About Edit post

Edit post is a feature that gives you a 1 hour window to make a limited number of changes to published original posts. Use it to make updates, tag someone, or reorder the media you attached. 

After you publish a post or a Quote, you’ll see a notification that says Your post has been sent. You can edit it for the next 1 hour. You'll have the opportunity to make up to 5 edits within that 1 hour window. Use that time to make changes like adding, deleting and/or correcting your text or rearranging and tagging media.

When you complete the Update, you’ll see another notification saying Your post has been edited. The updated post displays an edited icon and label to let people on X know you’ve made changes to the original post. Clicking into the post shows any previously published versions. You’ll also keep any engagement of past versions of a post you’ve edited.

Note: You can only edit a post from the device you sent it from. Learn more 

You can only edit the text or media on original post and Quotes up to 1 hour after you send them.

You can’t currently edit the following post types:

You need to edit your posts from the device you sent that post from. For example if you send a post from your X for iOS or X for Android app, you’ll use the same device to navigate back to the X app and edit your post. 

If you send a post from x.com, you’ll go back to x.com to edit the post.

Everyone on X can see the edited label on a post that’s been updated, and everyone can click into the edited post to see any previous published versions. 

The biggest difference between Undo post and Edit post is when you make changes to a post.

Undo post offers the ability to preview and change posts before they’re public. Edit post allows you to update a post after you’ve published it.

You can report abuse in an edited post the same way you report a regular post.