Autopilot (real-device posting)
Warm accounts and post from real iPhones plugged into your own Mac, instead of through the platform API.
Autopilot is a macOS app that drives real iPhones over USB. It scrolls, watches and likes at a human pace to warm an account, then posts with a real tap. It exists because the official API cannot finish the job: TikTok's Content Posting API can only drop a photo post into the creator's drafts inbox for un-audited apps, so someone still has to open the phone and publish it. It also has no access to the native composer, so features like picking a trending sound are unavailable through it. Autopilot closes that last step. It is not a ranking trick — we make no claim that a device-posted slideshow travels further than the same one posted by hand.
Driving an account with software violates TikTok's and Instagram's terms of service, and accounts can be banned. No tool can promise otherwise. Run it on accounts you are willing to lose, and read the pacing defaults before raising them.
What you need
- A Mac (macOS 13 or later) that stays awake and online.
- One or more iPhones connected by USB, each already signed in to the account you want warmed.
- A Pro or Business plan — Autopilot is not available on Free or Starter.
Connect a Mac
- Open Autopilot devices in your workspace and create a licence, naming it after the Mac it is for.
- Copy the key — it is shown once — and paste it into Autopilot on that Mac, via the licence chip in its top bar.
- The key binds to the first Mac that activates it. Moving to new hardware is a Release, not a new key.
Release only clears the machine binding, so the same key can move to a different Mac. Revoke kills the key: that Mac stops warming within minutes and cannot be reactivated with it.
Send a slideshow to a phone
Once a Mac is connected and reporting its accounts, any finished slideshow shows a Send to Autopilot action. Pick which phone account should post it, edit the caption if you want, and it lands in that phone's queue. Nothing is uploaded — the Mac downloads the same slide images the CDN already serves.
If the picker is empty, no Mac is reporting accounts yet. Open Autopilot on the Mac with your iPhones plugged in; it publishes its list on the next refresh.
Warm-up before posting
A fresh account that starts posting immediately is the single clearest bot signal, so Autopilot will not do it. Each account ramps through a daily action budget — mostly scrolling and watching, some liking, rarely following — before it is considered mature enough to post. The pacing is randomised per action and per session; there is no fixed interval to fingerprint.
Limits by plan
| Pro | Business | |
|---|---|---|
| Macs (licences) | 1 | 2 |
| iPhones driven at once, per Mac | 1 | 3 |
| Accounts per Mac | 8 | 24 |
| Queue storage | 5 GB | 20 GB |
Phones, sessions and network are yours. This service only holds the licence and the content queue; it never sees an account password and never touches a device.