X (formerly Twitter) removed option to share posts directly on Instagram Stories on Android

The latest X update appears to have removed the built-in option to share posts directly to Instagram Stories on Android.

This change was spotted by a user on X whose post saying, “YOU CANT SHARE TWTS ON STORY ANYMORE WTF?????” has now racked up over a million views. And when someone in the comments tagged Grok to ask what’s going on, the chatbot confirmed the same.

I went looking for the share-to-Story button myself on Android, and I couldn’t find it anywhere.

Previously, sharing a post to Instagram Stories was pretty straightforward: you’d tap the share icon under a post, choose Instagram Stories, and X would hand off a pre-baked “sticker” style preview into Instagram’s Story composer.

Now, the share sheet still shows the usual suspects (copy link, DMs, other apps), but the dedicated Instagram Stories handoff just doesn’t appear — at least not in my testing.

On iOS, the feature still seems to be alive.

The option to send a post straight into Instagram’s Story interface remains available there, suggesting this isn’t a platform-wide policy shift — at least not yet — but something tied to the Android app, an Android-specific rollout, or an integration that broke.

Interestingly, the official help page currently doesn’t display the steps to share X posts to Instagram Stories on Android. These steps, however, show up just fine when you select the guide for Apple devices.

This suggests that the removal might be intentional, rather than just a random bug. Removing it means more manual steps, and the most common workaround — a screenshot — strips out polish and context (no clean preview, no consistent formatting, and links don’t magically become tappable in Stories anyway).

If you rely on sharing posts as quick receipts or conversation starters, this makes Stories posting noticeably slower.