Can you schedule an Instagram Story? Yes, and here is what it leaves out

Yes. Instagram lets apps publish Stories to professional accounts, so in SPREVA you choose Story Post, pick the account, add one image or video and choose a time or a queue. It goes out on its own at that time. What it cannot carry is anything you would add inside the Instagram app: link stickers, polls, questions, music or text placed on top. A Story built around one of those is still one to post from your phone.

Three things, once:

• A professional account. Instagram lets apps publish only to Business and Creator accounts, and switching a personal account is free in Instagram's settings.
• The account connected to SPREVA. Through Instagram's own sign-in, with no Facebook Page needed, or through Facebook if the account is linked to a Page. Both publish Stories.
• One vertical picture or video. A Story fills a 9:16 screen, so a file of 1080 by 1920 pixels shows without bars.

1. 1

   Press New in the sidebar, choose Post, then Story Post: one image or video, gone in 24 hours.

2. 2

   Under Where to post, SPREVA lists only the accounts that can take a Story. Pick one, or several.

3. 3

   Add the picture or the video, from your computer or from your library. A Story is one file.

4. 4

   Leave the text empty. A Story goes out without a caption, so anything you write stays with the post in SPREVA, as a note for your team.

5. 5

   Choose when: Publish now, Schedule for a day and time, or Add to queue to take the next free time of one of your queues.

For a series, say five Stories through a launch day, make five Story posts and give each its own time. Each Story is a post of its own, so each can be moved, approved or deleted without touching the others.

Everything here is added inside the Instagram app, and Instagram does not let any app add it for you:

• Stickers: the link sticker, polls, questions, quizzes and countdowns.
• Music from Instagram's library.
• Text and drawings placed on top. Put the words in the picture before you upload it, or make the Story a short video in Studio, where the captions are part of the video.
• A location and collaborators. SPREVA warns you and leaves them out, rather than failing the Story.

So the useful split is this. Stories that are a picture or a clip with their words already in them (the new menu, the opening hours, the launch date) go in the schedule. Stories built around a sticker (a poll on Friday's flavour, a link to the shop) are for your phone.

A Story's numbers come back into SPREVA like any post's: views, reach, replies, shares and interactions. SPREVA reads them an hour after the Story goes out, and again at six hours.

Instagram gives apps a Story's numbers only while it is live, about a day. So the last reading SPREVA can take is from that first day, and it stays with the post after the Story is gone from Instagram.

With an AI agent connected to SPREVA, a Story is one sentence:

The agent finds the photo by what it shows, makes a Story post for that account and schedules it. Scheduling an hour or more ahead goes through without asking; publishing now asks you first. Connect your agent.

Connect your Instagram account, make one Story Post for each day of the week and give each its time, or add them to a queue. Every plan starts with a 7-day trial.