Safe Zone Checker

The part of a full-screen vertical post that the app's own interface leaves visible. Around it sit the top bar, the profile, the caption, the call to action and the like, comment and share buttons: text or a product placed there can be hidden.

For Instagram Reels and Stories, from Meta's ads guide, which asks to keep about 14% at the top, 35% at the bottom and 6% on each side free of text and logos. For TikTok, from readings of the safe zone file TikTok gives advertisers for in-feed ads. For YouTube Shorts, from readings of Google's safe area template for vertical video ads. TikTok and Google publish theirs as images, not figures.

No, they're an approximate guide. Each app moves its interface with the phone's screen, the caption's length, the ad format and its own updates. Keep a margin, and preview your post in the app before you publish it.

9:16, ideally 1080 × 1920 px, the full-screen vertical format of these apps. Another shape fills the 9:16 frame from its center, so its edges are cut in the preview.

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