If you really like posting things on your social networks, you have probably wondered if you can tag a friend in your Facebook story . This is a curiosity that many people have because it is not common to see this type of tags in a Facebook story, although it is very common to see them on Instagram.
In this tutorial we are going to show you how you will be able to tag your Facebook friends in stories and what happens when you add this tag to your stories.
Index( )
- Why can’t you tag someone in a Facebook story?
- How can you tag someone in a Facebook story?
- In the Android version
- From an iPhone
- On your Windows PC or Mac
- How to tag someone in a story from Messenger?
Why can’t you tag someone in a Facebook story?
You may have tried to tag a friend in a Facebook story and failed to do so. This can be due to two reasons: the first is that the person you are trying to tag has blocked you from their account , the other reason is that the option of not being tagged by anyone has been activated in their privacy settings. These may be the only reasons why you can’t tag a certain friend on Facebook.
How can you tag someone in a Facebook story?
If you want to tag a friend in a Facebook story and you don’t know how to do it, here we will show you how to do it.
In the Android version
In order for you to tag a friend on Facebook, you will have to do it this way. If your phone is Android, first of all you must enter the application , now you will click on add history, this button is located at the top of the home screen of your Facebook.
After you choose the photo or video you want to upload, you will have to slide up the screen, here will be an option called mention. Using this option is that you can put the name of anyone you want to mention in your story.
From an iPhone
The Facebook application for iPhone changes some things when we compare it with the version for Android. But the site to upload the stories does not change , it always remains among the first options on the home screen. There you will click on add history and you will go on to choose what you want to upload in this section.
After you do, you will press the stickers icon and there you will choose one called mention, which has an @ and there you will write the name of the person you want to mention in your story.
On your Windows PC or Mac
Unfortunately, when you upload stories from your computer there are certain things that you cannot do. For example, you cannot upload videos to this section, in the same way, you cannot tag someone in one of your Facebook stories.
How to tag someone in a story from Messenger?
If you are looking to tag someone in a story from Messenger you can do it this way. You are going to enter the app and in the lower right corner there will be an option called history, which you are going to touch.
After you do this you are going to click on add history. Here you have to choose what you want to add to this story. Let’s take a photo for example, in the photo editing screen you will have to slide the screen up . Here you will see many options of which the one that is named will be mentioned.
Now, you will be able to write the name of anyone you want to name in this story or tag them and they will receive a notification that you named them in this story.
