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How to recycle a post that performed well
One click copies its caption, channels, and media into a new draft. You pick the new date and time. It is not an automatic repeat.
where this happens in the app
Views, 30 days
73,710
+18% on the 30 days before
Saves
1,204
+31% on the 30 days before
Likes
6,880
About the same
Views a day, every platform, last 30 days
Your carousels were saved 2.1 times as often as your single photos.
Last 90 days on Instagram: 43 posts, 12 of them carousels.
1. Open a published post, click Recycle post
The option shows up on posts that went out. Not drafts, not ones still scheduled, not ones that failed. It opens a new draft in the composer instead of touching the original.
2. Caption, channels, and media copy over
The new draft starts with the same caption and the same media attached, with every channel the original posted to already selected, minus any channel whose connection needs reconnecting first.
3. Date and time are left blank, on purpose
This is not an automatic repeat on a schedule. Recycling picks a new moment, not a copy of the original one. You choose when it goes out, the same as any other draft.
Questions
Does recycling a post repeat it automatically?
No. Recycle post copies the caption, channels and media into a new draft and leaves the date and time blank. You choose when it goes out, like any other draft.
Which posts can be recycled?
Posts that went out. Drafts, scheduled posts and failed posts do not show the option, and recycling never changes the original post.
Are all the original channels selected in the recycled draft?
Every channel the original posted to is selected in the new draft, except a channel whose connection needs reconnecting first.
Keep reading
- Adding alt text to the images you schedule
One composer field, sent with the image to Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Bluesky. Why the cap is 500 characters, and why video is left out.
- Saving a draft vs. scheduling a post
A draft needs a caption and a channel. Scheduling adds one rule: the time has to be at least five minutes from now.
- Can I navigate away while a video is uploading?
Yes. The upload keeps going in the background, with its progress in the sidebar on every screen, and a failure stays in the bell until you read it.
- How to schedule YouTube videos in advance
Connect a channel once, pick a time with its own timezone, and the video uploads then. Making it Public is still a manual step in YouTube Studio today.
- Content repurposing: turn one video into ten posts
- Social media metrics that matter (and the vanity ones that don’t)
Give your best posts a second run.
Every channel you have, included. Adding another does not change the price.