> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.warmr.so/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How Warmr manages your social media account lifecycle

> Learn how Warmr takes a brand-new social account through warmup, maturity, and ongoing healthy posting with no manual work required.

Every social media account you add to Warmr travels through a predictable lifecycle, from its first login to a mature, posting-ready state that stays healthy for months. Warmr manages each transition automatically, gating your account from posting until it has earned the platform's trust, then keeping it warm indefinitely so it never slips back into a flagged state.

## The five lifecycle stages

<Steps>
  <Step title="Fresh">
    A fresh account is a brand-new login that you've just added to Warmr. At this stage, the account has no posting history and no established trust signals with the platform. Warmr deliberately blocks posting for fresh accounts. Your content queue will build up, but nothing goes out until the account matures. This is not a bug; it's the single most important guardrail Warmr provides.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Warmed Up">
    Once Warmr begins its daily warmup sessions, the account enters the warming-up stage. Warmr drives your real iPhone to scroll feeds, like content, follow accounts, and run searches, every day, on a realistic cadence. These actions accumulate trust signals that tell the platform this is an active, genuine user. See [Warmup](/concepts/warmup) for a full breakdown of each action.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Matured">
    After sufficient warmup activity, Warmr determines the account has passed the platform's trust thresholds and marks it as matured. A matured account joins your active posting rotation. The exact time this takes varies by platform and account history. Warmr monitors the signals automatically and advances the account when it's ready.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Kept Warm">
    Maturity isn't a destination. It's a state you maintain. Even accounts that aren't scheduled to post continue receiving daily warmup activity to keep their trust scores healthy. A dormant account can lose ground quickly; Warmr's keep-warm routine prevents that from happening.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Posting">
    When an account enters a posting slot, Warmr doesn't just upload your content and move on. Every post cycle is wrapped in warmup activity: the account engages naturally before the post goes out, and again afterward. This makes each posting event look like a natural moment in a busy user's day, not a robotic upload.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Warning>
  Never force a fresh account into posting before it matures. Warmr blocks this automatically, but bypassing the warmup phase dramatically increases ban risk.
</Warning>

<Note>
  The time it takes an account to move from fresh to matured varies by platform and the age of the account. Newer accounts on stricter platforms like TikTok typically require longer warmup windows than older accounts on more lenient platforms. Warmr monitors trust signals continuously and advances each account when, and only when, it's ready. You don't need to track this manually.
</Note>

For a detailed look at what happens during the warmup phase and why each action matters, see [Account Warmup](/concepts/warmup).