How to schedule Facebook posts on a Page or in a group

Facebook has a scheduler built in, but where you find it depends on where you post. Pages schedule through Meta Business Suite, and groups have their own scheduler for admins and moderators. This guide covers both, shows where your scheduled posts live and how to change them, and explains when a separate scheduling app is worth it. Facebook's steps and rules below were checked against its Help Center in October 2026.

How to schedule a post on a Facebook Page

These are the steps from Facebook's Help Center. You need Facebook access or task access to the Page.

1. Switch to the Page you want to post as.
2. Click Meta Business Suite in the left menu.
3. Click Create post below your Page's profile picture.
4. Write your post and add your photos or video.
5. Next to Scheduling options, turn on the Set date and time toggle.
6. Pick the date and time. Active times shows recommended times if you want a suggestion.
7. Click Schedule.

The times you pick follow your current time zone. You can schedule posts from 20 minutes to 29 days ahead.

Straight from Meta Business Suite

If you already work in Meta Business Suite, you can start there instead. You need full control of the Page or content permission for it.

1. Click Create post on the home page or the Content tab.
2. Under Post to, choose your Facebook Page. You can tick your Instagram account too if it's connected.
3. Add your media under Media and your text under Post details. You can give Facebook and Instagram different text.
4. Under Scheduling options, pick the date and time.
5. Click Schedule.

Meta says Active times suggests times based on when your followers were most active on Facebook and Instagram over the past seven days. It's a useful starting point, not a rule.

How to see scheduled posts on Facebook

Scheduled Page posts live in Meta Business Suite, not on your Page. There are two places to find them:

• Planner. Click Planner in the left menu of Meta Business Suite. It shows a week or month calendar with everything you've scheduled and published, and you can filter by content type or by Page, group and Instagram account. Meta's Planner guide has the details.
• Content. Click Content in the left menu, then the Scheduled tab under Posts and reels for a simple list.

If you can't see Planner, Meta says you may not have the permissions it needs.

How to edit or reschedule a scheduled Facebook post

1. Open Planner and click the post on the calendar.
2. Click Options.
3. Choose what to do:

• Edit post to change the text, media, link or location.
• Reschedule post to pick a new date and time.
• Duplicate post to make a copy as a new post.
• Move to drafts to cancel the scheduled time and keep the post as a draft.
• Delete post to remove it.

How to schedule a post in a Facebook group

Groups work differently. Facebook's group help page says only admins and moderators can schedule group posts.

1. Go to facebook.com/groups and select your group.
2. Click Write something... to start a post. You might need to click Discussion at the top of the group first.
3. Write your post, then click the calendar icon next to Post. It only appears once you've started typing.
4. Select the date and time, then click Schedule.

To change it later, click Scheduled posts in the Admin tools menu on the left (you might need to click Manage first). From there you can reschedule it, post it now, edit it or delete it.

Group admins can also set up recurring posts that repeat daily, weekly or monthly. Click Admin Assist in the left menu, then Add next to Publish a custom post. Each one shows up in Scheduled posts 24 hours before it goes out.

Facebook's scheduling rules at a glance

What about a personal profile? Facebook's help pages on scheduling cover Pages and groups you manage. We couldn't find one that covers scheduling on a personal profile, so check your own post box rather than rely on a guide.

When a scheduler app helps

Meta Business Suite is free and handles Facebook and Instagram well. A separate scheduling app starts to earn its place when:

• You post the same idea to Facebook and networks outside Meta, like TikTok, LinkedIn or YouTube, and you'd rather write it once. Our guide to posting to all your social media at once shows how that works.
• You want one calendar with your Facebook posts next to everything else, so gaps and clashes are easy to spot.
• You plan more than 29 days out.
• You want your phone to tell you when a post goes live, or when one needs attention.

Stay with Facebook's own tools for groups, personal profiles, polls, events and boosting posts. Unisenda doesn't do those.

How to schedule Facebook posts in Unisenda

Unisenda is the scheduler we make. On Facebook it posts to Pages: text, photos, galleries of up to 10 photos, feed videos, Reels and Stories.

1. Open Connections, click Connect Facebook and approve on Facebook's own screen. Back in Unisenda, choose the Pages to add. Unisenda never asks for your password, and nothing is posted when you connect.
2. Click Create post and select your Facebook Page, plus any other accounts that should get the same post.
3. Write your text under All networks, or open your Page's tab to give Facebook its own version.
4. Add photos or a video from your device or the Media library. In the Page's tab, choose the format, for example a Reel or a Story for a video.
5. Check the preview. Unisenda flags what a network would reject before you schedule.
6. Click Schedule for, pick the date and time in your own time zone, and click Schedule.

Unisenda holds the post and sends it from its servers at the time you pick, so your computer can be off. Your post shows up in the Calendar, where the Week view lets you drag it to another day or hour, with Undo if you slip. Open it to change the text or the time; it stays scheduled.

When it goes out, you get a result for each account with a link to the live post, plus a phone notification if you've turned them on in Settings → Notifications. If you later need to take a published Facebook post down, Unisenda deletes it for you.

You can try writing and scheduling a post in the demo. It uses sample accounts and never publishes anything, and every plan starts with a 7-day free trial.

Tips for scheduled Facebook posts

• Check the time zone. Facebook schedules in your current time zone, so check the time before you click Schedule if you're traveling or posting for a business somewhere else.
• Use video that fits. If you're scheduling Reels, our Facebook Reels size guide has the shapes and lengths that work.
• Plan a batch, not a single post. Scheduling pays off when you write a week or a month of posts in one sitting. Here's how to plan a month of posts in one afternoon.
• Be around when it goes live. A scheduled post still starts a conversation, and replying to early comments is part of it.