Your eyes tin become so tired from reading so many lines of web copy, sitting in front of a computer screen all solar day, while besides maintaining leisure activeness on your smaller phone screen in your reanimation. With all the heavy lifting they have to do these days, sometimes even several pairs of eyes can miss errors.

Maybe you hit "mail" before putting the link in your caption, or you find a give-and-take is misspelled just a moment too tardily. Don't panic (withal) – in this post I'll go over how you tin can edit your social media posts after they've been published.

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

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

Facebook

On Facebook, you're able to edit mail service captions, but you tin't modify images and videos.

If you attached the wrong photograph or video to your post, you'll have to delete the whole affair and offset again, simply if you but missed a comma or misspelled a word, or fifty-fifty if yous accept to tag another make, you tin can prepare these elements quite easily. And worth noting, postal service editing is bachelor in Facebook's Folio Manager app also.

One thing to continue in mind when editing posts on Facebook is that edits are visible, and can be made by any Folio admin. The aforementioned also applies for changes made before the post is published.

Each post's edit history is likewise public, so your followers and Page visitors will exist able to see them if they go looking.

And one more thing to go on in mind is that Facebook posts which take been boosted, or are part of an advertizement entrada, cannot be edited.

To edit a post, simply tap/click on the three dots in the top correct of the mail service window and select 'Edit Mail service'. once you've made the required changes, select 'Save' and that'southward information technology.

Facebook post editing

Extra Tip

If you edit your post in Facebook'due south Pages app, you lot can add more photos to your post. Using this, you tin can actually change the post image - it's possible to upload an extra photo to a post, save it, then go back into editing mode and deleted the original epitome.

Twitter

Unfortunately - as has been widely publicized and discussed - there's no edit tweets selection at the moment.

Twitter had, at times, hinted at the possibility of an editing option, with the most contempo word revolving around an 'editing window' of around five minutes after posting your original tweet. Merely no progress has been reported on this front every bit nonetheless.

If yous make an error in a tweet, you need to delete it and start once more.

Instagram

On Instagram, but similar on Facebook, you can't switch a photo or video after you've published your post. But if y'all don't like your caption, you can change information technology, and you tin as well add together or alter any location tag, as well every bit add together or delete account tags on the post. You tin can also add or edit your alt text tags.

As of right now, you can only edit your Instagram captions within the app on your mobile device.

To edit your Instagram posts:

  1. Navigate to your post
  2. Click the 3 dots on the acme right of your postal service
  3. Striking the "Edit" button
  4. Get alee and edit your caption, alter your location, add account tags to your photo or video
  5. Hit "Done" on the upper right-hand side

Instagram post editing

Pinterest

On Pinterest, your published Pivot photo, video or carousel tin't be swapped out. What you can edit are your Pivot's board, section, title, description and the link your Pin goes to. You can fifty-fifty edit on the go via the Pinterest app.

To edit your Pinterest Pivot:

  1. Become to your Pin
  2. Click the pencil icon on the upper left-hand side
  3. Edit the sections you'd like to change
  4. Hit "Salvage"

LinkedIn

On LinkedIn, you have the capacity to edit both Company Page and personal profile updates - only as with other networks, the image or video you use on your post cannot be edited. You lot can simply modify the text elements.

To edit your posts on LinkedIn

  1. Notice your postal service
  2. Click the three dots on the upper right-mitt side of your update
  3. Edit your caption, add or remove hashtags and links

If you published a link post, you'll take to delete the post, equally only irresolute the link in the caption won't refresh the original.

Hopefully this helps to clear upwardly any defoliation about editing your already published social media posts. For the most function, the visual elements of your posts aren't interchangeable, just text fields are.

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

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