hey everyone this is grace from kapwing and tiktok has recently added a new feature that will allow
you to schedule tiktok video posts on your feed you'll be able to upload your videos to tiktok
specify the date and exact time you want it to publish and then without even needing to think
about it at that time when it hits tiktok will automatically publish your video i find this is
a very welcome addition to tiktok and i'm sure you will too because it allows you to be consistent
maintain a regular posting schedule and even post at the exact times that your audience might be
there or just optimal times for posting without needing to sit there and wait and wait for that
exact time to hit before you post and it's also great because since this feature is in tiktok
itself you no longer have to rely on external tiktok scheduling tools to post your tiktok so
in this tutorial i'll show you exactly where to find the feature and how to use it if you
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so since this feature is pretty new it was only released a few weeks ago not everyone will have
access to it yet i don't have access to it on some of my accounts but on others i do so just
stay tuned for having access to it and also don't be surprised if there are changes made to the
future they're probably testing and iterating on it as we speak the other big note is that
it's only currently on a computer or desktop you can't access it from your phone yet and i'm sure
they're going to add that in the future but in the meantime to use the scheduling feature you're
going to have to access tiktok from desktop which is just ticktock.com and then you log in since you
can currently only schedule on your computer that means you'll have to get the actual tiktok video
that you want to schedule to your computer first and there's a couple ways to do this the first one
is just to make your whole tiktok on a computer if you're looking for a vertical video editor
you can try out our online video editor called kapwing it works completely in the browser just
click the first link in the description to get to it and it'll allow you to upload your files work
in a timeline and trim combine different clips add things like audio and then most importantly it'll
allow you to make a vertical 9x16 format video you'll also be able to add text image overlays
as many as you want subtitles transitions and more so i'd recommend that option is the easiest
to work on a computer when you're done with your video on kapwing click the red export button and
then you'll be able to download your finished video file onto your local device so that's the
first way to get your video on your computer for scheduling another way to do it if you do want to
use the tiktok features and effects in the app itself you can make your video in tiktok like
normal with all the different effects that are there and then to actually get it to your computer
without the ticktock watermark before actually posting just click your preview of your video
screen record this which is essentially the whole video and then once you're done screen recording
you'll need to get that file to your computer so one way to easily do this without needing to
email or text message yourself large video files is just use kapwing to host your video you upload
it to kapwing on your phone and then you access your kapwing account from your computer and
download it on your computer so i'll quickly show that again to get to complain click the first link
in the description below then make a new project and click to upload the screen recording you just
made you can make other edits here but click the red export video button after a few moments your
video will be published you want to make sure to sign in to your kapwing account not only to
remove the watermark there but so that you have an account to log into on your computer that's really
crucial because you're essentially storing your video in your account which can be accessed from
any device after you've gotten that video into your kapwing account go to your computer and log
in to kapwing on your computer and then access that video file that you just saved and download
it to your computer once you've gotten the tiktok video you want to schedule to your computer
you can then go and schedule it go to the desktop version of tiktok which is just tiktok.com
log into your account and then click the little icon in the top right corner that has the cloud
with the arrow pointing up that's the upload video button you'll be taken to a page where
you can select your video to upload add your other details like normal for publishing and
then at the bottom you'll see that schedule video toggle make sure to toggle it on and click allow
and then you'll see that there's the date and the time scheduling options upload your tiktok choose
your file and get it onto there and then choose the date that you want the video to be published
choose the time it's going to be in the time zone you're in and the time increments go every five
minutes then add your caption as usual you can tag other accounts and also add hashtags in that box
choose your cover and other settings and then click schedule then it'll give
you this message you can either upload another video or go view your profile
and on your profile you'll see that it shows up but it also has this bar at the bottom that says
scheduled for the date and the time so you can use that to make sure that it's not actually posted
and to make sure that the time is correct then when that date and time comes your video will
automatically be posted and you don't even have to move a muscle so that's how to use the official
scheduling feature from tiktok if that method is too annoying for you you don't want to schedule
it on your computer because it's just annoying to have to exchange files between places and stuff
one little hack i guess you could call it is to do it on your phone there's no actual scheduling
feature but what you can do is make your whole video in tiktok in the app on your phone
and then instead of immediately posting it just click the drafts button save it to your drafts
and then when the time comes when you want to post instead of having to make the whole video in that
moment you just go back into tik tok and click post and then it'll be posted so to demonstrate
i've got my video here this is the final end page of tik tok in the app i filled out the
description and stuff and i would be ready to post this right now but i want to post it at a certain
time so instead of clicking post just click the bottom left corner that says drafts and that
video will be saved to your drafts you can go on with your day do whatever and then when you want
to actually post it at the time click the drafts and then click the draft you want to post and then
just click red post button at the very bottom and it will be published so that's a little trick to
get around the no scheduling feature in the mobile app as of now so that's how to schedule your tic
talk videos to automatically publish let us know if you're planning to use this feature to schedule
your videos in the comments below along with any other feedback or questions you still have
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