How to schedule Facebook posts: Pages, Reels, Stories and Groups
Schedule a Facebook Page post up to 29 days ahead, find it again, and know what can't be scheduled at all, with Meta's own steps for each.
You can schedule Facebook posts on a Page, up to 29 days ahead, for free, from Meta Business Suite. A profile in professional mode can schedule too, in the Facebook mobile app, and Group admins and moderators can schedule inside a Group. What no outside tool can do is post to a personal profile: Facebook's publishing API only works with Pages. The steps below are Meta's own, checked against its help centre on 11 November 2026.
Schedule a Page post on a computer
- Switch to the Page you want to post as, then click Meta Business Suite in the left menu.
- Click Create post below the Page's profile picture and add your text, photos or video.
- Next to Scheduling options, turn on Set date and time and choose when it should go out. Active times suggests times from when your followers were most active over the past week.
- Click Schedule.
Meta allows a scheduled time between 20 minutes and 29 days away, and the time is read in your own current time zone. Anyone with Facebook access or task access to the Page can create and edit scheduled posts.
Starting in Business Suite itself works the same way: Create post, pick the Page under Post to, write the post, set the time under Scheduling options, then Schedule. That route lets you post to the Page and its linked Instagram account at once, with different text for each.
Schedule from your phone
Two routes work on a phone. In the Facebook app, a Page or a profile in professional mode can schedule straight from the composer: tap What's on your mind?, create the post, tap Next, choose Schedule for later under Scheduling options, pick a time or one of the recommended times, then tap Post. Meta says this route is mobile only. The Meta Business Suite app schedules posts, Reels and Stories too: tap the + button, choose what you are making, and schedule it instead of publishing now.
Personal profiles and professional mode
A profile in professional mode can schedule straight from the Facebook mobile app, with the steps above; Meta says that route doesn't work on a computer. A profile without professional mode has no scheduler of its own, and turning professional mode on adds one. Outside tools are a different matter: Facebook's API publishes to Pages only, so no third-party scheduler can post to a profile, professional mode or not, whatever its pricing page implies. If you want a tool to post for you, a Page is the way.
Reels and Stories
Both can be scheduled on a Page. A Reel is one video; a Story is one photo or video that disappears after 24 hours, and a Story scheduled by an app carries no stickers, links or music. The step-by-step guides are How to schedule Facebook Reels and How to schedule Facebook Stories.
Groups
Group admins and moderators can schedule a post inside the Group itself, but no outside scheduler can post to a Group: Meta removed that permission from its API on 22 April 2024. The steps are in how to schedule posts in a Facebook Group.
How to see your scheduled posts on Facebook
- In Meta Business Suite: open Content, then Posts & reels, then the Scheduled tab. Stories have a tab of their own. The Planner shows the same posts on a week or month calendar.
- In a Group you manage: open the Group and choose Scheduled posts under Admin tools.
How to edit or reschedule a scheduled Facebook post
In Meta Business Suite, open the post from Planner and choose Options: Edit post changes the text, media, link or location, and Reschedule post changes the time. Scheduled Stories can only be rescheduled, published or deleted. How to edit a scheduled Facebook post has every step, for Reels, Groups and the app too.
When the native scheduler isn't enough
Business Suite is free and fine if Facebook and Instagram are all you post to, a month at a time. The limits show up at the edges: 29 days is the furthest ahead it goes, each post is placed by hand, and a scheduled post that fails tells you little about why.
A scheduler earns its place when you post to other networks from the same plan, want a queue that fills your usual posting times, want the link in the first comment published straight after the post, or need a client to approve posts without a Facebook login. PostDaily schedules up to 12 months ahead and records the Page's own error when something is refused. The Facebook scheduler lists exactly what it can post.
If a scheduled post didn't go out
Start with the Scheduled tab and your time zone: a post set in one zone and checked in another looks an hour or more late. For everything else, the causes and fixes are in Why your Facebook scheduled post didn't post, and the causes that apply to every network are in why scheduled posts fail.
Last checked against Meta's help centre: scheduling for Pages, for Pages and profiles in professional mode, and in Meta Business Suite.
