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You can link your Facebook to Instagram in a few quick steps.
Have you ever wondered how people share their Instagram posts to Facebook?
The secret is cross-linking your accounts - that way, when you create posts (or edit them), you can direct Instagram to share your photo or video to that other platform.
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Here's how to link Facebook and Instagram accounts on your iPhone or Android.
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This is a quick and easy process, just make sure you have your Facebook login information on hand.
1. Open Instagram and toggle over to your account profile (located in the bottom toolbar).
2. Tap the three bars and select "Settings."

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Tap settings to link your accounts.
3. Tap "Account" and then select "Linked Accounts."

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View your Linked Accounts.
4. Tap "Facebook" and log into your Facebook account to confirm that you want to link your Facebook account to Instagram.

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Log in to your Facebook account to link it to Instagram.
Before sharing any posts, be aware that if you have a private Instagram, anything you share to other social networks, like Facebook, will become public.
If you want to unlink your Facebook account from your Instagram, you'd go through the same general process. The only difference would come at the final step - instead of logging into Facebook, you'd tap "Unlink Account" (for iPhone) or "Unlink" (for Android.)
