Yes, you can schedule posts on LinkedIn, natively, with no third-party tool. LinkedIn has built scheduling straight into the post composer since 2022, on both desktop and mobile, and it is free for every account.
So if you just want to write a post now and have it go out next Tuesday at 9am, you do not need anything beyond LinkedIn itself.
This page covers the whole question in order: the native steps (desktop, mobile, company pages), where native scheduling runs out of road, when that is fine and when it is not, what time you should actually schedule for, and how to edit or cancel a queued post.
How to schedule a post on LinkedIn (native, desktop)
The clock is hiding in plain sight. The whole flow takes five steps:
Start a post. From the LinkedIn homepage, click Start a post to open the composer.
Write it. Type your text and add media: an image, a video, a document or a poll.
Find the clock icon. It sits next to the blue Post button, bottom-right of the composer. Click it.
Pick a date and time. LinkedIn schedules against your device's time zone, so double-check it if you travel.
Confirm. Click Next, then Schedule. Done. Your post is queued and will publish on its own.
That is the entire native flow, and it takes about ten seconds once you know where the clock is. One caveat: LinkedIn does not schedule event, job or service posts at all, and on a company page, polls, multiple photos and reshares cannot be scheduled either.
How to schedule a post on LinkedIn mobile
The mobile app works the same way, with the icon in a slightly different spot:
Tap Post to open the composer in the LinkedIn app.
Write your post and attach any media.
Tap the clock icon near the top of the composer (next to the Post button).
Set your date and time, confirm, and tap Schedule.
The feature parity between desktop and mobile is good, so you can queue a week of content from your phone if that is where you write.
Can you schedule posts on a LinkedIn company page?
Yes. Native scheduling is available on LinkedIn company pages too, not just personal profiles, as long as you post from the page itself.
Go to your company page (or switch to it via Post as in the composer).
Open the composer from the page, write your post, and add media.
Use the same clock icon to set the date and time.
Schedule it.
You need page admin rights to post and schedule on behalf of a page. The mechanics are identical to a personal post once you are posting as the page.
The honest limits of native LinkedIn scheduling
Native scheduling is genuinely good for "write one post, send it later." It is not built to run a content operation. The limits show up as soon as you plan more than one post at a time:
No recurring posts. Every scheduled post is a one-off you set by hand, never "every Monday at 9am."
No drafts-to-schedule pipeline. You can schedule a draft, but one at a time: drafts and scheduled posts stay in separate lists, with no calendar to plan them in.
Editing sits in a separate list. Edit post and Modify schedule run from the scheduled-posts list, one at a time.
A scheduling window cap. LinkedIn Help: 10 minutes ahead on a profile, 1 hour on a page, 3 months maximum.
No analytics loop. Nothing ties when you scheduled to how the post did, so your best slots stay guesswork.
Planning a quarter ahead is fine; a full year is not. These limits are the natural ceiling of a feature bolted onto a composer rather than a planning tool.
When native LinkedIn scheduling is enough, and when you need a tool
Two profiles, and the line between them is clear:
Native is plenty if you post a few times a week, you write each post when inspiration hits, and "later today" or "tomorrow morning" is as far ahead as you plan. The clock icon does exactly that job, for free, with zero setup.
You have outgrown native when you are running a real calendar: batching a week or a month in one sitting, posting on a fixed cadence, managing more than one account, repurposing the same idea across slots, or trying to learn which times actually work for your audience.
The moment you find yourself keeping a spreadsheet of "what goes out when," the native clock is fighting you.
That gap is exactly what a dedicated tool fills: a real calendar, drafts that flow into scheduled slots, multi-account support, and an analytics loop so your scheduling gets smarter over time.
Which LinkedIn post scheduler should you use?
It depends on what you have outgrown. Four short answers, each with the page that proves it:
You want the shortlist. The best LinkedIn scheduling tools runs 14 schedulers through the @mention test and the publishing-method test.
You want it free. How to schedule LinkedIn posts free sorts native, the $0 plans and the no-card trials.
You want the native ceiling. LinkedIn's native scheduler vs tools covers carousels, polls, first comments, editing and multiple accounts.
