Draft posts on Facebook are essentially saved, unfinished versions of your content. This means you can start a post, pause, save, and return to finish later. This feature is useful for preparing posts when you don’t have time to complete them immediately, or when you want to refine your message before publishing.
To find your drafts, you can access them directly within the post creation interface on your phone or computer, or, for Facebook Pages, manage them through the Meta Business Suite. In this guide, we are providing you with the best ways to find the posts that are drafted on Facebook for further editing and publishing.
How To Find Draft Post on Facebook using Smartphone:
For those beginners, here is a brief explanation on how to create a draft on FB. Open Facebook app -> tap on What’s on your mind? -> create your desired post -> tap on the cross-mark (X) -> FB asks whether you want to save this post as a draft or discard -> tap on Save Draft.
Now let’s get straight into the point on how to find those drafted posts on FB on your Smartphone. Here is a detailed procedure:
- Open Facebook app on your device (Android or iPhone).
- On this Facebook home tab, tap on this – What’s on your mind?
- There you can see your drafted posts, in which you can choose to keep as a draft post or publish the post with a simple tap on the Post.
- Usually, Facebook doesn’t remove your content that you saved in the Post until you remove it manually.
How To Find Saved Drafts on Facebook Pages
If you want to manage various Facebook Pages, Meta Business Suite offers a better experience. This tool also supports saving and finding drafts on the desktop. The Meta Business Suite app is not required to use Facebook, but it’s handy for managing multiple Pages. It contains helpful information for connecting with and managing your audience and scheduling Posts and ads.
- You need to download Meta Business Suite from the Play Store (Android) and App Store (iOS).
- Open this Suite and connect your Facebook profile. The app displays your Facebook Pages.
- Tap + at the bottom and select the Post button under the Content section.
- Under Create New -> Post -> type as your desired post.
- Then tap on the Next and select Save as draft (click on the circle).
- Finally, tap on the Save Draft option.
- Go back to the Content and tap on Posts and thereby Drafts.
- There you can see your saved drafts and tap on the three-dots menu option beside the particular draft.
- It will open up and you can make necessary changes (if required).
- Finally, you can perform/select any of these actions – edit post, publish now, schedule, or delete the post.
Note: Only people who have access to your Facebook business account or page can see your unfinished drafts. However, you can review their access in the Page Roles menu.
How To Find a Post as a Draft on Computer Website:
In order to create and find a draft post on your computer Facebook site, here’s how you need to perform:
- Log into Facebook and click on the profile photo/Account in the top right corner.
- Now you see all profiles and select the Page you want to switch to.
- Click on the Page profile picture in the top right corner of the screen.
- It will automatically switch to that Page and tap on the particular Page.
- You will be redirected to the Manage Page section.
- Click Meta Business Suite in the left menu under More Tools (manage your business across Meta apps) section.
- A new tab opens with Meta Business Suite Page, and click on the Content tab on the left menu.
- Then click on the Create Post in the top right corner of the screen.
- Add content to your post in the Post details section -> Text -> add text in it.
- Now click on the Finish later rather than Publish or Cancel to save your post as a draft.
- However, for managing (edit or publish) your draft posts, click on your profile photo/Menu in the top right corner.
- See all profiles and select your desired Page where you drafted the post. After switching the profile, click your Account and go to your Page.
- Click Meta Business Suite in the left menu under the More Tools section.
- Click on the Content option in the left menu to schedule, publish, manage posts and stories, and more.
- Click on the Drafts options and you can find the draft posts.
- It is redirected to the Edit draft post section -> Post details -> Text -> make necessary changes in the post.
- If you want to save the draft again, click Finish Later. If you want to publish the draft, click Publish.
FAQs:
To delete your Facebook drafts on Android, pull down the notification shade. Tap the Facebook draft notification. Tap the three dots (ellipsis) next to the draft post you want to delete. Select “Discard Draft”. On an iPhone, tapping the “X” on the new post screen and selecting “Discard Post” is the correct way to delete drafts on iOS. Finally, on the FB website, you can create a post, and navigate away from that page, Facebook will prompt you with the option to discard the post. There is no dedicated draft folder on the Facebook website.
Drafts are saved within the Facebook app itself and connected to the device you created them on. They are also saved within the notification section on Android devices. On the desktop version of Facebook, drafts are not saved in a dedicated location.
Drafts are device-specific. If you created a draft on your phone, you won’t see it on your computer or another phone. Also, the draft will be deleted if you have already posted the post.
Facebook drafts generally remain saved until you post them, discard them, or clear the FB app’s cache.
No, it cannot be recovered once a Facebook draft is deleted. Usually, the drafts are stored locally but not on Facebook’s servers. So, once deleted, that local data is overwritten, and Facebook doesn’t keep backups of deleted drafts.
Conclusion
Finding your Facebook drafts is straightforward on mobile devices. Now you know how to locate and manage your Facebook drafts easily! This feature can help you save and refine your posts before sharing them with the world. Remember, drafts are stored locally on your device and not in a dedicated drafts location on the Facebook website. So be mindful of where you create them.
We hope this guide provides clear information on finding the draft post on Facebook. If you still have queries, feel free to share them with us in the comments section below. We’ll respond promptly to resolve them.
