Yes. Instagram carousels can be scheduled like any other post.
What a carousel accepts
Through BulkPublish:
| Images | Up to 10 per post |
| Size | 8 MB each, JPG |
| Caption | Up to 2,200 characters |
| Media | Required, as with every Instagram format |
Ten images is the ceiling, and the 8 MB per image limit applies to each one individually. A carousel of ten large photos is ten chances to hit it, which makes this the format where the size limit bites most often.
Resize the set before uploading rather than fixing them one at a time after a rejection.
Order matters more than in any other format
The first image decides whether anyone swipes. Everything after it only exists for people who did.
Two consequences for a scheduled carousel:
Put the strongest image first, not the chronologically first. A carousel isn’t a photo album.
Check the order before queueing. Reordering after publishing isn’t possible, and a carousel with the payoff first and the setup second reads as a mistake.
Why carousels suit batch scheduling
Carousels are the format where scheduling earns the most, for a practical reason: they take longer to assemble than a single post.
Choosing ten images, ordering them, and writing a caption is fifteen minutes of work. Doing that spontaneously, daily, doesn’t happen. Doing it for four carousels in one sitting and queueing them across a month does.
If you’re moving to a batch workflow, carousels are usually where the biggest quality improvement shows up, because they’re the format that most rewards preparation.
The caption
2,200 characters, truncated in the feed after a short preview. The first line does the work.
For a carousel specifically, the caption often has a job the images can’t do: telling someone why the set is worth swiping through. A one-word caption on a ten-image carousel wastes the setup.
Scheduling one
- Connect your Instagram account
- Choose Carousel
- Upload up to 10 images, each under 8 MB, in the order you want them
- Write the caption
- Pick a date and time and queue it
Image count and sizes are validated before the post is queued.
Elsewhere
If a carousel is doing explanatory work, LinkedIn’s PDF Carousel does a similar job for a professional audience, and Tumblr accepts up to 30 images in one post if the set is larger than Instagram allows.
BulkPublish publishes to Instagram and 14 other networks.
- Channels: Free: 3 (1 per platform). Pro: 30 (2 per platform). Business: 75 (5 per platform).
- Posts: Free: 3/day. Pro: 30/day. Business: unlimited.
- Storage: Free: 100 MB. Pro: 2 GB. Business: 10 GB.
Ten images per carousel adds up against storage quickly, so that’s the plan limit to check if carousels are a regular format for you.
Short answer
Yes, up to 10 images at 8 MB each. Order deliberately with the strongest image first, since you can’t reorder after publishing. And carousels are the format that benefits most from batching, because they’re the one that most rewards being prepared.