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While Later offers Auto Publishing for Instagram business and creator profiles, certain posts can only be published through push notifications. We’ll show you how.
Important:
- Instagram personal profiles can only publish posts through push notifications
- Later will send you a push notification when it’s time for you to publish your post
- If you miss the notification, you can still publish your post through the mobile app
- When publishing a post through a push notification, make sure you’re logged into the right profile on the Instagram app first
- Make sure you’re using the most up to date version of the Later mobile app when following these steps to publish your notification posts
How to Publish Using Notification Publishing
Publishing on iOS 13 or 14
If you’re running iOS 13 or above on your mobile device, follow these steps to publish your notification post.
- Open the notification on your iOS device.
- Tap Open in Instagram.
- Select Feed to post to your Instagram feed.
- The first photo from your camera roll will be selected. Tap Next.
- Edit your photo if you'd like, then tap Next.
- Tap in the caption field and select Paste to paste the caption we automatically copied for you.
- Tag people or add a location if you want.
- Tap Share to publish your post.
Note: After you tap Open in Instagram, you may need to allow Later to access your photos and open Instagram. You’ll only need to do this the first time you publish a post.
Publishing on iOS 12 or Earlier
If you’re running iOS 12 or earlier on your mobile device, follow these steps to publish your notification post.
- Open the notification on your iOS device.
- Tap Open in Instagram.
- Select Copy to Instagram. You might have to tap More to find it. Do not select Instagram.
- The post will open in Instagram.
- Select Feed to post to your Instagram feed.
- Edit your photo if you want.
- Tap in the caption field and select Paste to paste in the caption we automatically copied for you.
- Tag people or add a location if you want.
- Tap Share to publish your post.
Note: If you see a blank screen after trying to open your post in Instagram, make sure you've selected Copy to Instagram and not Instagram on your iOS device.
Publishing on Android
If you have an Android device, follow these steps to publish your notification post.
- Open the notification on your Android device.
- Tap Open in Instagram.
- The post will open in Instagram.
- Edit your photo if you want.
- Tap in the caption field and select Paste to paste in the caption we automatically copied for you.
- Tag people or add a location if you want.
- Tap Share to publish your post.
Publishing Posts When You Missed Your Notification
If you missed your push notification or didn’t get one, you can still publish your post through Later’s mobile apps! Here's how:
- In Later’s iOS or Android app, tap Schedule at the bottom of the screen
- Tap List near the top of the screen
- Tap the Publish Now button on the post whose notification was missed
- It will be displayed at the top of the list outlined in a blue box
- Follow the same steps above (starting from step 2) to publish your post
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