram accounts.
5. Change your Facebook Account’s Password
If you haven’t changed your Facebook account 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 clear out any glitches that may prevent you from sharing your Instagram post across Facebook.
- Open Facebook and tap your profile picture at the bottom right.
- Tap the Settings icon (gear icon) at the top right corner → See more in Accounts Centre.
- Now tap Password and security → Change password.
- Select your Facebook profile, and type in your current and the new password. Then, tap Change password.
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.
Also read:
- How to hide likes and views on your Instagram posts
- Fix Instagram feed not refreshing on iPhone
- How to save Instagram posts and reels as drafts on iPhone
- How to hide likes on Facebook
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