How to Message a Facebook Friend From Instagram

Recently, the Direct message icon has been changed with a messenger icon. Don’t worry; Facebook not merge fully with Instagram or vice-versa. You can be only able to message a Facebook friend from Instagram, not groups or pages. This update allows you to actually seek out people on the other platform.

Steps to Message a Facebook friend from Instagram:

Open the Instagram app on your Android or iOS devices.

Tap on the messenger icon situated at the top right corner.

Now, search for the person’s name whom you want to message.

You will see the result appear below in various sections.

Select the person you are looking for if they appear or click on see all.

Now a prompt will open a message written on it that “You’re Messaging a Facebook Account.

Whenever you sent a message to your friend, they will also see a similar prompt.

In case you are not friends with that person, then he will be asked to accept the message or block it.

In this manner, you can Message a Facebook friend from your Instagram profile.

Manage Instagram Messages And Comment From Your Facebook Page’s Inbox

For this, you may first connect your Facebook Page and Instagram account. To enter your Page’s inbox, tap at the inbox situated at the top of your page.

For Messages:-

• Select an account or group to manage a conversation.
• At the bottom, you will see a Write to Reply button tap on it.
• Click on the share icon to send a photo or video.
• Tap on the heart button to send like.
• If you want to delete any conversation, click on the delete button situated at the top right corner.
• You can also block and report a message.

For Pages:-

• You may need to reconnect your page with an Instagram account again.
•  After that, from the news feed, click on Pages found at the left side menu.
• Open your page.
• Open your page’s inbox.
• Tap on Instagram direct.
• Click on the connect account.
• Now enter the username and password of your Instagram account.

For Comments:-

• Tap on add comment to add a new comment.
• And if you tap for a while on a comment, then you will see a delete option as well.

Conclusion

The integration of Instagram and Facebook messenger will be gradually turned out to individuals in a few countries at first, but Facebook did not specify exactly how many or in which countries it is going to launch this feature.

Wherever Facebook wishes to launch this update first, users of those countries will have an option to choose from whether they want to opt-in for this new integrated feature or not. To use this feature, you might have to wait for some while.