Now you can edit your Instagram comments

Just Instagram to inform A small but useful update that people have been asking for forever: You can edit your comments at the end.

The platform announced Thursday that users now have the ability to edit comments, a long-standing challenge for anyone who has previously deleted and reposted comments to correct a typo. However, there is a catch. You only get a 15 minute window after submission to make changes. During those 15 minutes, you can edit your comments as many times as you want.

When you edit a comment, other people will be able to see that it has been edited, but they won’t see what was originally said. It’s different from other apps, like iMessage, where you can see the update history.

There is another limitation to remember: Only words can be changed. So if your comment includes both an image and text, you can edit the text, but the image will remain intact.

While this change may seem small, it shows a major effort by Instagram to improve the user experience and address the frustrations that have existed for some time. And even though the feature is officially announced, some users have already seen it in testing. More information reports in the past few weeks they have appeared, indicating that Instagram has quietly experimented with the feature. What happens on the Internet is usually good, with one person to say“The time has come,” it is someone he laughs, “I don’t know why it took 73 years, but I’m happy.”

On the same day as the announcement, Instagram too shared updates about restricting certain types of content for young accounts based on 13+ videos. Movement comes in the middle growth analysis about the platform’s impact on young users.

Last month, Meta suffered two major legal losses: one internally New Mexicowhere the court found the company responsible for endangering the safety of children, and another Los Angeleswhere the jury found that Meta designed its software to be addictive to children and teenagers, damaging their mental health. And that’s not all. Thousands of cases is still active, with 40 federal prosecutors suing the company.