Schedule Instagram Stories

Create, schedule, and publish Instagram Stories from Statusbrew's Story Composer, either directly or through a mobile reminder.

Who Can Schedule Stories?

You need one of these publishing permissions on the space:

• Create post (needs approval)

• Full publishing access

How Do I Schedule An Instagram Story?

1. Go to Compose and click Story Composer.

2. Select your Instagram profiles from the Profile Picker.

3. Upload your images or videos. Drag and drop the thumbnails to change the order in which they publish.

4. Choose a publishing option, Direct publishing or Publishing via mobile reminders.

5. Click Choose date & time, then Post Now or Schedule.

A single story can carry up to 10 images or videos in any combination.

Instagram's API does not accept interactive overlays from third-party tools. Polls, Q&A, music, filters and stickers cannot be added to a story published through Statusbrew. To use them, publish via mobile reminders and add them in the Instagram app before you share.

What Is The Difference Between Direct Publishing And Mobile Reminders?

Publishing Via Mobile Reminders

1. Choose Publishing via mobile reminders.

2. Select the users or user groups to notify.

3. Add Mobile Publisher Notes if the publisher needs context. Open the story media and click Edit mobile publisher notes at the bottom left. Notes can contain up to 5000 characters and include links.

   

4. Schedule the story as usual.

Only the users or user groups you select get the reminder. If you select nobody, everyone with publishing access gets it.

At the scheduled time, the people you chose get a push notification on their mobile device. To publish:

1. Tap the push notification in the Statusbrew mobile app.

2. Tap to copy any story notes or link sticker URLs.

3. Tap Stories, add any Instagram features you want, then tap the share icon to publish.

What If I Miss A Reminder?

You can resend it from either app.

• In the web app, go to Publish > Past Reminders. Open the story, then click More actions > Resend notification.

• In the mobile app, go to Past Reminders, open the story, tap More, then tap Share on Instagram.

Editing Stories

Stories publish at 9:16. If your image is square or landscape, you can fix it in the Story Composer rather than cropping it by hand first.

Hover over an uploaded image to get these options:

• Edit photo: Opens Statusbrew's built-in image editor to change the ratio, apply filters, or add text.

• Smart crop: Reframes the image to the aspect ratio each network prefers, using AI to keep your subject in frame.

• Remove: Deletes the image or video from your story.

How To Use Smart Crop

1. Hover over the uploaded image and click Smart crop. The Smart crop for networks dialog will open.

2. Under Cropping for, review the networks. Statusbrew pre-selects them based on the profiles on your story. Uncheck any you do not need.

3. Click Generate crops.

Each network you select gets its own reframed version in that network's tab. Your Global tab keeps the original image.

Smart crop changes the framing only. It does not add filters, text or stickers. For those, use Edit photo.

What Else Can I Add To A Story?

• Internal title, up to 64 characters, used only inside Statusbrew to tell similar stories apart.

• Tags, Watchers and Custom Fields.

• Share access, controlling who on your team can see the story.

• Post color, for spotting it quickly in the Project.

• Save as draft, to finish the story later.

  

• The live preview on the right of the Compose screen, showing how the story will look once published.

  

• Clear, to empty the Compose screen and start again. Your work in progress is kept otherwise.

  

For story image and video formats and sizes, see Media Specifications For Different Social Networks.

FAQs

Can I Schedule One Story To Several Instagram Profiles At Once?

Yes. Select every profile in the Profile Picker before you upload. After scheduling, each profile's story is a separate post, so edit them individually. See How To Edit Stories In Statusbrew.

Can I Add Polls, Music, Stickers Or Link Stickers?

Not through direct publishing. Instagram's API does not accept them from third-party tools.

Use Publishing via mobile reminders instead. Put the link or copy in Mobile Publisher Notes, then the publisher pastes it into the Instagram app when the reminder arrives.

How Many Images Or Videos Can One Story Have?

Up to 10, in any combination of images and videos.

Can I Edit A Story After Scheduling It?

Yes. Open it from Publish, click Edit post, and the Story Composer opens with your content. You can also change the title, schedule, tags, watchers, and custom fields straight from the post detail view.

You cannot change which profiles a story goes to once it is scheduled.

Why Does My Story Look Cropped Or Stretched?

Instagram publishes stories at 9:16. Anything squarer or wider is fit to that aspect ratio.

Run Smart crop before scheduling so the reframing keeps your subject in view, rather than leaving it to Instagram.

Can I Repost An Instagram Post Or Story Mention As A Story?

Yes, if the post is in Engage first.

For your own published post, it must have at least one comment before it syncs into Engage as a conversation. Content where someone mentions or tags you can also sync, including story mentions, media tags, and post mentions. Regular Instagram DMs cannot be reposted.

Open the conversation in Engage, click the repost icon on the postcard, then choose Repost as Story.

A story reposted from Statusbrew publishes as an ordinary story. It does not carry the clickable post preview that Instagram adds when you repost natively, because the Instagram API does not support it. This applies to your own posts and to mentions.

Can I Repost From The Calendar Instead?

No. In Project, an Instagram post offers Duplicate post, which reuses the content as a new post. Reposting as a story only works from Engage.

What Formats And Sizes Do Stories Support?

See Media Specifications For Different Social Networks for the current formats, file sizes, and video lengths.