# Social Post (Instagram)

Part of the SocialArt.ai documentation. Index: https://socialart.ai/llms.txt · Open Social Post: https://socialart.ai/social-post/posts

Social Post publishes and schedules content from the studio straight to Instagram.

## Connecting accounts

- Connect unlimited Instagram accounts under Social Post → Accounts. You sign in with Instagram and grant SocialArt.ai permission to publish.
- **Professional accounts only.** Instagram only allows publishing through Business or Creator accounts. Switch a personal account to professional in the Instagram app (Settings → Account type and tools) and try again.
- Access tokens are refreshed automatically. If Instagram revokes access (for example after a password change), reconnect the account.
- Disconnect an account at any time; existing published posts stay on Instagram.

![The Accounts page with connected Instagram accounts](https://socialart.ai/img/help/social-post/accounts-light.webp)

## Post types

- **Feed:** 1–10 images or videos (a carousel when more than one).
- **Reel:** one video.
- **Story:** one image or video.

## Composer

- Pick media from your generations, from editor renders, or upload your own (images up to 8 MB, Instagram's limit; videos up to 100 MB).
- Write a caption with emoji support and tag a location on Feed posts, Reels and Stories (Instagram does not support locations on carousels).
- Post to several accounts at once, with a different caption or media per account if you like.
- A live Instagram preview shows exactly how the post will look.

![The post composer: accounts, post type, caption and media on the left, the live Instagram preview on the right](https://socialart.ai/img/help/social-post/composer-light.webp)

## Publish or schedule

- **Publish now**, or **schedule** a date and time; scheduled posts go out automatically.
- **Calendar** (https://socialart.ai/social-post/calendar): month and week views of everything planned and published.
- **Duplicate** any post to reuse it, and **save drafts** to finish later.

![The content calendar with scheduled and published posts](https://socialart.ai/img/help/social-post/calendar-light.webp)
![The Posts overview with status, content, media and accounts per post](https://socialart.ai/img/help/social-post/posts-light.webp)

## Statuses and retries

- Posts move through draft, scheduled, publishing, published, partially failed or failed.
- Drafts and scheduled posts can be edited; drafts, scheduled and failed posts can be deleted. Published posts stay in the list for reference.
- If one account fails while others succeed, retry that account alone from the post.
- Media used by a scheduled post cannot be deleted until the post is published.