Facebook removes ‘edited label’ from edited post

Since we aren’t grammar bot, we occasionally make typo errors on Facebook. These errors, unlike on Twitter, can be edited, but our friends could easily notice that we have doctored a post, no thanks to the edited label stamp that accompanies such posts.

However things will never be the same again with the latest Facebook update. From now on, edited posts will never carry the stamp again. So unless your friends see the mistake before you edit it, they will never know you have edited a post.

Before this update, when a Facebook user scroll through his feed, he could easily spot edited post through the edited label displayed along with the standard options Like, React, Comment and Share. But now the edited label is hidden and your friends will need to click through the more option before they can see if a post has been edited or not.

If a post has been edited, on clicking the more option, an option named view edit history is tagged to the post. This option will not be available on unedited post since no edit history is recorded.

This new update isn’t really a big deal compared to posting Facebook status with coloured backgrounds, but it has its usefulness—at least our friends will now hardly find out that we edited our typos.