Instagram posts publish on schedule, and the calendar is ready to plan in

Instagram posts go out on schedule, with no stop in Studio

Build a Studio project over the API, point a publish automation at it, and the post leaves on its own. That used to come with a catch. A project nobody had ever opened in the editor could stall when its slot came round, and the only way through was to go open it yourself. That step is gone.

A post that trips over a passing problem now tries again instead of being written off. Real problems still stop it on the spot, like a caption over the limit or a frame at the wrong aspect ratio.

Edit a frame minutes before it publishes and the image that goes out is the one you just made. The earlier version gets dropped rather than posted.

When a post genuinely can't go out, the message says why. "Open the Studio project" now shows up only when opening it really is the answer.

Video is the exception. A frame with anything layered over the video still needs a pass through the editor. For a post you want to run unattended, keep the frame to one full-bleed video and nothing else.

The calendar is ready for real planning

Drag a card to a new day, or stretch it across a longer slot, and it stays where you put it. It used to jump back the moment anything else on the board changed. A move that isn't allowed now returns the card and tells you why, instead of sliding it back in silence.

Week and Day follow the date you're planning against. A date-only property gives you plain day columns with no hours to fight. A property carrying times gives you the hour grid, showing the full day, with a toolbar toggle that narrows it to working hours. Whichever you pick stays with the view. Drop a card at midnight and it stays a timed card; only dates without a time sit in the all-day row.

Events are painted in their column's colour as solid blocks, each carrying the card's icon, so one look across the week tells you what's where. Short slots shrink the block to a single line. Past two events in a slot, the rest fold into a +N you can open, instead of every chip getting shaved to a sliver. Anything already past is dimmed.

The layout switcher moved into the calendar's own toolbar, next to Today and the range arrows. Customize view keeps the date property, which is setup rather than navigation.

An empty calendar tells you which kind of empty it is: nothing in this range, no card carrying the date property you picked, or nowhere to put a new card. The grid stays visible behind the message. Click an empty day and you get a card on that day. Today is marked, weekends take a faint step in surface, and the day headers and time gutter hold still while the grid scrolls under them.

Also in this release

Media Center thumbnails arrive a page at a time as you scroll. Changing folder, format, or sort no longer makes you wait on images you already had.