Editing a published post
What you can change on a post after publishing — the description, the people tagged in it, and the order of your carousel photos — plus why the style, placement, and size details are locked.
You can edit a post after it's published. There are three things you can change — the description, who's tagged, and the order of your photos — and everything you change is saved together when you tap Save. The style, placement, size, and other details you picked when posting are locked once the post goes live (more on why below).
Step by step
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Open the editor
Open your own post, tap the three-dots menu, and choose Edit post. The edit screen opens with your current description, photos, and tags.
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Edit the description
Tap the description box and rewrite it however you like. Nothing is sent anywhere until you tap Save.
- 3
Reorder your photos
If your post has more than one photo, drag them into any order you want. The first photo becomes the cover shown on your profile grid — so this is how you swap which image leads. You can't add or remove photos here, only reorder the ones already on the post.
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Add or remove tagged people
Search for someone to tag, or tap the ✕ next to a current tag to remove them. Which people you can tag depends on the post — the same rules as when you first published (for example, only tattoo and flash posts let you tag fellow artists). Tag changes are staged with a "Will be added / removed on Save" note, so nothing happens until you Save.
When you Save, anyone you added receives a request to be tagged and only appears as a credit once they accept — exactly like tagging at posting time. See Tagging and reposting for how that approval works.
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Save
Tap Save to apply everything at once. If you leave without saving, nothing changes.
Frequently asked questions
- Why can't I change the style, placement, or size?
Those details are locked once a post is published. They're what powers search and filtering, so letting people keep changing them after seeing how a post performs would be unfair and would muddy search for everyone. If a detail is genuinely wrong, the clean fix is to delete the post and post it again with the right details.
- I removed someone who had reposted my work — what happens to their repost?
When you remove a tag from someone who reposted, the app asks whether to also take down their repost. Choose Keep their repost to just remove your credit, or Remove repost too to take their copy down as well. If they never reposted, removal is silent. See Tagging and reposting for how reposts work.
- Does editing the description notify anyone?
No. Only adding a new tag sends a notification — and only when you tap Save, not the moment you pick the person.
- Can I add a new photo to a post I already published?
No — you can only reorder the photos already on the post. To change the photos themselves, you'd delete the post and post again.
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