Older videos per day (backlog pacing)
Posts a set number of your older TikToks to Facebook and Instagram each day, inside your Posts per day.
Past videos are imported but not posted: older videos post only when you turn them on, and the setting starts off. The TikToks you made before are imported into your library so you can see them and their sales; only your new videos, from today on, post by themselves. You don't need to block past videos one at a time. If you only want future videos to post, leave Post older videos off (check it in Settings → Posting schedule); nothing else posts your older videos by itself except Fill my week or Keep my gaps filled, and those run only when you press or switch them on.
Settings → Posting schedule has a Post older videos card. Turn on its switch (Post older videos automatically in the phone app) and EverySqueeze posts your eligible older TikTok videos to Facebook and Instagram each day, alongside your new videos. "How many per day" sets the count: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 or 12 (turning the switch on starts at 3). Turning the switch off stops the drip. In the phone app it's Settings → Posting schedule → Post older videos automatically, with How many per day under it: you don't need the desktop dashboard for this.
How it works with Posts per day
Older videos are part of Posts per day, never extra. Posts per day is the total a platform gets in one day and it counts everything: new TikToks, older videos, scheduled posts and ones you post now. "How many per day" on this card is the most of those posts that may be older videos, counted across Facebook and Instagram together (an older video that goes to both uses two).
Example: Facebook is set to 5 posts per day and older videos to 3. On a day when 2 new TikToks post, 3 older videos post too and Facebook reaches 5, so it is full. On a day with no new TikToks, 3 older videos post and the drip stops there. Either way Facebook never gets more than 5. See Daily limits. Older videos follow the same posting hours and spacing as everything else EverySqueeze posts automatically.
"Start with" sets the order the backlog works through your library: Oldest first works through it in order; Newest first starts with the ones you made most recently. No video is posted twice either way.
Older videos on Facebook but not Instagram
If your older TikToks go to Facebook but not Instagram: "How many per day" is one budget for Facebook and Instagram together, and older videos are planned in the order they were queued. When one platform's automatic posting was on first, its older TikToks were queued first, and the other platform's older videos wait behind them in the Schedule; they come up as the earlier ones post. The same goes the other way round.
More than one TikTok account
With more than one TikTok account, Post older videos posts each older video only where its own account's Facebook and Instagram auto-post switches are on (see Auto-post new TikToks, per platform): an account whose switch for a platform is off has none of its older videos posted there, and its older videos already scheduled there wait for Post anyway or Cancel. The line under the card counts them separately.
Older videos on YouTube and Pinterest
The older-video drip posts only to Facebook and Instagram, so you can't set dates or a number per day for older videos on YouTube (YT) or Pinterest: How many per day and the dates you pick don't apply there, and the drip never posts your older videos there. To put older videos on YouTube, use Fill my week on the Schedule tab of the desktop dashboard: Pick for this week proposes a week of videos that aren't cross-posted yet for you to review, and Auto-fill gaps proposes your best sellers that aren't on YouTube yet (after you confirm a plan, Keep my gaps filled can re-plan every day). Fill my week doesn't do Pinterest: post an older video to Pinterest, or to any platform, yourself from Composer. To see which videos aren't on a platform yet, use Still missing from in Coverage.
Older videos without a product
"Include older videos without a product", under the switch (Include videos without a product in the phone app), is for older videos only. A new account starts with it off; an account that already existed has it on unless you turned it off. While it is on, older videos that have no TikTok Shop product at all post too, once EverySqueeze has checked the video for one (a video not checked yet waits; the line counts those as "not checked for a product yet"). They post without an Amazon link, because there is no product to link. A video that does have a product we aren't sure of waits until you confirm it with Careful; with Give me time to check it waits 12 or 24 hours, then posts with our best match, and with Always link it posts with our best match (all under When we’re not sure of the product) (see Confirm a product to get your Amazon link). Turn it on to include them, or off to post only older videos with a product. A new TikTok without a product is not affected by this switch: it has its own, Include new videos without a product, where Settings shows it (see The new video notification).
Turning the switch off can also take older-video posts without a product that are already scheduled off your schedule. This is rolling out, so on some accounts they stay scheduled and can still post; cancel any you don't want in the Schedule. Where it is on, a note says how many came off, for example Removed 67 older-video posts without a product from your schedule., and any still scheduled come off when they are due. A post you chose Post anyway for, tried Post now on, gave a time or edited the caption of stays. Turning the switch on again lets those videos be scheduled.
Under the card a line says which older videos can post right now, for example 43 older videos can post · 0 waiting on a product confirmation · next check about hourly. EverySqueeze looks for older videos about once an hour, or about once a day when you have posted no new TikToks for a week. When none can post, the line says why: older videos are off, automatic posting is paused, Facebook and Instagram automatic posting is off, every video is waiting on a product confirmation, the videos have not been checked for a product yet, the videos have no product and the switch is off, or nothing is left (every older video is already posted or queued, or is an imported history, a manual upload, a held re-upload, removed from TikTok or a post that failed).
New videos come first. When the coming days are full of older videos, a new TikTok (or a post you schedule without picking a time) takes the earliest older video's time, and the older videos each move one place later, in the same order. A post you set a time for never moves for this. Each day's plan also holds no more older-video posts than your "How many per day" number, so a day is not filled with older videos that could not go out that day anyway.
Older videos never fill the whole schedule either: room is always kept for new TikToks and for anything you schedule yourself. If the schedule is full anyway, the older video scheduled furthest out steps aside for the new one and comes back around later.
Only older videos from certain dates (rolling out)
Only where it is turned on for your account: Only post older videos from lets you pick All dates, Last 3 months, Last 6 months, Last year or Custom dates (a start, an end, or both). Older videos made on TikTok outside those dates never post automatically (the day each video was posted on TikTok, in your timezone). Last 6 months moves with today. Saving dates takes older-video posts already scheduled for videos outside them off your schedule and says how many; a post you gave a time, edited, chose Post anyway for or tried Post now on stays. Each automatic older-video post is checked against your dates again when its time comes, so one whose video is outside them by then (for example it has moved out of Last 6 months, or you changed the dates after it was scheduled) comes off your schedule instead of posting. The line under the card then starts with your dates and counts the videos outside them. To mark many videos Don’t post at once, see Keep a video from posting automatically.
To keep one video out of the older videos for good, open Coverage on the dashboard, find the video (very old ones included; Show more loads further back) and click Don’t post this video under it. The row then says Won’t be posted automatically, and neither the older videos, your new-video posting nor Keep my gaps filled will schedule it; any of its automatic posts already waiting come off your schedule. You can still post it yourself. Allow posting again on the same row undoes it. See Keep a video from posting automatically.
To fill your calendar with specific videos yourself instead of waiting for the daily drip, use Fill my week.
Turning the drip off keeps older-video posts that were already queued: each waits for you to choose Post anyway or Cancel — see Automatic posts waiting because auto-post is off.