How to Schedule LinkedIn Posts (2026)
Last verified: 30 September 2026
Yes, you can schedule LinkedIn posts for free with LinkedIn’s own scheduler. Click the clock icon in the post box, pick a date and time, click Next, then Schedule. From a personal profile the post can be 10 minutes to 3 months away; from a LinkedIn Page it’s 1 hour to 3 months, and only certain admins can do it.
LinkedIn explains scheduling from a profile and scheduling a Page post in separate help articles, with different minimums and different lists of what can’t be scheduled. This guide puts the two side by side, then covers editing, exclusions and document “carousels”. For the same walkthrough on every network, start with our guide to scheduling social media posts.
Table of Contents
- Can you schedule posts on LinkedIn?
- LinkedIn profile vs Page scheduling rules, side by side
- How to schedule a LinkedIn post
- Modify schedule or Edit post: changing a scheduled LinkedIn post
- What can’t you schedule on LinkedIn?
- How to post a carousel on LinkedIn (document posts)
- Profile or Page: what a LinkedIn scheduling tool connects to
- Frequently asked questions
Can you schedule posts on LinkedIn?
Yes, on a personal profile and on a LinkedIn Page, and it’s free. Any member can schedule from the homepage post box; on a Page, super admins and content admins can. There’s nothing to install or pay for. What differs is the shortest lead time, who can use it and which post types it accepts.
One detail trips people up: LinkedIn standardises a profile post’s time to UTC based on your device’s time zone, so check that zone before scheduling while travelling. Times come in 30-minute increments, or you can type an exact time.
Does a scheduled post reach fewer people than one published live? LinkedIn’s scheduling help doesn’t say it does. What does shape reach is covered in our guide to the LinkedIn algorithm.
LinkedIn profile vs Page scheduling rules, side by side
Both schedule up to 3 months ahead, and both let you edit a scheduled post. The differences are the minimum lead time (10 minutes on a profile, 1 hour on a Page), who may schedule, and a longer can’t-schedule list for Pages that includes polls and multi-photo posts. The table shows both, read from LinkedIn’s help articles, with an Outfeed column for comparison.
| Where | How far ahead | Shortest lead time | Who can use it | What you can schedule | What you can't schedule | Edit after scheduling | Source | Outfeed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LinkedIn personal profile (homepage 'Start a post') | 3 months | 10 minutes | Any member posting from the homepage.Scheduled time is standardised in UTC based on your device's time zone.Times come in 30-minute increments, or you can type an exact time. | Posts | EventsJobsServices | Yes: Modify schedule, Edit post or delete. | LinkedIn Help: Schedule posts | Posts on your personal profile: text only, text with one image, or text with one video. |
| LinkedIn Page (super admin or content admin view) | 3 months | 1 hour | Super admins and content admins of the Page.Admins can view, edit, reschedule and delete posts scheduled by other admins; a removed admin's scheduled posts transfer to the admin who removed them. | Page postsNewsletter articles | EventsMultiple photosResharesPollsJobsService posts | Yes: Post now, Edit post, Modify schedule, Delete post. Source for this value | LinkedIn Help: Schedule a LinkedIn Page post | No LinkedIn Company Page posting. |
Merging the two rows is how a Page rule like “no polls” ends up applied to profiles. Polls are on the Page list; LinkedIn’s profile article doesn’t mention them.
How to schedule a LinkedIn post
Open the post box, write the post, click the clock icon, choose a date and time, click Next, then Schedule. A Page uses the same flow from its admin view. To post straight away instead, skip the clock and publish as normal: that’s the whole of how to post on LinkedIn.
- Open the post box. Profile: click Start a post at the top of your LinkedIn homepage. Page: go to your Page’s super admin or content admin view, click Page posts in the left menu, then Start a post.
- Write the post. Keep it inside the LinkedIn post character limit. If you want bold or italic lines, the free LinkedIn text formatter turns plain text into styled Unicode you can paste in. Our LinkedIn hashtags guide covers whether to add any.
- Click the clock icon. On a Page, it’s the schedule icon in the lower right of the post box.
- Pick a date and time. On a profile, choose a 30-minute slot or type an exact time. On a Page, the time is based on your location.
- Click Next, then Schedule. On a Page, finish the post after clicking Next, then click Schedule.
These steps follow LinkedIn’s help articles; we haven’t separately confirmed the phone app’s taps.
Choose the slot from when your audience is actually reading. Our guide to the best time to post on LinkedIn covers the weekly pattern. If the blank box is the problem, the free LinkedIn post generator gives you three drafts from a post type and one real detail.
Modify schedule or Edit post: changing a scheduled LinkedIn post
Scheduled posts live behind the same clock icon. On a profile, click Start a post, then the clock icon, then View all scheduled posts in the lower-left of the Schedule post window. Click the More icon on a post and choose Modify schedule to change the time or Edit post to change the post itself.
- Personal profile: Yes: Modify schedule, Edit post or delete.
- LinkedIn Page: Yes: Post now, Edit post, Modify schedule, Delete post. To get there: Page admin view > Page posts (left menu) > Start a post > schedule icon > View all scheduled posts.
You can change the text, not only the date. LinkedIn’s current help article offers Edit post on profiles, and its article on managing scheduled Page posts lists it for Pages too.
What can’t you schedule on LinkedIn?
From a personal profile, LinkedIn lists three things you can’t schedule: Events, Jobs and Services. From a Page, the list is longer: Events, Multiple photos, Reshares, Polls, Jobs and Service posts. Ordinary posts schedule on both. Where LinkedIn’s lists are silent on a format, treat it as unconfirmed rather than allowed.
On a personal profile
LinkedIn’s profile article names only events, jobs and services, and is silent on polls, documents, multiple photos and newsletter articles. If the clock icon is offered once you’ve built one of those, that’s your answer. If the post is a job opening for a social media role, our social media manager job description templates give you the text to adapt.
On a LinkedIn Page
Pages lose polls, multi-photo posts and reshares on top of events, jobs and service posts. In return, LinkedIn lists newsletter articles as schedulable for Pages. Super admins or content admins publish a Page newsletter from Write article, and the Create newsletter option only appears if you have access to newsletters.
One more Page-only catch: a scheduled Page post can’t be promoted through Browse existing content in Campaign Manager until it has been published. Boost it after it goes live.
How to post a carousel on LinkedIn (document posts)
LinkedIn removed native organic carousel posts from 14 December 2023; carousel ads weren’t affected. In practice, what people call a LinkedIn carousel today is a document post: you upload a PDF, PowerPoint or Word file and readers page through it in the feed. To make one, design your slides, export them as a PDF, start a post, add the file as a document and publish.
LinkedIn’s document help article sets the limits. Any member can add a PDF, PPT, PPTX, DOC and DOCX file of up to 100 MB and 300 pages to a post from the homepage, a group or a LinkedIn Page. Readers can download it as a PDF, and any video or animation inside it becomes a still image, so design every slide as a static page.
Can you schedule one? LinkedIn’s profile scheduling article doesn’t mention documents, and the Page article doesn’t list them as schedulable or unschedulable. We haven’t confirmed it either way. Build the document post, look for the clock icon, and if it isn’t offered, publish it live at your chosen time. For slide-by-slide formats that work well as documents, see the carousel ideas in our LinkedIn post ideas.
Profile or Page: what a LinkedIn scheduling tool connects to
A third-party tool earns its place when LinkedIn is one of several networks you post to. LinkedIn’s scheduler only schedules LinkedIn. Tools post through LinkedIn’s API with permission for either a member’s profile or a Page, so check which one a tool connects to before you commit.
If you run a profile, a Page and client accounts, our guide to managing multiple social media accounts covers the setup. If running client accounts is your business, becoming a freelance social media manager covers pricing, contracts and finding clients. The same native-first approach applies on other networks: see how to schedule tweets and how to schedule Facebook posts, or the full nine-network scheduling guide.
Outfeed AI on LinkedIn: your profile, not Company Pages
On LinkedIn, Outfeed AI posts to your personal profile only, as you. It doesn’t post to Company Pages, so a Page still needs LinkedIn’s scheduler or another tool.
What it publishes to your profile:
- Text only, text with one image (alt text you add is sent), or text with one video (MP4, 3 seconds to 30 minutes).
- Up to 3,000 characters, checked before the post is accepted.
- If you attach more than one image, only the first is published, and the composer warns you.
- No document or PDF carousel posts, polls, articles or newsletters.
LinkedIn’s scheduler reads your device’s time zone; Outfeed takes the zone you name, which matters if you schedule while travelling. It publishes through LinkedIn’s API at that moment rather than through LinkedIn’s scheduler, so the post won’t appear under View all scheduled posts. Change or cancel it in Outfeed instead.
The useful part is the cross-network step. One post can target your LinkedIn profile and Threads together, with different text for each. In chat you could type: “Schedule this for my LinkedIn profile next Tuesday at 8:30 am Toronto time, with a shorter version for Threads.”
Schedule your LinkedIn profile posts in Outfeed AI
Frequently asked questions
Can you schedule posts on LinkedIn for free?
Yes. LinkedIn’s own scheduler is built into the Start a post box and costs nothing. Any member can schedule a post on their personal profile, and a LinkedIn Page’s super admins and content admins can schedule posts for the Page. Profile posts can be scheduled 10 minutes to 3 months ahead; Page posts 1 hour to 3 months ahead.
How far in advance can you schedule a LinkedIn post?
Up to 3 months, from a personal profile or a Page. The minimum differs: a profile post must be at least 10 minutes away and a Page post at least 1 hour away. For a profile post, LinkedIn standardises the time to UTC based on your device’s time zone, so check that setting before you schedule.
Can you edit a scheduled LinkedIn post?
Yes. On a profile, open View all scheduled posts, click the More icon on the post and choose Modify schedule to change the time or Edit post to change the content, or delete it. Page admins can Post now, Edit post, Modify schedule or Delete post, including posts that other admins scheduled.
Where do I find my scheduled posts on LinkedIn?
On a profile, click Start a post, then the clock icon, then View all scheduled posts in the lower-left of the Schedule post window. On a Page, go to the Page admin view, click Page posts in the left menu, click Start a post, click the schedule icon, then View all scheduled posts.
Why can’t I schedule a post on LinkedIn?
Usually the time or the post type. A profile post must be 10 minutes to 3 months away, a Page post 1 hour to 3 months. Profiles can’t schedule events, jobs or services. Pages can’t schedule events, multiple photos, reshares, polls, jobs or service posts. On a Page, only super admins and content admins can schedule.
Can you schedule a LinkedIn carousel?
LinkedIn removed organic carousel posts from 14 December 2023, so in practice what people now call a LinkedIn carousel is a document post (a PDF or slide file readers page through). LinkedIn’s scheduling help for profiles doesn’t say whether a document post can be scheduled, and its Page article doesn’t list documents either way, so we can’t confirm it.