It can be difficult and take a lot of scrolling to find an old post on your Facebook page. Even employing third-party apps and solutions could be a last resort. There is a quick way to look through your timeline, though, and utilizing outside apps won’t jeopardize your privacy.

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Here are some ideas on how to make the most of the Facebook search feature as well as how to utilize it to find previous postings on your timeline.

How to Find Your Old Posts on Your Facebook Timeline

To find your older posts, use Facebook’s normal search feature. It is okay if you overlooked this functionality because it is a little bit buried in the choices. To find anything on your timeline, you can follow along on your computer or smartphone.

First of all, keep in mind that when you search for “My Posts,” the search results that appear are either the ones that you have posted yourself or the ones that you have previously seen posted by others. To further hone the results, you can add a keyword after this search query. For instance, when we searched for “My Entries Rumi,” the following archived posts came up.

But this is just a fairly straightforward search. You need to fiddle with some filters to further refine it. First, select Posts from the Filters menu to limit the search results to content you have published. Next, pick You from the drop-down box by clicking on Posts From. Now, you are the author of every post that is displayed.

You can further hone your search results by year if you’re still having trouble finding the post you’re looking for. To do that, once more navigate to Filters > Posts and select Date Posted. You can select the post’s year here, and just the results from that year will be displayed.

You have the choice to filter results by Recent Posts, Posts You’ve Seen, and Tagged Location in addition to Posts From and Date Posted. Select Recent Posts to focus your search on recently published posts and get better results. Choose Posts You’ve Seen if the post was created by another person. Finally, by choosing Tagged Area, you can focus your search results based on your location.

You can use the options under Filters to search for a picture or a video on your timeline. Finding images and videos uses a process quite similar to the one described above. In contrast to Posts, these two options feature fewer filters that have been adjusted to meet the needs of the content type. You might also want to look at this page to learn how to download Facebook videos and photographs.

To a large extent, you may search for any post in your timeline by experimenting with these tools and filters. Test out several filters to enhance and customize the search results.

We discovered while conducting these searches that it is usually preferable to submit content with a caption or description. As the search algorithm looks for keywords in these portions of the article, these titles and descriptions are very helpful when looking for older posts on your timeline. You can also block users from publishing on your timeline to keep it uncluttered.

Easily Search for Your Old Facebook Posts and Photos Using This Method

You can find anything on your Facebook timeline using the methods described above, including plain text posts, photos, and videos. If necessary, you can use the filters to further hone your search results.

You’ll only run into trouble when looking for postings without captions or descriptions. It can be difficult to find, for instance, if you shared a picture without any text. To improve your chances of finding that specific image, you can search by year.