How to Schedule a Message on Telegram, and Posts in Your Channel

To schedule a message on Telegram, write it, press and hold the Send button, tap Schedule Message and pick the date and time. It works in private chats, groups and channels where you can write. Doublegram AI schedules the posts it writes for your groups and channels, and the ones you write yourself: you choose the time on the post's confirmation message.

Schedule a message in the Telegram app

1. Open the chat, group or channel and write the message, or attach a photo or a file.
2. Press and hold the Send button.
3. Tap Schedule Message.
4. Choose the day and the time, then tap the button at the bottom, which reads like Send tomorrow at 9:00.

With Telegram Premium, the same screen also has Repeat, for a message that goes out again every day, week or month. The menu names change a little between Telegram apps.

Once a message is scheduled, an icon appears in the message field: it opens Scheduled Messages. Press and hold a message there to Send Now, Reschedule, edit or delete it.

Send When Online and reminders

• Send When Online: in a private chat, when the other person is offline and you can see their last seen, holding Send offers this option. The message waits and goes out as soon as they come online.
• Set a Reminder: in Saved Messages, holding Send shows this instead of Schedule Message. At that time Telegram notifies you with the message. The list is called Reminders.

Schedule posts with Doublegram AI

Ask @DoublegramAIBot for the post: write a post for Weekend Hikers News about Sunday's hike. On its confirmation message, tap 🕐 Change the time: 📅 When should it go out? Times are in UTC time. with:

• ⚡ Right away, In 1 hour, Tonight 18:00 (until 18:00), Tomorrow 9:00 and Tomorrow 18:00.
• 📅 Pick day and time: a calendar of 4 weeks at a time, with ⬅️ ➡️, then the hour, then the minutes.

The confirmation message now says 🕐 When: …. Nothing is scheduled until you tap ✅ Confirm and schedule: the bot answers 📅 Scheduled: … with the time and the chats, and 📅 See scheduled posts. The same choice is the last step of a post you write yourself: see Posts with buttons and polls.

A post can go out in several chats and on Discord at once, and it can have a life after publication. Tap 📌 After publishing to pin it when it goes out or have it removed after a while, or say it: publish it and remove it after 1 minute, pin it for 24 hours, at 18:00 change the text to ….

Your scheduled posts

/posts, or 📬 Your posts under /start, opens your posts with 📅 Scheduled and 📬 Published: one button per post, with its time, chat and first words, 6 per page, and 📍 All chats to see one chat only. Tap a scheduled post to open it:

• 🚀 Publish now: 📣 Publish in Weekend Hikers News? with ✅ Publish now.
• 🕐 Change the time: ✅ Moved to …, straight away.
• 📍 Change where, 🔘 Buttons, ✏️ Change text or photo and 📌 After publishing: changed in place, for free.
• 👁 Preview: the post as it will go out.
• 💬 Ask in words: Write what to change: the text, the time, where it goes. A message shows what changes; after ✅ Confirm, ✅ Changed. It goes out …
• 🗑 Delete: 🗑 Delete the post scheduled for …? with 🗑 Yes, delete.

Writing works too: move tomorrow's post to 10. 📬 Published opens the posts already out: see Pin, edit or remove a post.

Reminders from Doublegram AI

Remind me at 18:00 to call the printer or in 10 minutes send me the link of the call becomes a post to 📍 Here, in private: check the time on its confirmation message, and at that moment the message arrives in your private chat with the bot. The request costs one answer, 4 credits with the Standard model.

A reminder that repeats (remind me every day at 8 to check the orders) is an automation with the same text every time: no AI and no credits when it goes out. See Telegram channel automation.