Instagram just made commenting a bit less high-stakes. The next time you leave a comment on a post that you later realize has a typo or an inadequate emoji, you can simply edit it rather than deleting it.
The Meta-owned social network announced the new feature on Thursday, but you’ll need to spot your errors pretty quickly if you want to fix them. According to the social media giant, you can only edit your comments within 15 minutes after posting. There’s no limit to how many times you can edit them within that time frame.
Editing comments is pretty straightforward. Using the Instagram app on my iPhone, I added a comment to a post and saw an “edit” option clearly visible on the comment itself. I made the changes I wanted to and clicked a blue check mark to let the world see the perfect version of my comment.
When you tweak a comment, its status as edited is visible to others, but they can’t view the version history. If your comment includes text and a photo, you can only edit the text. You can edit comments in the Instagram iOS and Android apps, but not on the web, and you can also edit comments on content in Instagram Reels.
If you still decide you want to wipe your comment off the map, you can delete it by tapping and holding it. You can also delete other people’s comments on your own Instagram posts.
Instagram has been testing a lot of new features, though many of the more premium ones are planned to be included as part of a paid subscription service. The paywalled features being tested in multiple overseas markets include spotlighting one of your stories each week, previewing stories without showing up as a viewer and extending your stories for 24 hours.
