How to schedule Threads posts, and what you can't schedule
Threads schedules posts from the three-dot menu in its composer and keeps them in drafts. What can't be scheduled, the limits, and how apps schedule chains.
Short answer
In the Threads composer, tap the three-dot menu, choose Schedule, pick a date and time, and tap Schedule again. Scheduled posts wait in your drafts, where you can edit or delete them. Replies and text attachments can't be scheduled, and Threads hasn't said how far ahead you can schedule.
How to schedule a post on Threads
- 1Start a new post and write it, adding photos or video if you like.
- 2Tap the three-dot menu in the composer.
- 3Tap Schedule, then pick the date and time.
- 4Tap Schedule again to confirm.
Threads launched scheduling on 23 January 2025. Its help centre has no article on it, and the AI assistant in Threads' help even answers that the feature doesn't exist, so the steps here come from Threads' own announcement. Meta's 2024 announcement said scheduling started on the web; it hasn't said since which apps have it.
Find, edit or delete a scheduled post
Scheduled posts sit in your drafts, each with the time it will go out. Open one there to edit it or delete it. Threads doesn't describe a separate reschedule step, so change the time by editing the draft.
What you can't schedule on Threads
- Replies. Adam Mosseri said in December 2024 that replies can't be scheduled, to keep conversations happening in real time.
- Text attachments. The long-text feature, up to 10,000 characters, can't be scheduled or edited after posting.
- A whole chain of posts. Threads hasn't said that a chain can be scheduled in its app, and since the posts after the first are replies, it doesn't fit the rule above.
How far ahead can you schedule?
Threads hasn't published a limit. Its 2024 announcement spoke of scheduling several posts a day, several days ahead. If a date further out is refused in your account, that's your answer.
What a scheduled post can hold
- 500 characters, with each emoji counted as its size in bytes, 2 to 4 for most.
- Up to 5 different links, which Threads has enforced since 22 December 2025.
- A carousel of 2 to 20 photos and videos.
- Videos up to 5 minutes.
- One topic tag of up to 50 characters.
The full list, with Meta's page for each, is on Threads' limits.
Sharing from Instagram instead
In the Instagram app, Also share on can send a post to Threads every time or just once. It works on phones only, and two details matter: deleting the Instagram post leaves the Threads copy up, and a post shared from Instagram isn't sent on to the fediverse even if your Threads profile shares there.
How scheduling apps post to Threads
Meta's Threads API has no field for a future time, so an app keeps the post and publishes it when it's due, within Meta's limits of 250 posts and 1,000 replies per profile in 24 hours (a carousel counts as one post). Because the later posts of a chain go out as replies, an app can schedule a whole chain, which Threads' own scheduler doesn't offer. Schedulers for Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon compared.
Scheduling Threads posts with PostDaily
PostDaily schedules single posts, carousels and chains of up to 25 posts, each with its own media, up to 12 months ahead. You choose who can reply and add a topic tag or a link attachment. The counter weighs emoji the way Threads does and checks the 5-link limit before a post is scheduled, and the same chain can go to Bluesky, Mastodon and X. The steps are in connect and post to Threads, and the rest on the Threads scheduler.
Threads scheduling questions
Can you schedule posts on Threads?
Yes. In the composer, tap the three-dot menu, then Schedule. Scheduled posts wait in your drafts.
Can you schedule a thread (a chain of posts) on Threads?
Not that Threads documents: replies can't be scheduled, and the later posts of a chain are replies. A scheduling app can publish a whole chain at the time you choose.
Where do scheduled Threads posts go?
Into your drafts, each showing the time it will publish. Edit or delete them there.
How far in advance can you schedule on Threads?
Threads hasn't said. Scheduling apps can hold posts longer; PostDaily schedules up to 12 months ahead.
Last checked against Threads' and Adam Mosseri's announcements, Meta's Threads API docs and Instagram Help.
