About Draft Posts

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.

Before you start

• Free plans can view drafts and other posts in the Calendar up to 2 weeks in the past and future. Paid plans can view Calendar content up to 1 year in the past and future.
• Each draft post is equal to 1 Later post. Changing a draft post to a scheduled post won’t use up an additional post. 
• If you delete a draft post, it will be added back to your post count. 
• Draft posts won't be published at their selected time. 
• Draft posts won't appear in the Share Calendar for Instagram. 
• Draft posts will only show in your Visual Instagram Planner when using app.later.com on desktop.  
• You can change a post’s status between draft and scheduled from your Calendar or in the Post Builder. 

Create 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: 

1. Select the arrow beside Schedule Post
2. Select Save as Draft
3. Select 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 

1. Select the draft post you want to publish or edit on the Calendar
   • Alternatively, you can access your draft posts by selecting List at the top of the Calendar page and then selecting Draft from the Status dropdown
2. Make changes
3. Select the arrow beside Save as Draft
   • Or, select Save as Draft to save your changes without scheduling your post yet
4. Select Schedule Post
5. Select 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:

1. 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):

1. Tap on the draft post you want to publish on the Calendar, or from the Drafts tab in List View (Schedule > List > Drafts)
2. 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:

1. 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):

1. Tap on the draft post you want to publish on the Calendar, or from the Drafts tab in List View (Schedule > List > Drafts)
2. 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: