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How to schedule TikTok posts

To schedule TikTok posts with Blackbox (blackbox.plus), connect your TikTok account, open a ready post from Plan, go to step 3, Post, and pick the TikTok account, with Instagram too if you like. A TikTok panel opens. Under Who can see this, pick Everyone, Friends, Followers or Only me; nothing is chosen for you, and until TikTok audits the Blackbox app only Only me is available. Leave Allow comments on or switch it off. If the post promotes a brand, product or service, tick commercial content and choose Your brand or Branded content, which adds TikTok's label. The panel shows the title, taken from the caption's first line without hashtags and up to 90 characters, and the description. Then click Publish, or Schedule for a time between 2 minutes and 180 days ahead. Pictures go as a photo post and a video as a video. TikTok does not let apps delete posts.

You'll need
Time
About 3 minutes 8 steps Updated
You'll end with
A TikTok post scheduled, with who can see it, comments and labels set
Do it in Blackbox Open Plan, after you sign in
Example
Posting to TikTok and Instagram in one send

How to schedule TikTok posts in Blackbox

  1. Step 1:Open the post

    Click Plan, then the post on its day. With no day, it is in the brand’s Library.

    You'll see: The post, with its slides and the Caption, Check and Post steps.

    Open this in Blackbox

  2. Step 2:Go to Post

    Click step 3, Post.

    You'll see: Where it goes, with an Organic card and a Paid card.

  3. Step 3:Pick your TikTok account

    In Organic, click your TikTok account — and your Instagram account too, if you want both.

    You'll see: A TikTok panel, starting with Posting as and your account.

  4. Step 4:Choose who can see it

    Under Who can see this, pick Everyone, Friends, Followers or Only me.

    You'll see: Your choice picked — until TikTok audits Blackbox, only Only me is offered.

  5. Step 5:Set comments

    Leave Allow comments on, or switch it off.

    You'll see: The switch the way you want it.

  6. Step 6:Mark commercial content

    If the post promotes something, tick This post promotes a brand, product or service. Then choose Your brand, Branded content, or both.

    You'll see: The label TikTok will add: "Promotional content" or "Paid partnership".

  7. Step 7:Check the title and description

    Read the Title and Description TikTok will show.

    You'll see: Both within their limits, or a note where TikTok cuts them.

  8. Step 8:Publish or schedule

    Click Publish to post now, or Schedule to pick a time.

    You'll see: Post this now? to confirm, or the Date and Time to pick.

Good to know

  • Until TikTok audits the Blackbox app, TikTok only lets it post as Only me — private to the account. This is TikTok’s rule for apps it has not reviewed yet.
  • The title is your caption’s first line without hashtags, up to 90 characters, unless you wrote a TikTok title on the Caption step. The description is the caption, up to 4,000.
  • Branded content cannot be posted as Only me.
  • If comments are off for the whole account, Allow comments is locked off here too.
  • Pictures go to TikTok as a photo post; a video goes as a video. TikTok sets a maximum video length for each account.
  • A scheduled time can be 2 minutes to 180 days ahead. By posting you agree to TikTok’s Music Usage Confirmation, as the panel notes.
  • Blackbox can’t delete a TikTok post. Delete it in the TikTok app; the post page links to TikTok’s instructions.
  • If a post shows Failed or Needs checking, see If a post didn't go out: failed, needs checking, send again.

Official docs

If something doesn't work

My TikTok post can only be Only me

TikTok restricts apps it has not audited yet to private posts, so the other choices are not offered. Post it, then change who can see it in the TikTok app.

My carousel went to TikTok as a photo post

That is how TikTok takes a carousel: the slides go out as a photo post, in the same order. Pick both accounts to send it to Instagram and TikTok in one go.

My video was refused as too long

TikTok sets the longest video each account can post, and the message says what it is for yours. Trim the video and upload it again.

I’m not sure whether to tick commercial content

Tick it whenever the post promotes something. Your brand adds “Promotional content”; Branded content, for a paid partnership with another brand, adds “Paid partnership”.

There’s no delete button for my TikTok post

Blackbox can’t delete a TikTok post. Click Open it on TikTok on the post and delete it in the app.

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