Your eyes can get so tired from reading so many lines of spider web copy, sitting in front end of a computer screen all day, while too maintaining leisure activity on your smaller phone screen in your downtime. With all the heavy lifting they have to do these days, sometimes fifty-fifty several pairs of eyes tin miss errors.

Maybe y'all hitting "post" earlier putting the link in your explanation, or you observe a word is misspelled just a moment as well tardily. Don't panic (yet) – in this post I'll go over how you can edit your social media posts later on they've been published.

Merely worth noting, editing posts after they've been published isn't available on all platforms, and there are restrictions equally to what, exactly, you tin can edit.

Here are the post editing capabilities on some of the main social platforms.

Facebook

On Facebook, y'all're able to edit mail captions, only you tin can't change images and videos.

If you lot attached the wrong photo or video to your mail, you'll have to delete the whole matter and start again, but if you simply missed a comma or misspelled a word, or even if you lot have to tag another brand, y'all can fix these elements quite easily. And worth noting, post editing is bachelor in Facebook'south Page Managing director app likewise.

One thing to keep in listen when editing posts on Facebook is that edits are visible, and tin can be made past any Page admin. The aforementioned also applies for changes made before the post is published.

Each post's edit history is also public, so your followers and Folio visitors will exist able to run across them if they go looking.

And one more thing to continue in heed is that Facebook posts which have been boosted, or are part of an ad campaign, cannot be edited.

To edit a post, simply tap/click on the 3 dots in the top right of the post window and select 'Edit Post'. once yous've made the required changes, select 'Relieve' and that's it.

Facebook post editing

Extra Tip

If you edit your post in Facebook's Pages app, you lot tin add more photos to your mail service. Using this, you can actually change the mail image - information technology's possible to upload an extra photo to a post, save information technology, then get back into editing style and deleted the original image.

Twitter

Unfortunately - as has been widely publicized and discussed - there'due south no edit tweets option at the moment.

Twitter had, at times, hinted at the possibility of an editing option, with the most recent discussion revolving around an 'editing window' of around v minutes after posting your original tweet. Merely no progress has been reported on this forepart as even so.

If you lot make an fault in a tweet, you lot need to delete it and start over again.

Instagram

On Instagram, just like on Facebook, yous tin can't switch a photo or video after you've published your mail service. But if you don't similar your caption, yous tin can change information technology, and you can besides add or change whatsoever location tag, as well as add together or delete account tags on the post. You can as well add together or edit your alt text tags.

Equally of correct now, yous tin only edit your Instagram captions within the app on your mobile device.

To edit your Instagram posts:

  1. Navigate to your mail service
  2. Click the iii dots on the top right of your post
  3. Hit the "Edit" button
  4. Go ahead and edit your caption, modify your location, add account tags to your photo or video
  5. Hit "Washed" on the upper right-hand side

Instagram post editing

Pinterest

On Pinterest, your published Pin photograph, video or carousel tin can't exist swapped out. What y'all can edit are your Pin'south board, section, title, clarification and the link your Pin goes to. You can even edit on the go via the Pinterest app.

To edit your Pinterest Pin:

  1. Go to your Pivot
  2. Click the pencil icon on the upper left-hand side
  3. Edit the sections y'all'd like to change
  4. Hitting "Relieve"

LinkedIn

On LinkedIn, yous have the chapters to edit both Company Page and personal profile updates - simply as with other networks, the image or video you apply on your postal service cannot be edited. You tin can only change the text elements.

To edit your posts on LinkedIn

  1. Find your post
  2. Click the three dots on the upper right-hand side of your update
  3. Edit your caption, add or remove hashtags and links

If you lot published a link mail service, you'll take to delete the mail service, as simply changing the link in the caption won't refresh the original.

Hopefully this helps to clear up any confusion about editing your already published social media posts. For the nearly part, the visual elements of your posts aren't interchangeable, but text fields are.

It'due south worth getting familiar with each social media network, and its capabilities in this respect, so that you lot know the required steps to take if whatsoever mistakes do occur. Then yous'll be able to clean up your errors apace and easily, and maintain a more professional looking feed.

A version of this post was first published on Dhariana Lozano's blog.