Is there one safe zone for every app?

No, but you can use one box for all of them. 660 × 960 px, starting 120 px from the left and 288 px from the top of a 1080 × 1920 frame, is clear on Reels, Stories, TikTok, Shorts and Facebook Reels.

Can I download a safe zone template?

Yes. Pick the app, then tap “Download the guide”. You get a see-through 1080 × 1920 PNG with the covered areas marked, ready to lay over your video in any editor.

Are these the official numbers?

As close as they get. Meta publishes margins for Reels and Stories ads, and TikTok publishes a safe zone file for its ads; the ordinary apps use the same screens. YouTube publishes none for Shorts, so that one is an estimate. Each guide says which it is.

Does the checker upload my video?

No. Your photo or video is opened on your device and never sent anywhere.

My phone shows the buttons in a slightly different place. Who's right?

Your phone. The apps move things between versions and screen sizes. Use the guide as a starting point and check a test post on your own phone.

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Safe zone checker for Reels, TikTok and Shorts

Pick a frame from your video, choose where it's going, and see what the app's buttons, caption and top bar will cover. Then download the guide as a see-through 1080 × 1920 template for your editor.

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Keep text inside

950 × 979 px

From the official ads guide · Sources

A see-through 1080 × 1920 PNG for the top layer in your editor.

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Safe zone margins on a 1080 × 1920 frame

Keep text, faces and logos at least this far from each edge. TikTok and Shorts also have a column of buttons on the lower right.

Where	Top	Bottom	Sides	Safe area	Based on
Instagram Reel	269 px	672 px	65 px	950 × 979 px	Meta's ads guide
Instagram Story	269 px	672 px	65 px	950 × 979 px	Meta's ads guide
TikTok video	240 px	660 px	120 px	840 × 1020 px	TikTok's safe zone file
YouTube Short	288 px	672 px	43 px	994 × 960 px	Estimate (YouTube publishes none)
Facebook Reel	269 px	672 px	65 px	950 × 979 px	Meta's ads guide

One video for every app

If the same video goes to Reels, TikTok and Shorts, design for all of them at once. The box that is clear on all five is 660 × 960 px, starting 120 px from the left and 288 px from the top. Put your captions and on-screen text in there and nothing covers them anywhere.

Faces can go higher than text: a little overlap with the top bar rarely matters for a face, but it always matters for words.

Using the template in your editor

Download the guide, drop the PNG onto the top track of your timeline, and stretch it to fill a 1080 × 1920 frame. It is see-through, so your video shows underneath. Move your text until it sits inside the dashed line, then hide or delete the guide before you export.

Under “More options”, the crop preview shows what's left of the frame at 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9, for when the same video is cut down for a feed post or a wide version. The download includes the crop line you picked.

Sources

The official pages these numbers come from, and what each one says.

Instagram Help Centre: Reel size and aspect ratios
Reels can be any shape from 1.91:1 to 9:16, at least 720 pixels and 30 frames per second.
Instagram Help Centre: Record a reel on Instagram
Reels can be up to 20 minutes; reels over 3 minutes aren't recommended to new audiences.
Meta ads guide: Instagram Reels video ads
The 14% top, 35% bottom and 6% side safe zone; 9:16 at 1440 × 2560; 4 GB file limit.
Meta Business Help Centre: About text overlays and the Safe Zone for ads
9:16 video in the Instagram feed uses the same safe zone as Reels and Stories; taller phones may zoom and crop the edges.
Instagram Help Centre: Share a photo or video to your story
A story video up to 60 seconds plays as one clip; longer videos are split into several clips.
Meta ads guide: Instagram Stories video ads
The same 14% / 35% / 6% safe zone for Stories; 9:16 at 1440 × 2560; 4 GB file limit.
TikTok Business Help Center: TikTok Auction In-Feed Ads
The downloadable In-Feed safe zone file (measured for this tool); 9:16 at 540 × 960 or more; 16:9 and 1:1 also accepted for ads.
TikTok Business Help Center: Creative best practices
Film vertically at 9:16 and at least 720p.
TikTok for Developers: Content Posting API media guide
Every creator can post 3-minute videos and some can post 5 or 10 minutes; 360 to 4096 pixels a side; 4 GB.
YouTube Help: Understand three-minute YouTube Shorts
Square or vertical videos up to 3 minutes are Shorts; longer or wider uploads are ordinary videos.
YouTube Help: Create YouTube Shorts
Shorts can be up to 3 minutes; Shorts uploads go up to 1080p.
Google Ads Help: Your guide to YouTube Shorts ads
Names the right-hand panel of like, dislike, comment and share buttons; gives no safe-zone measurements.
YouTube Help: Upload videos longer than 15 minutes
15 minutes by default, longer once your account is verified; 256 GB or 12 hours, whichever is less.
Meta for Creators: Making it easier to create videos on Facebook (17 June 2025)
All Facebook videos are shared as reels, with no length or format restrictions.
Meta ads guide: Facebook Reels video ads
The 14% / 35% / 6% safe zone for Facebook Reels; 9:16 at 1440 × 2560; 4 GB file limit.

Instagram's help pages give no file size limit for ordinary reels; 4 GB is the limit in Meta's ads guide.
Story ads can run from 1 second to 60 minutes (Meta ads guide).
TikTok's help centre gives no size, length or file limits for ordinary posts. These come from TikTok's ads help and its developer guide for posting tools.
TikTok has tested uploads of up to 60 minutes with some accounts. No official TikTok page we could read lists it, so this tool uses 10 minutes.
4 GB is the file limit in Meta's ads guide; Facebook's help pages give none for ordinary reels.

Every page above was read on 2 October 2026. Apps change their screens often: if something looks different on your phone, trust your phone.

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Last checked 2 October 2026

The part of a vertical video that the app doesn't cover. Around it sit the account name, the caption, the like and share buttons, and edges that some phones cut off. Text placed outside the safe zone can end up hidden behind them.

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