How to Schedule Facebook Posts
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There are two ways to schedule a Facebook post: natively, with Meta's free Business Suite, or with a social media scheduler that posts to Facebook and your other networks at the same time. Here is how to do both, and when each one makes sense.
Schedule a Facebook post in Meta Business Suite (free)
Meta Business Suite is the official, free tool for scheduling to a Facebook Page. It works on desktop and in the mobile app.
- Open Meta Business Suite and choose the Page you want to post to.
- Click Create post, then write your text and add any photos or video.
- Instead of Publish, open the dropdown and choose Schedule.
- Pick a date and time (from 10 minutes to about 75 days ahead) and confirm.
Your post now sits in the Scheduled tab, where you can edit or delete it before it goes live. This is the right choice if you only post to one Facebook Page.
Schedule Facebook posts across every platform at once
Native scheduling falls apart the moment you also post to Instagram, X, LinkedIn or TikTok — you end up rewriting the same post in five different tools. A scheduler fixes that: you write once and queue it everywhere.
Donivo connects your Facebook Page alongside Instagram, X, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, Threads and Bluesky. Write your post, pick the accounts, set a time, and Donivo publishes it for you — retrying automatically and emailing you if anything fails.
Post at the right time
Scheduling only helps if you pick good slots. Use the free best time to post tool to find Facebook's strongest windows in your timezone, and check your caption length with the character counter before you queue it.