Add your Facebook Business Page to Later to schedule and Auto Publish posts.
Important:
- You can schedule posts to Facebook Business Pages only. Facebook doesn’t support scheduling to personal profiles. Later doesn’t support Facebook Groups at this time
- You can schedule to Facebook from Later on the web or Later's iOS and Android apps
- All users can schedule Facebook posts with 1 image, 1 GIF, 1 video, or only text
- Users on paid plans can schedule Multi-Photo posts with up to 10 photos
- The number of Facebook posts you can schedule monthly is dependent on your plan
- Facebook posts can be up to 63,206 characters
- URLs in Facebook posts are clickable
- URLs in text-only Facebook posts will generate a link preview
- Tagging for Facebook is not available at this time
Desktop
- Go to your Calendar in Later on the web
- Select your Facebook Page at the top
- Drag and drop the media you want to schedule or the Create Text Post box onto your Calendar
- Set the date and time you want the post to go out
- Write a caption up to 63,206 characters or add Saved Captions
- Optional edits:
- Click Edit Image or Edit Video under individual media to edit it
- Click Add/Change Media to change the media order or add/remove media (not included on legacy plans)
- Add Click Tracking
- Save your post
iOS
To create a Facebook post from the Schedule Tab:
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- Select the Schedule Tab
- Tap the create-post button
- Select your Facebook profile
- Add your caption and hashtags
- If you want to add media, tap +
- Optional edits:
- Tap a photo to crop it
- Tap x to remove media
- Tap Change to select a date and time for publishing and tap Save, or tap Publish Now to publish the post immediately
- Tap Schedule Post
Android
- Select the Media Tab
- Tap a single image or video you’d like to schedule
- Tap CREATE A POST
- Select your Facebook profile
- Add your caption and hashtags
- Tap NEXT > PICK A TIME
- Select the publishing date, then click OK
- Select the publishing time, then click OK
Tip: To bulk schedule Facebook posts, create your own Quick Schedule for Facebook.
Note: When you schedule a Multi-Photo post on Later, it will show up as a photo album post on Facebook, not a carousel.
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