VA posts waiting for approval

Where the owner approves an assistant's posts, why they wait, and how to change it.

A virtual assistant's first posts wait for the owner's approval while Post without asking me is off (Let my assistant post without asking me in the older layout). A new assistant starts with it on; one invited before October 5, 2026 started with it off. This is expected behavior, not a bug — it's controlled by two switches the owner sets.

Check these in order

1. Open VA mode. Posts waiting on you appear under "Needs your OK" (on Home, Schedule and VA mode → Settings) with the platform and video for each one, plus Approve and Send back buttons. With more than one pending, an Approve all button clears the whole batch.
2. Check the approval-first count. Posts that wait for my OK first, right under the posting switch (the Approval-first count in the older layout), is how many of the assistant's posts wait for your yes before EverySqueeze starts releasing the rest on its own, up to the per-day limit. With the posting switch off, an assistant needs approval for their first few posts; once that count is reached, later posts go out automatically.
3. Check the trust switches in VA mode → Settings: Post without asking me and Cancel scheduled posts without asking me. Both start on for a new assistant, and off for one invited before October 5, 2026. With the posting switch off, your assistant's posts wait for you only until the approval-first count is reached; after that they go out on their own (up to the per-day limit). Turning the switch on releases their posts automatically from the start and skips the approval-first count entirely.
4. Check "Videos your assistant can post per day". Approving a post yourself still respects this limit and your posting hours — a released post is not exempt from the schedule.
5. Notifications. You see every pending approval in VA mode itself; there is no separate notification channel documented beyond the pending list and the counts shown there.

A post marked By AI was scheduled by an AI assistant key, not a person. It always waits for your approval, whatever the switches above say. The article about letting an AI assistant help with posting has the details.

Still stuck?

Approving, rejecting or leaving a post pending never posts it early or loses it — a post you Send back stays available for your assistant to fix and resubmit. If posts are stuck waiting when you expected the trust switches to release them, check that the switch you expect is actually on — it applies immediately, including to posts already sitting in the queue, not only ones scheduled after the change. Still confused? Use Report a problem (in Pip's menu or the Help button).