How to schedule an Instagram carousel, and reuse it on other networks

Choose Image Post, pick your Instagram account, add up to 10 photos and drag them into order, write the caption and a first comment if you like, and schedule it or add it to a queue. SPREVA sends each photo as a JPEG of the size Instagram takes, waits until Instagram has processed every one, and only then publishes the carousel: never half of it.

1. 1

   Press New in the sidebar, choose Post, then Image Post, and pick your Instagram account.

2. 2

   Add the photos, up to 10, from your computer or from the library. Several images become a carousel.

3. 3

   Drag them into order in the row under the caption. The first one is the cover: the one people see in the feed and on your profile.

4. 4

   Write the caption, up to 2,200 characters, and a First comment for the hashtags if you want them out of the caption.

5. 5

   Check the preview, then Schedule it, or Add to queue.

The order is the whole craft of a carousel:

• The strongest picture first. It is the only one people see before they decide to swipe.
• One shape for all of them, square or 4:5. Instagram shows the whole carousel in the first picture's shape, so a different one gets cropped.
• A story in order: before, during, after; or the problem, the steps, the result.
• A last picture with a job: the offer, the date, where to find you.

Before anything goes out:

• Up to 10 photos, each up to 8 MB as you uploaded it.
• PNG and other formats are sent as JPEG, which is what Instagram takes; you are told when that happens.
• Photos from an iPhone in HEIC need exporting as JPEG first.

At its time, Instagram processes every photo before the carousel is put together. If it cannot process one of them, the carousel is not published at all: the post says which went wrong, and you fix it and retry. A carousel with a missing photo never reaches your profile.

Pick other accounts in the same post and each network takes the photos its own way:

SPREVA checks each network on its own. When a post has more photos than a network takes, that account shows an error in Checks before you can schedule, and Use different media gives it fewer photos of its own, along with its own text under Per account.

Each carousel's views, reach, likes, comments, shares and saves come back into SPREVA an hour after it goes out, then over the following month.

Connect your professional Instagram account, put ten photos in order on your computer and schedule them, with the same photos on LinkedIn and Threads. Every plan starts with a 7-day trial.