How do you stop auto posting from facebook to instagram

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Updated on September 22, 2022

What to Know

  • In either the Instagram app or the Facebook app, go to Settings > Accounts Center > Accounts & profiles.
  • Choose an account and tap Remove. If both accounts share the same password, you must change one of them.
  • To limit interaction between Instagram and Facebook, go to Accounts Center > tap Sharing Across Profiles.

This article explains how to unlink your Facebook account from your Instagram account. You can also limit the activity between the two accounts without unlinking them completely.

Here's how to disconnect Facebook from your Instagram account using the Instagram app for iOS and Android:

  1. In the lower-right corner, tap your profile icon.

  2. In the upper-right corner, tap the Menu icon (three lines).

  3. Tap Settings.

  4. Scroll down and tap Accounts Center.

  5. Tap Accounts.

  6. Select the account you want to remove and tap Remove.

  7. When the confirmation message appears, tap Continue. If both accounts share the same login password, you will be required to change one of the passwords.

To unlink your accounts on the Instagram website, tap your profile > Settings > Accounts Center > Accounts. Locate your account and select Remove.

Here's how to disconnect Instagram from your Facebook account using the Facebook app for iOS and Android:

  1. Tap Menu (three lines).

  2. Tap the Settings gear (Android) or Settings & Privacy > Settings (iOS).

  3. Scroll down and tap Accounts Center.

  4. Tap Accounts.

  5. Select the account you want to remove and tap Remove.

  6. When the confirmation message appears, tap Continue. If both accounts share the same login password, you will be required to change one of the passwords.

Limit Your Instagram-Facebook Interaction

If you want to keep some Instagram-Facebook connection, there are customization options. For example, you can stop sharing your posts automatically.

In either the Instagram app or the Facebook app, go to the Accounts Center and tap Sharing Across Profiles. Choose your profile, then use the sliders to turn Automatically Share on or off for your posts or story.

Tap Logging in with accounts to choose whether you want to share all logins and manage advanced login options.

FAQ

  • How do I link Facebook to Instagram?

    To connect Instagram to Facebook, launch Instagram and tap your profile icon > Menu > Settings > Accounts Center. Tap Set up Accounts Center > Add Facebook account, and select your account. Tap Yes, finish Setup and follow the prompts.

  • How do I share an Instagram post to Facebook?

    Your Facebook and Instagram accounts must be linked via the Accounts Center to share Instagram posts to Facebook. Create your Instagram post as usual, write your caption, and then tap the Facebook switch. You can opt to share posts to Facebook automatically or manually. Tap Share to share your post to Facebook and Instagram.

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How do you stop auto posting from facebook to instagram

While I don’t recommend always posting the same content on both Facebook and Instagram, sometimes it can be a good idea to do so, especially when the content ideas are running dry.

Luckily, there’s a few options to quickly post the same content to Facebook and Instagram at the same time.

How to post from Facebook to Instagram automatically

Facebook has recently made it easy to post to Facebook and Instagram at the same time. When you’re making a new post on Facebook, Facebook now gives you an option to cross post to Instagram. Here’s how it works.

Step 1: Connect your Instagram to Facebook

The first thing you’ll need to do is connect your Instagram profile to your Facebook page. You can do this by going to Settings on your Facebook page and selecting Instagram in the left sidebar.

How do you stop auto posting from facebook to instagram

From here, connecting your Instagram account is as simple as logging in to your account.

Step 2: Select Instagram when posting to Facebook

Now when you’re making a post on Facebook, you’ll be able to select Instagram as an additional destination for your post.

How do you stop auto posting from facebook to instagram
Select Instagram to share your Facebook post to Instagram

Now every time you want to automatically post from Facebook to Instagram, make sure Instagram is selected when making a new post on Facebook.

How to boost a post from Facebook to Instagram automatically

Another way to share a post from Facebook to Instagram is to boost it, which is a feature Facebook offers that allows you to pay to have your post seen by more people.

At the moment, Facebook doesn’t offer the ability for users to boost a Facebook post and show it on Instagram, but there are third party tools that make it really easy, like Revealbot.

With Revealbot’s auto post boosting feature, you can set a certain level of engagement for a Facebook post (e.g. 10 reactions, 5 comments, or 1% click-through-rate), and if a post meets those conditions Revealbot will automatically turn the Facebook post into an ad and show it on Instagram.

Step 1: Create a Revealbot account

You can create a Revealbot account for free with a two-week free trial.

Then connect your Facebook profile to Revealbot. Once your account is set up, you’ll be able to create Facebook ad automations with Revealbot.

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Step 2: Set up auto post boosting

Once your account is set up, you can click Auto post boosting in the left sidebar. From here you can start creating your first automation.

First, select your Facebook page as the source and the types of posts you’d want your automation to consider for auto post boosting. I chose photos and videos.

How do you stop auto posting from facebook to instagram

Then choose the conditions in which a post needs to meet in order to be auto boosted. You can set conditions where all have to be true or just one has to be true. I chose to auto boost posts if it has more than 10 likes or a 1% click-through-rate.

How do you stop auto posting from facebook to instagram

Next you can configure the exact placement of your auto boosted post. In our example, I’m going to choose just Instagram feed, stories, and explore so that my Facebook posts are shared to Instagram.

How do you stop auto posting from facebook to instagram

The last step would be configure the setup for your campaign and ad set your auto boosted posts will appear in the Facebook Ads Manager. Once you’re done and set it live, any Facebook post that meets your conditions will be auto boosted to Instagram.

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Check out our complete article on auto boosting Facebook posts for more tips and tricks.

You can’t share an existing post from Facebook to Instagram if the post is already published on your Facebook page. When you attempt to share a post on your Facebook page, you can see there are no options to share to Instagram:

How do you stop auto posting from facebook to instagram
Currently no options to share a Facebook post to Instagram directly

You have two options to post to Instagram from Facebook:

  1. Delete the Facebook post and repost it while selecting Instagram as an additional destination for your post
  2. Manually take the copy the content and make a new post from the Instagram app

We’re crossing our fingers Facebook adds the ability to share an existing Facebook post to Instagram soon.


How do I stop my Facebook posts from going to Instagram?

Unlink your Instagram account from other social networks.
Tap or your profile picture in the bottom right to go to your profile..
Tap in the top right, then tap Settings..
Tap Account..
Tap Sharing to Other Apps, then tap the social network you'd like to unlink..
Tap Unlink Account (iOS) or Unlink (Android)..

Why are my Facebook posts going to Instagram?

You just need to tick the cross-post to Instagram option and your facebook image posts will be simultaneously posted to Instagram as well. Also, ensure that you select the “post now” option while posting, otherwise you won't be able to cross-post to Instagram.

Does posting on Facebook automatically post on Instagram?

You can automatically crosspost Instagram posts and Stories to Facebook, as well as crosspost IGTV videos to Facebook. If there are individual posts and Stories you don't want crossposted, you'll be able to exclude them before posting.