You run LinkedIn for clients. MagicPost for agencies adds client approval, one workspace per client and white-label reports.
Stop scheduling one post at a time. MagicPost's LinkedIn post scheduler lets you plan and automate your whole calendar in one place: write and queue a week or a month at once, keep drafts and scheduled posts in a single view.
Post on a steady cadence without re-opening the composer every day. It is the answer to every limit in the section above.
Going fully hands-off is a step beyond queueing single posts. We cover it in how to automate LinkedIn posts.
What time should you schedule your LinkedIn posts for?
Scheduling is only half the question. The other half is when, and guessing is the most common mistake.
Two things decide a post's reach before anyone reads it: the time it goes out and how often you post. We have measured both on our own corpus, so you do not have to rely on folklore:
For the slot, see the best time to post on LinkedIn: the days and hours that actually earn engagement.
For how many, see how often you should post on LinkedIn: the cadence that builds reach without burnout.
Plug those two answers into your scheduling and the clock icon starts working from data instead of guesswork.
How to edit or cancel a scheduled post
LinkedIn lets you edit, reschedule or delete a scheduled post, but only from the scheduled-posts list, not from the feed. The steps, per LinkedIn Help:
Open your scheduled posts (see below).
Click the More icon in the upper right of the post.
Choose Edit post to change the text or media, or Modify schedule to change the time.
Cancelling is simpler: open your scheduled posts, find the one you want gone, and delete it. It will not publish.
It works, but it is one post at a time, from a list. A proper calendar lets you edit a queued post in place and see what else goes out that week.
If you are constantly tweaking before posts go out, a tool that treats scheduled posts as editable drafts saves the back-and-forth. (Building a backlog of polished posts you can drop into slots is the job of LinkedIn post drafts.)
Where do I find my scheduled LinkedIn posts?
This trips a lot of people up, because the list is hidden behind the same clock:
Open the composer (Start a post).
Click the clock icon next to the Post button.
Click View all scheduled posts (the link sits below the date and time picker).
From there you can see everything queued and delete anything you want to cancel or rebuild.
If scheduling is new to you and you want the basics of publishing first, start with how to post on LinkedIn, then come back here to queue them ahead.
FAQ
Can you schedule posts on LinkedIn?
Yes. LinkedIn has native, free scheduling built into the post composer since 2022, on both desktop and mobile. Write your post, click the clock icon next to the Post button, pick a date and time, and click Schedule.
It works for text, images, videos, documents and polls on a personal profile; a company page schedules text, images and video, but not polls, multiple photos or reshares. No third-party tool is required for basic scheduling.
Can you schedule a post on a LinkedIn company page?
Yes. Scheduling works on company pages the same way it does on personal profiles. Open the composer while posting as the page, write your post, click the clock icon, set your date and time, and schedule. You need admin rights on the page to do this.
Can you edit a scheduled post on LinkedIn?
Yes. LinkedIn Help documents an Edit post and a Modify schedule action: open your scheduled posts, click the More icon on the post, and pick one. It is done from the scheduled-posts list, one post at a time, with no calendar view; tools that treat scheduled posts as editable drafts in a calendar remove that friction.
Where do I see my scheduled posts on LinkedIn?
Open the post composer, click the clock icon next to the Post button, then click View all scheduled posts below the date and time picker. That list shows everything you have queued, and you can delete any post there to cancel it.
How far in advance can you schedule a post on LinkedIn?
Between 10 minutes and 3 months ahead on a personal profile, and between 1 hour and 3 months on a company page, per LinkedIn Help. If you need to lay out a calendar longer than three months, that is beyond what native scheduling offers and a dedicated planning tool is the better fit.
Can you schedule recurring posts on LinkedIn natively?
No. Native scheduling handles one-off posts only, and there is no built-in option to repeat a post on a fixed schedule. Planning a steady cadence by hand is what a dedicated calendar speeds up (see the best LinkedIn scheduling tools); going further than that is automation, which we cover in how to automate LinkedIn posts.
Run your whole LinkedIn calendar from one place. With MagicPost you can write, schedule, and analyze all your LinkedIn content together, so planning ahead runs from one calendar instead of a clock icon you click one post at a time.
