How to share Facebook Reels in messenger?

Sharing feature is a very important feature on social media platforms that need to be discussed. Whether you are a blogger or social media influencer, social sharing of your content will always help you to get more reach and to promote your content to the right platforms. 

Coming towards Facebook reels, reels are amazing short videos on Facebook that you can use to attract the right audience to your Facebook profile or page. 

You can cross share your Facebook and Instagram reels. Instagram has a straight and easy option that allows you to share reels from Instagram to Facebook but the opposite of it is a bit difficult. You may also like to read: Recommend Insta reels on Facebook.

In this article we will see how to share Facebook reels in Messenger. Further we will discuss how to share Facebook reels outside of Facebook. Let’s see how to do it.

Sharing Facebook Reels outside of Facebook

To attract and grab outside audience’s attention we need to share our fb reels outside of Facebook and here is how we can do it:

  • First of all open your Facebook profile
  • Select a reel that you want to share outside of Facebook
  • Click on the “share” option located in the lower right corner 
  • Tap on “More” option and select an application in which you want to share your reels
  • Add further details and description and then click on “Share” option.

How can I share Facebook reels in messenger? 

As Facebook and Messenger are both Meta platforms and both of these platforms are attached so that you may need to share Facebook reels in Messenger. But there is not a direct option which can make you able to share reels from Facebook to Messenger by just one click. You can share them on messenger by following these steps:

  • You need to open your Facebook profile
  • Go to the reels section and select a reel to share on Messenger
select a reel to share
  • Click on the “Share” option that will be located in the right bottom section
share option
  • Click on the “More options”. It will show you all options to share reels
all sharing options
  • Tap on the “Messenger” icon
  • Click on the “Send” option located in front of a Messenger user’s name. It will send the link of your Facebook reel to the desired destination on Facebook Messenger.

This is the way you can share reels on messenger but you will be able to share reel to a single user in messenger as this option does not support bulk sharing. To share reels to multiple users on messenger you will have to repeat the process again and again. 

Sharing Facebook reels on messenger not working

If you are having trouble in sharing your Facebook reels on messenger then you need to make sure that the “Share” button is enabled or not. 

If the share button is not showing then: click on three dots >> Edit Privacy >> Public. Now you will get your share option back.

If the problem remains then make sure to install the Messenger app on your phone and set up its account because the messenger option will appear in the share option only if you have installed a messenger app on your phone. 

How to share Facebook reels to Facebook story?

You can enable and disable share button on your Facebook reels very easily:
Go to your Facebook profile
Click on “three dots” icon in the upper right of a reel video
Now tap on “Edit Privacy” out of the options available
Click on “Public” to enable share button on reels
Click on “Only me” to disable or hide share button

How to enable the share button on Facebook reels?

You can enable and disable share button on your Facebook reels very easily:
Go to your Facebook profile
Click on “three dots” icon in the upper right of a reel video
Now tap on “Edit Privacy” out of the options available
Click on “Public” to enable share button on reels
Click on “Only me” to disable or hide share button