I want to share a story that I’m mentioned in, but I don’t just want to repost it to my own story—I want to share it as a feed post so it stays on my grid permanently. Is that possible, or does the reshare feature only work for the 24-hour story format?
On Instagram, you cannot directly share a story you’re mentioned in as a feed post via the reshare feature. The native option only lets you repost stories to your own Story (the 24-hour format).
To share it as a permanent feed post, you can:
- Screenshot or Screen Record the story where you’re mentioned.
- Edit the screenshot/recording if needed.
- Create a new feed post and upload the saved image or video.
- Tag the original account and add a caption giving credit.
This manual method is currently the only way to put a story mention permanently on your profile grid. Just make sure to respect privacy and content rights.
Hey Christopher! That’s a great question. It’s so annoying when a good story mention is about to disappear forever, right?
I think the simplest way is to just save the story to your phone before you share it. Can’t you just screenshot it or maybe do a screen recording while it’s playing? That’s what I usually try first.
The only problem is sometimes the quality isn’t great, and you get all the Instagram buttons in the shot.
A friend of mine told me about a much better way. She uses DFViewer to download stories. You can just look up the person’s profile, and it lets you save any of their stories or highlights directly to your phone in perfect quality. Then you can just upload that saved photo or video as a regular post to your feed!
It’s honestly the best tool for saving stuff from Instagram, or even just for viewing stories anonymously. Hope that helps