YouTube Scheduled Greyed out? Here’s How to Enable Scheduled Uploads on YouTube
Unfortunately, this “schedule option” is not available for many small YouTube creators. For example, I’ve two YouTube Channel, the scheduled option work fine on ourbigger YouTube channel(with 200k subs) but not on our relatively new YouTube channel with just 4k subs.
In fact, you can’t find this schedule option anywhere in theChannel Settingspage as well. Even in theYouTube Studioapp, this scheduled feature is greyed out for the small channel, while it works fine for the bigger channel that I have. Seems like YouTube bind this features to specific channels and don’t offer it to newer YouTube Channel.
Some people suggest once you have to have monetization configured, you get to see the Scheduled options. But that didn’t happen to us. Even after we got verified for monetization, the scheduled option didn’t appear.
One way to fix this problem is by using third-party apps likeTubebuddy, however, it might not be for everyone, as these apps login, on your behalf to publish the videos.
How to Enable Scheduled Uploads on YouTube
But guess what, I accidentally discovered a much simpler way to fix this problem. Simply go to YouTube from your desktop andupload a new video. Before choosing a video file from your computer, click thedrop-down menu next to “Privacy,” then select “Scheduled.” Now, upload the video like you usually do.
Once the video is uploaded and processed, you will be able to schedule your video to whatever day and time you want it to go live. Even if you later decided to change the time, you can easily do so by going toVideo Settingsand look forPrivacy settingssection, then select a date from the calendar. It works on both YouTube desktop or Studio app on mobile.
We tried it and it worked fine. The only downside is you’ll have to manually change Privacy settings to Schedule every time before you upload the video. There is no way to automate this as of now. But if you any other workaround, do let us know in the comments below.
Mrinal Saha
Mrinal is a tech geek who spends half of his day reading and writing about tech. While the nights are spent on shooting or editing YouTube videos. Feel free to geek out with him on-
