The automatic posting switch
One master switch pauses automatic posting on every platform without losing your per-platform settings.
Settings → Posting schedule has one master switch: Auto-post new TikToks. On, each platform follows its own setting. To pause automatic posting everywhere at once, turn it off.
On lets each platform's own "Auto-post new TikToks" switch (the Post to tiles under it, or that platform's card in Settings → Accounts & platforms) decide what happens: a platform that's on auto-posts, one that's off waits for you.
Off stops every platform's automatic posting at once, even ones switched on individually. Your per-platform choices are kept — nothing is turned off — so posting picks back up exactly where it left off once you switch it back on.
Manual posts and older YouTube description updates are separate from this switch and are never affected by pausing.
Under the switch, a short reminder covers another repurposing tool that also auto-posts your TikToks: turn off the auto-posting you don't want duplicated. See Using another repurposing tool too.
While automatic posting is paused, an automatic post in the queue shows as waiting because you approve every post by hand. You can still post any video yourself from Composer, and an automatic post already queued stays there until you post it or cancel it.
Switching ONE platform's "Auto-post new TikToks" off is different: its automatic posts already queued wait with Post anyway and Cancel — see Automatic posts waiting because auto-post is off.
"Paused" on a post
Paused on an automatic post (in Schedule, or on a card in the phone app's Posts) means automatic posting is off: you approve every post by hand, so it doesn't go out on its own. That includes Facebook and Instagram, even when their own Auto-post new TikToks switches are on. If you want to approve every video before it posts, this is the setup to keep: pause automatic posting by leaving the switch off.
To send a paused post, post it yourself (Composer on the computer, its card in Posts in the phone app), or turn Auto-post new TikToks back on in Settings → Posting schedule (in the phone app, the Automatic posting switch in Settings → Posting schedule). An account without an active plan also shows Paused: see Why a post hasn't gone out.
Will posts I schedule still post with auto-post off?
Posts you schedule yourself still go out. The switch stops only what EverySqueeze would queue on its own (new TikToks, older videos). A post you schedule yourself, an older video included, in Composer, with Fill my week or on a card in the phone app's Posts, goes out at the time you picked even with the switch off. If you want to check a video before it posts, fix its product first and then schedule it, or post it yourself with Post now when you're ready.
If your queue is empty
An empty queue after your TikToks imported is normal and is not an import problem. Importing fills your library (Library on the computer, Posts in the phone app); nothing is queued for posting until an automatic setting or you do it. Check in this order:
- The master switch above. If Auto-post new TikToks in Settings → Posting schedule is off, nothing is queued on its own and you approve every post by hand.
- The platform's own switch. A platform whose Auto-post new TikToks is off queues nothing by itself (see Auto-post per platform).
- Older videos. Imported older TikToks are queued only by Older videos per day, which starts off (see Older videos per day), or by Fill my week. Automatic posting queues a new TikTok that arrives while the switches are on.
To post a video now, pick it in Posts (phone app) or Composer (computer).
See Auto-post per platform for the individual platform switches, and Why a post hasn't gone out for the full list of things that can hold a post.