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If you don’t have all of your content ready, you can start creating your post in Later and save it as a draft! This feature can be useful for obtaining content approval from team members prior to scheduling a post for publishing.
Important:
- Draft posts are available on all Later plans, including Free
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Each draft post is equal to 1 Later post; however, when you change a draft post to a scheduled post, it won’t use up an additional post
- If you delete a draft post, it will be added back to your post count
- Draft posts will not be published at their selected time
- Draft posts will not appear in the Share Calendar for Instagram
Creating Draft Posts
Desktop
To create a draft post, follow the same steps you normally would to create a post. However, you don’t have to worry about including everything you need–you can save a draft post if there’s information or media missing.
After you’re ready to save your post as a draft:
- Click the arrow beside Schedule Post
- Click Save as Draft
- Click Save as Draft again to save your post as a draft
Your draft post will then appear on the Calendar at its selected time.
Then, once you’re ready, you can come back to your draft post and change anything you need to, or schedule it to be published
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Click the draft post you want to publish or edit on the Calendar
- Alternatively, you can access your draft posts by clicking List at the top of the Calendar page and then selecting Draft from the Status dropdown
- Make changes
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Click the arrow beside Save as Draft
- Or, click Save as Draft to save your changes without scheduling your post yet
- Click Schedule Post
- Click Schedule Post again to schedule your post
iOS
To create a draft post, follow the same steps you normally would to create a post. After you’re ready to save your post as a draft:
- Simply tap Save as Draft and you’re done!
Your draft post will then appear on the Calendar and the Drafts tab in List View at its selected time.
Once you’re ready, you can come back to your draft post and change anything you need to. To access your draft post(s):
- Tap on the draft post you want to publish on the Calendar, or from the Drafts tab in List View (Schedule > List > Drafts)
- After making any changes needed, tap Schedule Post
Android
To create a draft post, follow the same steps you normally would to create a post. After you’re ready to save your post as a draft:
- Simply tap Save as Draft and you’re done!
Your draft post will then appear on the Calendar and the Drafts tab in List View at its selected time.
Once you’re ready, you can come back to your draft post and change anything you need to. To access your draft post(s):
- Tap on the draft post you want to publish on the Calendar, or from the Drafts tab in List View (Schedule > List > Drafts)
- After making any changes needed, tap Schedule Post
Scheduled Posts vs. Draft Posts
Scheduled Posts are posts that will be published to a social profile either automatically through Auto Publish or manually through notification publishing.
Once scheduled, these posts will appear on the Calendar:
Draft Posts are posts that will not get published. You can come back to edit the post as many times as you like and then schedule once ready.
Once saved, these posts will appear on the Calendar labelled as a ‘Draft’ with a dashed border, and will also be added to the section ‘Drafts’ under list view: