How to Add Someone's Story to Your Story on Instagram, Snapchat, and More

Sharing someone else's story content to your own story is one of social media's most useful — and most misunderstood — features. Whether you're trying to reshare a friend's announcement, amplify a brand's post, or spread event details to your own followers, the process works differently depending on which platform you're using, what privacy settings are in play, and whether the original poster has enabled resharing.

Here's a clear breakdown of how it works across the major platforms.

What "Adding Someone's Story to Your Story" Actually Means

When you reshare someone's story, you're reposting their content — a photo, video, or text card — so it appears in your own story feed. Your followers see it attributed to the original creator (on most platforms), with a label showing where it came from.

This is different from screenshotting and reposting, which strips attribution and can raise copyright or etiquette issues. Native resharing keeps the source visible and is the preferred method on every major platform.

How to Reshare a Story on Instagram

Instagram is the platform where story resharing is most common, and it has a built-in mechanic for it — but only under specific conditions.

When resharing is available:

• The original post must be a public account, or the person must have tagged you in their story
• The account owner must have "Allow Resharing to Stories" enabled in their settings

If both conditions are met, here's how to do it:

1. Open the story you want to share
2. Tap the paper airplane icon (the share button) beneath the story
3. Select "Add to Your Story"
4. Customize if desired — you can resize the sticker, add text, or layer other elements
5. Tap "Your Story" to post

The reshared content appears as a sticker-style overlay in your story, with the original creator's username attached. Viewers can tap it to visit the original account.

What limits resharing on Instagram:

• Private accounts can't have their stories reshared by others (unless they tagged you directly)
• If the creator has turned off resharing in their settings (Settings > Privacy > Story > Allow Resharing to Stories), the option won't appear
• Stories from business or creator accounts behave the same way as personal accounts in this respect

How to Reshare a Story on Snapchat

Snapchat's approach is more restrictive by design, which reflects the platform's original philosophy around ephemeral, private content.

Public Stories vs. Private Snaps:

• Snapchat Spotlight and Public Stories can sometimes be shared via link or repost, depending on creator settings
• Private Snaps sent directly to you cannot be natively reshared to your story without screenshotting — and Snapchat notifies the sender when you screenshot

For public content:

1. Open the Snap or Story
2. Tap the share icon if available
3. Select "Share to My Story" or copy the link

The availability of this option depends heavily on whether the creator has enabled public sharing. Many Snapchat stories simply don't offer a reshare option.

How to Reshare a Story on Facebook

Facebook Stories support resharing in a limited way:

1. Open the story
2. Tap the send/share icon
3. If the option is available, select "Share to Your Story"

Like Instagram, this only works if the original poster's privacy settings allow it. Stories set to "Friends only" typically cannot be reshared beyond the poster's own network.

How to Reshare a Story on TikTok

TikTok has a Stories feature (availability varies by region and account type), and resharing works similarly to its video repost feature:

• Tap the share icon on the story
• Look for a "Repost" or "Share to Story" option
• If neither appears, the creator has disabled sharing or the content type doesn't support it

TikTok's resharing shows original creator attribution clearly, and viewers are directed back to the source account.

Key Variables That Affect Whether You Can Reshare 📱

What Happens to the Reshared Story After You Post It

A few things worth knowing:

• It expires when your story expires — typically 24 hours, regardless of whether the original is still live
• If the original creator deletes their story, the reshared version may also disappear on some platforms (Instagram handles this automatically)
• Attribution stays intact — the original creator's handle is embedded in the reshared content
• Your own customizations (text, stickers, drawings you added on top) are visible to your followers but don't affect the original

When Resharing Isn't Available: Your Alternatives

If the native reshare option isn't there, you have a few paths:

• Ask the creator directly to enable resharing or send you the content to repost yourself
• Tag the creator in your own story referencing their content, without copying it directly
• Use a link if the platform supports story links (some do, some don't)
• Screenshot with permission — always ask first, and give clear credit when you post

The Part That Depends on Your Situation 🔍

How smoothly story resharing works for you comes down to a combination of factors that vary from account to account: which platform you're on, whether the creator you follow has resharing enabled, whether your own account is set up to allow it, and what type of content you're trying to share.

Someone managing a public brand account on Instagram has a very different resharing experience than someone on a private personal Snapchat. The mechanics are the same — the outcomes aren't.