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Instagram Reels safe zone
Keep text and faces inside the middle 950 × 979 px of a 1080 × 1920 Reel: 269 px clear at the top, 672 px at the bottom and 65 px at each side. Check a frame of your Reel below, or download the template.
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What covers a Reel, and where
| Part of the screen | On 1080 × 1920 | Share of the frame | What sits there |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top | 269 px | 14% | The top bar and, on ads, the account name and Sponsored label |
| Bottom | 672 px | 35% | Username, caption, audio, and the like, comment and share buttons |
| Each side | 65 px | 6% | Cut off when a phone taller than 9:16 zooms in to fill its screen |
| Safe area | 950 × 979 px | About 47% | Your text, captions, faces and logo |
Why Reels templates disagree
Search for a Reels safe zone and you'll find a 1080 × 1440 centre area on one site and 1010 × 1280, with 220 px at the top and 420 px at the bottom, on another. Neither comes from Instagram. Instagram doesn't publish a safe zone for ordinary Reels at all.
The only official figure is in Meta's ads guide: leave 14% of the top, 35% of the bottom and 6% of each side free. On a 1080 × 1920 frame that is 269, 672 and 65 px. This tool uses those numbers. They're stricter at the bottom than most templates, because the caption grows when someone taps “more”, and the buttons sit low on the right.
Where to put captions on a Reel
Burned-in captions read best just above the bottom margin, so their last line ends around 1248 px down. Keep lines short enough to stay inside the side margins: about 30 characters at a size people can read on a phone.
Your cover frame matters too. On your profile and in the feed, a Reel can appear cut down to a shorter shape, so use the 4:5 crop preview (under “More options”) to check the cover still reads.
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Last checked 2 October 2026
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