Facebook to introduce cross posting stories to Instagram feature

Facebook is currently at the top when it comes to total number of users social media users with apps like Instagram and WhatsApp under its belt.

Now Facebook seems to be testing another new feature that will allow cross posting stories to Instagram with just a click which will be extremely useful for users who use both platforms.

The feature was reported by an app researcher Jane Manchun Wong on her Twitter account with a screenshot of the new feature.

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We can clearly see in the screenshot that the new feature can simply be enable with a toggle of the “Share Story to Instagram” option in the Story Privacy settings.

Wong further revealed in a response to her own tweet that a Facebook spokesperson told her that the company is now testing this feature to improve and simplify the stories feature across apps.

The feature might already be available to some users in the alpha or beta form but seems to be really limited at this point.

The Facebook and Instagram cross posting stories feature does seem to be useful for many users to use both the platform and will now be really easy and time saving allowing them to post a story to both the platforms with a single click.

For now, we need to wait until Facebook releases and makes this available to more users around the globe.

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