How to schedule LinkedIn posts

Scheduling lives in the same composer you use to post right away. These are the desktop steps from LinkedIn's help centre:

1. Click Start a post at the top of your LinkedIn homepage.
2. Write the post in the What do you want to talk about? field.
3. Click the clock icon in the lower-right corner of the composer.
4. Pick a date and time between 10 minutes and 3 months from now. You can type an exact time instead of using the 30-minute options in the list.
5. Click Next. The scheduled date and time now show above the post.
6. Click Schedule. A confirmation appears in the lower left of the page.

Source: LinkedIn Help: Schedule posts, checked 3 October 2026

The LinkedIn app has the same option, with the clock icon in the top corner instead of the bottom:

1. Tap Post in the navigation bar.
2. Write the post.
3. Tap the clock icon in the upper-right corner.
4. Choose a date and time between 10 minutes and 3 months ahead.
5. Tap Next, then tap Schedule in the upper-right corner.

• LinkedIn standardises the scheduled time in UTC from your device's time zone, so check your phone's time zone before you schedule while travelling.
• To cancel the schedule before it's set, tap Edit next to the time and clear it, then post now or discard.

Page posts are scheduled from the Page's admin view, and only super admins and content admins can do it. LinkedIn's steps:

1. Open your Page's super admin or content admin view.
2. Click Page posts in the left menu, then Start a post.
3. Click the schedule icon in the lower right of the post preview.
4. Choose a date and time (based on your location), or type an exact time.
5. Click Next to return to the preview, finish the post, then click Schedule.

Source: LinkedIn Help: Schedule a LinkedIn Page post, checked 3 October 2026

Profiles and Pages have slightly different rules:

• A scheduled Page post can't be promoted through Campaign Manager's Browse existing content option until it has been published.

Start a post, click the clock icon, and choose View all scheduled posts in the lower left. From that list you can open a post to preview it, use the delete icon to remove it, or use the More menu to choose Modify schedule or Edit post.

LinkedIn rewards posts that sound like a person with something to say, which is hard to produce on the day. A routine that works for a small business or a founder:

1. Once a week, note three things worth sharing: a lesson from a customer, a result, and an opinion about your industry.
2. Write each as a short post that opens with the point in the first line, since that line decides whether anyone clicks see more.
3. Schedule them on different days, leaving room to post live when something happens.
4. Reply to comments on the day each post goes out; a scheduler publishes for you, but it can't hold the conversation.
5. At the end of the week, look at which post drew real comments and write more like it.

The composer saves you from posting at a fixed time. It doesn't help with the harder part: deciding what to say each week, writing it in your voice, and keeping LinkedIn in step with what you post everywhere else.

• No content plan or variety across weeks
• No help writing or rewriting the post
• One network at a time: Instagram, Facebook and X are scheduled elsewhere
• Polls, reshares and multi-photo posts still have to go out live on Pages

A scheduled post can still fail at publish time if it breaks one of LinkedIn's limits. These are the figures Zolyp checks a LinkedIn post against, the same ones listed in the docs:

Zolyp plans the week across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Business, X, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, and Threads, and writes the LinkedIn version in the professional register LinkedIn readers expect rather than reusing the Instagram caption. You approve the week in minutes, and nothing publishes without your yes until you hand a content pillar to Autopilot.