Action buttons
Instagram Reels
Instagram publishes no measurement for the buttons down the right of a reel. This is our own reading, drawn large on purpose.
Safe zone checker
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Where the controls land
Instagram puts its own bars and buttons over about 55% of a Story.
- 1. Top barthe progress bars, your name and picture, and the close button.
- 2. Bottom blockthe caption, the buttons, the sticker row and the reply box.
- 3. Left edgethe edge itself, which different phone screens cut into by different amounts.
- 4. Right edgethe same margin as 3, on the other side.
- 5. Keep your text hereNothing drawn on this page covers or cuts this part.
What that means for your picture
- The bottom 35%, 672 pixels: the caption, the buttons, the sticker row and the reply box.
- The top 14%, 269 pixels: the progress bars, your name and picture, and the close button.
- 6% down each side, 65 pixels: the edge itself, which different phone screens cut into by different amounts.
- That leaves 950 × 979 pixels clear, 45% of the frame. Your logo, your price and your phone number belong in there.
- The bottom needs two and a half times the room the top does. That is the part people get wrong: a phone number sitting an inch from the bottom edge looks fine in the photo app and lands under the reply box.
These percentages are Meta's ad specs. Meta publishes nothing separate for a Story or a reel you post yourself — the buttons on the screen are the same either way, so these are the best figures there are, but treat them as guidance rather than a rule the app enforces.
This draws where the app puts its controls. It cannot see what is in your picture, so it cannot tell you whether your phone number is under the caption — look at the drawing and decide.
The file carries the drawing and the numbered key written out under it, so whoever made the graphic can read it without this page. Without a picture you get the frame and the zones on their own, which is the version to hand a designer before anything is drawn.
How to use it
Choose a picture
A JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or GIF from your phone or your computer. A photo taken sideways is turned the right way up for you.
Pick where it is going
A Story, a reel, your profile grid, a Facebook cover or a LinkedIn banner. Each block is drawn where that app puts its own controls, and named with what sits there.
Move it, then download it
Drag the picture, or resize it, until your price, your phone number and your logo sit inside the clear box. Then download the marked-up picture and send it to whoever made the graphic.
Where these figures come from
Meta asks for the top 14%, the bottom 35% and 6% of each side — 65 pixels — of a Story or a reel to be kept free of text and logos.
The lopsidedness is the part to remember. The bottom needs two and a half times the room the top does, because that is where the caption, the buttons and the reply box sit.
- On a phone756 px of your 851
- On a computer560 px of your 851
- Shown nowherethe rest of the file
Facebook takes one 851 × 315 file and shows it full bleed at two shapes, so only the middle survives on both. It does not say which middle, so the frames here are drawn from the centre — drag the cover once it is uploaded to place it exactly.
Every shape it draws
- Instagram Story1080 × 1920
- Instagram Reels1080 × 1920
- Instagram profile grid1080 × 1350
- Facebook Page cover photo851 × 315
- Facebook Story1440 × 2560
- LinkedIn profile banner1584 × 396
| Where it goes | Frame | What happens to it | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instagram Story | 1080 × 1920 | 55% covered | Meta ad specs, Instagram Stories |
| Instagram Reels | 1080 × 1920 | 55% covered, 1 mark we estimated | Meta ad specs, Instagram Reels |
| Instagram profile grid | 1080 × 1350 | 1 mark we estimated | Instagram Help Centre, image resolution |
| Facebook Page cover photo | 851 × 315 | 34% cut, 1 mark we estimated | Facebook Help Centre, Page cover photo |
| Facebook Story | 1440 × 2560 | 55% covered | Meta ad specs, Facebook Stories |
| LinkedIn profile banner | 1584 × 396 | 2 marks we estimated | LinkedIn Help, profile cover image |
Every figure above was read on September 5, 2026, off the platform’s own page:
- Meta ad specs, Instagram Stories
- Instagram Help Centre, image resolution
- Meta ad specs, Instagram Reels
- Facebook Help Centre, Page cover photo
- Meta ad specs, Facebook Stories
- LinkedIn Help, profile cover image
The marks we worked out ourselves
These are nobody’s published measurement. Each has a dashed edge on the drawing and is named as ours wherever it appears, and each is drawn generously on purpose: warning you about a strip that turns out to be visible costs you nothing, and missing one that is covered costs you the picture.
