Your upload will be shortened to the first 30 seconds Facebook

However, if you’re looking to upload the full video to your Facebook Messenger Story, you can’t trim it.

Otherwise, only part of the video will be uploaded.

Fortunately, there is a way to bypass the size limit so that you can upload a full-length video.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to add longer videos to your Facebook Messenger Story.

How to add longer videos to Facebook Messenger story

To add longer videos to your Facebook Messenger story, you need to first tap on the “Camera” option.

Then, navigate to your gallery and select the video that you want to upload.

Lastly, tap on “Add to story” to upload the video.

Typically, when you’re looking to upload a video to your story, you’d select the video that you want to upload via the “Add to story” page.

The “Add to story” page contains your recent photos and videos.

The page also has a “Camera” and a “Text” option.

Instead of uploading the video via the “Add to story” page, you need to tap on the “Camera” option.

Then, visit your gallery via the camera and select the video that you want to upload there.

If you use this method to upload stories, you’ll be able to bypass the video size limit.

Here’s how you can add longer videos to your Facebook Messenger Story:

1. Add a new story & tap on “Camera”
2. Select the video from your gallery
3. Tap on “Add to story”

1. Add a new story & tap on “Camera”

To begin with, open Facebook Messenger.

Once you’re on Facebook Messenger, tap on the “People” icon.

On the “People” page, you’ll see a couple of tabs on the top navigation bar.

This includes the “Active” tab and the “Stories” tab.

Tap on “Stories” to open the “Stories” tab.

On the “Stories” tab, you’ll see all of your friends’ stories.

Tap on the “Add to story” card to add a story.

After you’ve tapped on “Add to story”, you’ll land on the “Add to story” page.

On the “Add to story” page, you’ll see your recent photos and videos.

Typically, if you’re looking to add a story, you’d select one of the videos from here.

However, you won’t be able to upload longer videos if you do this as you’ll get the “Video is Too Long” error.

Instead of uploading a video via the “Add to story” page, you need to upload it via the camera option.

The “Add to story” page contains a couple of options including “Camera” and “Text”.

Tap on the “Camera” option to open your camera.

2. Select the video from your gallery

After you’ve tapped on the “Camera” option, your camera will open.

On your camera, you’ll see a “Gallery” icon.

Tap on the “Gallery” icon to open your gallery.

Keep in mind that need to have the video saved in your gallery before you can upload it.

After you’ve tapped on the “Gallery” icon, your gallery will open.

In your gallery, you’ll see all of your recent photos and videos.

You can switch albums by tapping on “Albums”.

Now that you’re in your gallery, you need to navigate to the video that you want to add to your Facebook Messenger story.

If you don’t have the video in your gallery, you need to save it in it first.

Once you’ve found the video that you want to upload, tap on it to upload it.

3. Tap on “Add to story”

After you’ve tapped on the video that you want to upload, the editing screen will open.

On the editing screen, you can edit the video by drawing, adding text, and more.

You might have also noticed that the “Video is Too Long” error is not showing up.

As a result, you don’t need to trim the video to post it.

This is because when you’re uploading a video via the “Camera” option, you’ll be able to upload longer videos.

In some cases, you might want to add restrictions to where your video is distributed on Facebook. In order to do this, you select different distribution options for your video including: 1) excluding a video from News; 2) prohibiting embedding on third-party sites; and 3) adding a secret video that is unpublished and non-searchable on Facebook.

By selecting “Exclude from News Feed”, your video will be published only to the Videos tab on your Page. This feature gives you control over the distribution for your back catalog of content. Rather than sending your videos out to News Feed all at once, you can decide to publish in News Feed these videos at a later date.

Secret videos give Page owners the ability to upload videos that are accessible only via a direct URL, but which are not searchable for people on Facebook. This may be useful if you'd like to to host videos on Facebook, embed them on third-party sites, or share them with anyone who has the URL, without posting them anywhere else on Facebook.

• Follow the instructions above to begin uploading a video.
• Click Advanced
• Select Custom from the dropdown menu under Distribution
• Check either Exclude From News Feed, Prohibit embedding, or Add as secret video to customize your distribution.

A distribution summary is also provided below the options as a guide to where exactly your video will appear on Facebook.

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