How do I recover an unfinished post on Facebook

If you own or contribute to a Facebook Page, you can create drafts of posts before sharing them publicly. But once you create a draft, how can you go back to it to finish your work? It's pretty easy to do so, but you'll need to be using Facebook in a web browser on your computer. This wikiHow teaches you how to find and edit saved post drafts for your Facebook Page. Unfortunately, you can no longer create post drafts for personal Facebook accounts.[1] X Research source Go to source

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   Go to https://facebook.com and log into your account. You'll need to use the desktop version of the site to find the link for publishing tools.

   • There is no way to view or edit post drafts using Facebook on a phone or tablet.

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   Click the Pages menu. It's in the left panel.

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   Select your Page. This opens your Facebook Page.

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   Click Publishing Tools. It's in the left panel toward the bottom.

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   Click Drafts. It's in the left panel under the "Posts" header. You will find all of your saved drafts here.

   • To create a new draft, click +Create at the top-right corner.

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   Click a draft to view a preview of the post. This shows you how the post would look if you were to post it right away.

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   Click Edit to edit the draft. If you want to make more changes, click this button at the bottom of the preview window.

   • If you want to post without editing the draft, click the down-arrow next to "Edit" and select Publish to publish now, or Schedule to choose an automatic posting date.

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   Save additional changes to the draft (optional). If you make more changes to your draft and want to save them without posting yet, here's how you can do so:

   • Click the button under "News Feed" and select Share Now.
   • Click "Save." This changes the "Share Now" button at the bottom to a "Save as Draft" button instead.
   • Click the Save as Draft button to save your progress.

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   Share your post (optional). When you no longer need to make edits, you can share the post on your Page's news feed. Here's how:

   • If you want to share the post right now, make sure Share Now is selected in the menu below "News Feed." If you see something else there, click the button and select Now from the list. Then, click Share Now at the bottom to share your post.
   • If you want to schedule the post for a later date (or backdate it to a previous date), select Schedule or Backdate, select a date, and then click Schedule or Backdate to confirm.

1. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/help/642707099175171

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Definitely There must be a time you just have to press the back button knowingly or unknowingly while making a post on Facebook and you get an option to save as draft or discard post, of which you might save as draft to be able to make that same post a later time but unfortunately you don’t get an option to retrieve or recover back the saved post on Facebook, but with the tips I will be letting known to you today, you will be able to retrieve or recover back Facebook draft Post and get them edited and published.

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How To Recover/Retrieve/View Facebook Draft Post In 2020

So follow steps below to view, see, recover or retrieve all Facebook saved posts as draft on your Facebook app for iOS or Android in 2020.

• Open your Facebook app for iOS or Android
• Now tap on the ” What’s On Your Mind?” box to write a Facebook post

Since there is no option or section to view Facebook drafted posts, we are going to do a simple trick that would bring out the option to view all saved facebook draft posts. Cool right? Continue reading….

• Now just write anything and press the back button
• You should see options to save as draft, continue writing or discard post.
• Now simply tap on the save as draft

How to recover Facebook draft posts 2020

• Immediately you see that your post has been saved as draft, you should now see a Facebook notification 🔔 on your notification section which reads ” Your draft was saved, Tap to make changes”

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• Simply tap on the notification from Facebook and you will then see just the recent saved as draft Facebook post, now tap on back button once and you will be surprised to see all your recent saved as draft Facebook post that was made within max 3 days of saving as draft.

Your posts on Facebook draft

• You can decide to edit any of the recent Facebook drafted posts or you can delete/discard that particular draft post on facebook.

Summary and Notes About Facebook Save As Draft:

In this article, you have been shown in details how to recover ore retrieve unfinished Facebook posts saved as draft and of which the saved as draft posts doesn’t stay as draft for a long time.

You can only recover or retrieve any unfinished Facebook draft post within the max of 3 days (72hrs) which after this period will automatically delete or discard the drafted facebook saved post.

So in other to get back to your saved facebook draft posts, you should be sure the Facebook post saved as draft was made within the validity period 3days max.

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