Your eyes can go and so tired from reading then many lines of web copy, sitting in front of a computer screen all twenty-four hour period, while also maintaining leisure activity on your smaller phone screen in your reanimation. With all the heavy lifting they take to do these days, sometimes even several pairs of eyes tin miss errors.

Maybe you hit "post" before putting the link in your caption, or y'all find a word is misspelled just a moment too late. Don't panic (all the same) – in this postal service I'll go over how you tin edit your social media posts later they've been published.

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

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

Facebook

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

If you attached the wrong photo or video to your post, you'll accept to delete the whole thing and start over again, but if y'all just missed a comma or misspelled a word, or even if you lot have to tag another make, you tin can fix these elements quite easily. And worth noting, post editing is available in Facebook's Page Manager app also.

1 thing to continue in mind when editing posts on Facebook is that edits are visible, and can be made by whatsoever Page admin. The same also applies for changes made before the postal service is published.

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

And 1 more than thing to keep in mind is that Facebook posts which accept been boosted, or are part of an advertising campaign, cannot be edited.

To edit a mail service, merely tap/click on the 3 dots in the tiptop correct of the post window and select 'Edit Mail service'. one time you've made the required changes, select 'Save' and that's information technology.

Facebook post editing

Extra Tip

If you edit your post in Facebook's Pages app, you can add more than photos to your postal service. Using this, you lot can actually change the post image - information technology'southward possible to upload an extra photo to a post, relieve it, then go dorsum into editing manner and deleted the original image.

Twitter

Unfortunately - as has been widely publicized and discussed - at that place's no edit tweets choice at the moment.

Twitter had, at times, hinted at the possibility of an editing selection, with the most recent discussion revolving around an 'editing window' of effectually five minutes after posting your original tweet. But no progress has been reported on this forepart as notwithstanding.

If y'all make an error in a tweet, you demand to delete it and start over again.

Instagram

On Instagram, just like on Facebook, you tin can't switch a photograph or video afterwards yous've published your postal service. But if yous don't like your explanation, you can modify it, and you tin can also add or modify any location tag, as well equally add together or delete account tags on the mail. You can also add together or edit your alt text tags.

As of right at present, 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 top correct of your mail
  3. Hitting the "Edit" push
  4. Go alee and edit your explanation, change your location, add business relationship tags to your photo or video
  5. Hit "Done" on the upper right-hand side

Instagram post editing

Pinterest

On Pinterest, your published Pin photograph, video or carousel can't be swapped out. What you lot can edit are your Pin's lath, department, title, clarification 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. Go to your Pivot
  2. Click the pencil icon on the upper left-hand side
  3. Edit the sections you'd like to change
  4. Striking "Save"

LinkedIn

On LinkedIn, you accept the capacity to edit both Visitor Folio and personal profile updates - just as with other networks, the epitome or video you use on your post cannot be edited. You can only change the text elements.

To edit your posts on LinkedIn

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

If you lot published a link mail service, y'all'll accept to delete the post, as simply changing the link in the explanation won't refresh the original.

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

Information technology'south worth getting familiar with each social media network, and its capabilities in this respect, and then that yous know the required steps to take if any mistakes do occur. And so you'll be able to clean upwardly your errors quickly and easily, and maintain a more professional looking feed.

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