Meta is giving customers the flexibility to edit Instagram feedback they depart on posts, although solely inside a 15 minute window after they’re posted. The setup is just like how the social app handles modifying messages, an possibility it first added in 2024, 11 years after direct messaging was launched to Instagram in 2013.
You are solely in a position to edit feedback you left with your individual account, and the method of really doing so is straightforward. Simply faucet on the phrase “Edit” beneath your remark to drag up a textual content field the place you’ll be able to tweak, rework or embellish what you have written, after which press the blue examine mark to put it aside. Meta says feedback might be edited as many occasions as you need in that 15 minute window, so if you have to make extra adjustments, you’ve gotten that possibility.
Feedback can present up in a number of methods throughout Instagram — together with Tales, as of 2024 — so providing a method to edit them is a welcome addition. The brand new possibility is simply the most recent in a collection of adjustments Meta has launched to the social app within the final month. Earlier in March, the corporate introduced that it was eradicating end-to-end encryption from Instagram DMs. On the finish of the month, Meta additionally started testing Instagram Plus, a subscription service that unlocks new options for the app’s Tales characteristic.

