{"id":51815,"date":"2013-09-27T11:44:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T09:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=51815"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:08:18","slug":"now-you-can-edit-your-facebook-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/now-you-can-edit-your-facebook-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Now you can edit your Facebook posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you make a mistake on a <a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/b\/facebook\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a> post, now you can edit and correct yourself, something that many people will be happy about. However, your post will be marked as &#8216;edited&#8217;, and anyone who can see the post will be able to view the edit history.<\/p>\n<p>Editing posts on Facebook is possible on the web, and is being rolled out to the <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Android<\/strong><\/a> app. So far we have not been able to edit posts on any Android device, and <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>iOS<\/strong><\/a> users will have to wait till the next app update.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51817\" title=\"Facebook post editing\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/fbeditinghistory-568x479.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/fbeditinghistory-568x479.png 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/fbeditinghistory-256x216.png 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/fbeditinghistory.png 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can edit anything you posted on your <strong>Timeline<\/strong>, apparently as far back in the past as you like. Click the arrow on a post, and you&#8217;ll now have the option to edit. Once you do, that post will be marked as &#8216;edited&#8217;, even if you undo your edit. This is not a way to hide your mistakes or embarrassing posts! You can, of course, still delete anything you post.<\/p>\n<p>The editing history could be quite funny, if used creatively, it will be interesting to see whether editing posts becomes normal amongst Facebook users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you make a mistake on a Facebook post, now you can edit and correct yourself, something that many people will be happy about. However, your post will be marked as &#8216;edited&#8217;, and anyone who can see the post will be able to view the edit history. Editing posts on Facebook is possible on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/now-you-can-edit-your-facebook-posts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Now you can edit your Facebook posts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-51815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332117,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51815\/revisions\/332117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51815"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=51815"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=51815"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=51815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}