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How to edit, reschedule or find a scheduled Facebook post

Edit a scheduled Facebook Page post from Meta Business Suite's Planner, change its time, move it to drafts or delete it, and find every scheduled post.

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Short answer

In Meta Business Suite, open Planner, click the scheduled post and choose Options: Edit post changes the text, media, link or location, and Reschedule post changes the time. On a phone, open the post from Planner and tap Options. Scheduled Stories can't be edited, only published, rescheduled or deleted.

Where your scheduled Facebook posts are

  • Meta Business Suite on a computer: open Content, then Posts & reels, then the Scheduled tab.
  • Planner: the same posts on a week or month calendar, which you can filter by content type and by where they're shared (a Page, a Group or Instagram).
  • Stories: Content, then Stories, then Scheduled.
  • The Business Suite app: one Meta help page points to Planner, another to Content and then Scheduled in the drop-down. Both lead to the same list.
  • A Group you manage: Admin tools, then Scheduled posts.

Edit a scheduled post on a computer

  1. 1In Meta Business Suite, open Planner and click the post. Or open Content, find the post under Scheduled, and click the ... menu, then Manage post.
  2. 2Choose Edit post.
  3. 3Change the text, the photo or video, the link or the location.
  4. 4Save the changes. The post keeps its scheduled time unless you change it.

The Options menu in Planner also has Duplicate post, Reschedule post, Move to drafts and Delete post. The menu under Manage post adds Add collaborator and the remix setting, depending on the post.

Change the time, cancel or publish now

  • New time: Reschedule post, anywhere from 20 minutes to 29 days ahead.
  • Cancel without losing it: Move to drafts removes the time and keeps the post.
  • Cancel for good: Delete post.
  • Publish now: Meta documents Publish now for a scheduled post that failed. For one that hasn't, reschedule it to the nearest time or duplicate it and publish the copy.

On your phone

In the Meta Business Suite app, open the post from Planner and tap Options: the same menu offers Edit post, Reschedule post, Duplicate post and Delete post. Meta's help sends you to Business Suite for scheduled Page posts rather than to the Facebook app.

Scheduled Reels and Stories

A scheduled Reel can be edited: its menu has Edit reel, Reschedule post or Change date, Move to drafts and Delete reel, depending on its status. A scheduled Story can't: you can only publish it, reschedule it or delete it, so a Story with a mistake has to be deleted and made again.

Scheduled posts in a Group

Admins and moderators find them under Admin tools, then Scheduled posts, on a computer or in the app. From there, Reschedule post and Post now sit beside the post, and Options has Edit post and Delete post. Recurring posts set up with Admin Assist appear in the list 24 hours before they go out, and only the admin who set one up can edit it.

Editing after it's published

  • Text: you can edit any post you shared.
  • Photos and videos: in most cases you can add or remove them, but not on posts shared from another app or from a photo album.
  • Boosted posts and posts in an ad campaign can't be edited.
  • Edit history: on a Page, anyone who can see the post can see that it was edited and what changed; only Page staff see who made the edit.
  • Reels: the caption, audio description, details and audience can be changed after posting.

Personal profiles

Meta Business Suite doesn't work with profiles in pro mode (Meta's newer name for professional mode), so none of the Business Suite steps above apply to a profile. What a profile can and can't schedule is in How to schedule Facebook posts.

Editing scheduled posts in PostDaily

In PostDaily every scheduled post sits on the Calendar and in the Queue, across all your channels. Open one to change its text, media or first comment, or drag it to a new time on the calendar and it reschedules on the spot. Published posts can't be moved. Plan with the calendar shows how.

Scheduled Facebook post questions

Can you edit a scheduled post on Facebook?

Yes, in Meta Business Suite: open it from Planner, choose Options and then Edit post. You can change the text, media, link and location.

How do I see my scheduled posts on Facebook?

In Meta Business Suite, open Content, then Posts & reels, then Scheduled, or use Planner for a calendar view. Stories have their own Scheduled tab.

Can I change the photo in a scheduled Facebook post?

Yes. Edit post in Planner lets you change the media as well as the text, link and location.

Why can't I edit my scheduled Facebook Story?

Meta doesn't allow it. A scheduled Story can only be published, rescheduled or deleted.

Last checked against Facebook Help and Meta Business Help.

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