Can You Edit A TikTok Caption?
Jul 9, 2024
Key Takeaways
Captions are a crucial aspect of a TikTok post, used for adding more context, including a call to action, or increasing search result accuracy.
TikTok has a character limit of 2200 for its captions, the same as Instagram, which allows for more detailed descriptions.
Unfortunately, as of 2024, TikTok does not allow users to edit their captions after posting. If a caption contains a mistake, the post must be deleted and re-uploaded.
Why Are TikTok Captions Important?
Captions are an important part of a TikTok post. While most creators focus on the actual photo carousel or video itself, the caption is equally as important.
The caption can be used in various ways to improve the content you are posting, such as by adding more context/storytelling to a particular post, adding a call to action (CTA) to check out a brand as part of a brand deal, adding a new punchline to your post to make it even funnier, or even using your caption as a mini blog post to help it appear in search results more often.
With all this in mind, do not neglect the importance of the caption of your TikTok post.
Do TikTok Captions Have A Character Limit?
As of 2024, TikTok currently has a character limit of 2200 on its caption. This is a recent change as back in 2020-2022 they used to limit the length of the caption to a few hundred characters (around 240 characters), but they have since increased the caption length to 2200.
Interestingly enough, this caption length is the same caption length as Instagram’s, so you can use the same caption on both platforms.
A big reason why TikTok is increasing the caption length is because TikTok is being used as a search engine from some users, and by having a longer caption length this lets creators add more context to their post and could increase the accuracy of search results on TikTok. If you want your content to appear in more search results on TikTok, the caption is incredibly important.
How To Edit A TikTok Caption In-App
Create your post, and then click on this box right here to begin adding your caption
You will then see this caption editor right here. You can add your caption here and starting editing your TikTok caption. If you want, you can even add a catchy title.
When you have completed writing your caption, you can press the “Post” button and your TikTok post will be uploaded with the caption that you just wrote.
Can You Edit A TikTok Caption After Posting A Video?
Unfortunately as of 2024, you are unable to edit the caption of a TikTok post after you have uploaded it. This is very different from Instagram as Instagram does allow you to edit your caption after you have uploaded your video.
However, if you make a TikTok post with a mistake in your caption, you can always delete the post and reupload it with the fixed caption.
Here are some steps on how to delete a post from TikTok:
Press the three dot icon on the post you want to delete
Scroll all the way to the right until you see the “delete” button
Press the delete button, and then your post will be deleted from TikTok