Your profile grid
Instagram profile grid
Instagram publishes no shape for a grid tile. 3:4 is what the grid has shown since the 2025 redesign, and it matches the tallest photo Instagram now accepts.
Profile picture
Facebook Page cover photo
Facebook says only that the profile picture overlaps the cover by about 40 pixels on a phone and partially covers its left side. Those are display pixels on a phone screen, not pixels of your 851-wide file, so this circle is our own reading, drawn large.
Profile photo
LinkedIn profile banner
LinkedIn publishes no position or size for this. It is our own reading of a profile on a computer, drawn large on purpose, and it moves with the size of the window.
On a phone
LinkedIn profile banner
A narrow window shows roughly the middle two thirds of a banner. LinkedIn publishes no figure; this is our reading, drawn generously.
Two platforms are missing
TikTok and YouTube Shorts are not on this page, because neither publishes a figure we could draw honestly. A rectangle invented from a screenshot would look exactly as authoritative as a real one.
TikTok
TikTok says its safe area depends on the shape of the video, how long the caption is and which add-ons are used, and gives advertisers template files instead of a percentage.
TikTok Ads Manager, in-feed ad specifications, read September 5, 2026.
YouTube Shorts
YouTube Shorts shows the safe area as a picture with a red box on it and gives no figures anywhere in the text.
Google Ads Help, Shorts asset specs, read September 5, 2026.
The drawing is Soyla’s own plain shapes, not a copy of anyone’s screen. There are no platform logos, wordmarks, icons or brand colours on this page or in the file you download.
Need the right size as well as the right shape? The Instagram image resizer and the Facebook image resizer export every size a platform asks for, in the same browser and with the same promise about your file.
Common questions
What is a safe zone?
The part of your picture that the app itself does not cover. Every app draws its own bars, buttons and caption over a post, and on a Story or a reel that takes about half the screen. Whatever you need people to read — your price, your phone number, your logo — has to sit in the part that is left.
Will Instagram reject my post if text is in the safe zone?
No. Nothing is rejected and nothing is refused. The buttons are simply drawn on top, so the words underneath cannot be read. These are guidelines about what is visible, not rules about what is allowed.
What size should a Story or a reel be?
1080 × 1920 pixels, which is 9:16. That is what Instagram keeps a photo at, and it is the file most people export. Meta's ads guide recommends 1440 × 2560 — the same shape, more pixels. Keep the top 14% and the bottom 35% clear of anything that has to be read.
Where should I put my phone number and my logo?
Inside the clear box the tool draws, which on a Story or a reel is the middle band. Two places catch people out: the bottom third, where the caption and the buttons sit, and the right-hand edge of a reel, where the like, comment and share buttons stack up. A phone number down the right of a reel sits behind the like count.
Where do these figures come from?
Meta's, Facebook's and LinkedIn's own pages, read on September 5, 2026 and linked on this page. Meta asks for the top 14%, the bottom 35% and 6% of each side of a Story or a reel to be kept free of text and logos. Those are its ad specs; it publishes nothing separate for a Story you post yourself, and the buttons on the screen are the same either way. Anything nobody publishes is drawn with a dashed edge and named as our own reading.
Is the drawing what Instagram actually looks like?
No, and it is not meant to be. The blocks show where an app puts its controls, drawn in our own plain shapes. There are no logos, no copied buttons and no brand colours, on this page or in the file you download.
Which pictures can it open?
JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and GIF, up to 40 MB, using your browser's own decoder. HEIC — the format an iPhone saves by default — is the one it cannot take, because Safari is the only browser that opens it. Our free HEIC to JPG converter opens them anywhere and gives you back a JPG you can bring straight back here.
Why isn't TikTok here?
Because TikTok publishes no fixed safe zone to draw. Its help page says the safe area depends on the shape of the video, how long your caption is and which add-ons you use. YouTube Shorts is missing for a related reason: Google shows its safe area as a picture with a red box on it and gives no figures. A made-up rectangle would look exactly as authoritative as a real one.
Is it free, and does my picture get uploaded?
Free, with no account and no limit, and nothing is uploaded. Your browser opens the file, draws on it and hands the result back. The picture never leaves your device, we never see it, and closing the tab is the end of it.
Read more in our privacy policy and terms of use.