The TikTok safe zone on a 1080 × 1920 video starts 240 px below the top and ends 660 px above the bottom, with 120 px at each side and a 300 px wide buttons column on the right from y 840 down. Drop your video or a frame to see what the app covers, mark your captions, and download a free transparent template.
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TikTok Ads Help: Auction In-Feed Ads (safe zone file, 2025) · Checked October 17, 2026
These are the platforms' own safe zones for ads. None of them publishes numbers for regular posts, so the ad zones are the safest guide for both.
Choose or drop a vertical video or image
Or use the overlay as it is. Nothing is uploaded.
Drag on the frame to mark text, a logo or a face. On a phone, tap Add a caption box.
Drag on the frame to mark a caption, a logo or a face, and see if each one is safe on every platform.
Transparent PNG, no watermark. Put it on the top track in CapCut, Premiere or DaVinci, or as the top layer in Canva, and hide it before you export.
Drop a clip, mark what matters, download what you need. No account, no upload.
Drag in an MP4, MOV, PNG or JPG, or start with the empty 9:16 frame. Scrub through a video to check every moment, with the safe zone drawn on top.
Drag a box around each caption, logo or face. The checker tells you if it is safe on TikTok, Reels, Stories and Shorts, and how many pixels to move it.
Save a transparent template in 1080 × 1920 or 2160 × 3840, the whole pack as a ZIP, or the checked frame with the overlay to share with your team.
No guessed margins. Every line on the overlay comes from a file TikTok publishes, and the page tells you which one.
TikTok does not print pixel values in its help text; it links safe zone files. We measured the current In-Feed file from April 2025 and draw exactly that: 240 px at the top, 660 px at the bottom, 120 px at the sides and a buttons column 300 px wide from y 840.
| Top | Bottom | Sides | Buttons | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok | 240 | 660 | 120 | 300 @ y 840 |
| Reels | 269 | 672 | 65 | 227 @ y 1152 |
| Stories | 269 | 672 | 65 | 227 @ y 1152 |
| Shorts | 288 | 672 | 48 / 192 | · |
| All platforms | 288 | 672 | 120 / 192 | 300 @ y 840 |
TikTok's file uses two colors. Red marks what the interface may cover: the top tabs, the caption and account name, the buttons. Blue marks the 120 px side bands that some phones crop. The checker keeps that difference.
TikTok says the longer the caption, the smaller the safe zone. Pick 1 to 4 caption lines and the bottom margin grows from 704 px to 860 px, taken from TikTok's 2021 files that were made for exactly this. Those files also start the buttons column higher, at y 360.
Drag a box around a caption, a logo or a face. Each box shows whether it is safe, which part of the app covers it, and the shortest move to fix it, such as move up 310 px. One click moves it.
Posting the same clip everywhere? The all platforms view combines TikTok's zone with Meta's Reels zone and Google's Shorts zone, so whatever stays inside is safe on all three.
Transparent PNG overlays with nothing in the safe area: no tint, no logo, no watermark. Shaded or lines only, in 1080 × 1920 or 2160 × 3840, for CapCut, Premiere, DaVinci or Canva.
Ready to drop on the top track of your editor. Each file is 1080 × 1920, transparent where your content is safe and tinted where the app covers it.
TikTok feedT 240 · B 660 · L 120 · R 120 · shadedDownload PNGTikTok feedT 240 · B 660 · L 120 · R 120 · linesDownload PNGTikTok, 4 line captionT 252 · B 860 · L 120 · R 120 · shadedDownload PNGTikTok TopViewT 240 · B 240 · L 120 · R 120 · shadedDownload PNGInstagram ReelsT 269 · B 672 · L 65 · R 65 · shadedDownload PNGInstagram ReelsT 269 · B 672 · L 65 · R 65 · linesDownload PNG
Reels ad with disclaimerT 269 · B 768 · L 65 · R 65 · shadedDownload PNG
Instagram StoriesT 269 · B 672 · L 65 · R 65 · shadedDownload PNG
YouTube ShortsT 288 · B 672 · L 48 · R 192 · shadedDownload PNGAll platformsT 288 · B 672 · L 120 · R 192 · shadedDownload PNGT, B, L and R under each file are the top, bottom, left and right margins in px. Need 2160 × 3840 or the lines only style? Make it with the checker above, or download every template as one ZIP.
The official numbers, what they mean, why sites disagree, and how to use a template while you edit.
The TikTok safe zone is the part of a vertical video that the app does not cover with its own interface. Outside it, the top tabs, your caption, your account name and the buttons for likes, comments and shares sit on top of the picture, and anything you put there can be hidden.
TikTok publishes the safe zone as files in its Ads Help Center rather than as numbers in text. Measured on a 1080 × 1920 frame, the current In-Feed file from April 2025 gives these margins:
| Top | Bottom | Sides | Buttons | Basis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok, Feed | 240 | 660 | 120 | 300 @ y 840 | TikTok file, 2025 |
| TikTok, 4 lines | 252 | 860 | 120 | 240 @ y 360 | TikTok file, 2021 |
| TikTok, TopView | 240 | 240 | 120 | · | TikTok file, 2025 |
| Reels / Stories | 269 | 672 | 65 | 227 @ y 1152 | Meta text |
| Reels, disclaimer | 269 | 768 | 65 | · | Meta text |
| Shorts | 288 | 672 | 48 / 192 | · | Google file |
TikTok's file draws two kinds of unsafe area. The red zone may be blocked by interface elements. The blue zone, the 120 px at each side, may be cropped depending on the device, because many phones are taller and narrower than 9:16.
In practice, keep text, logos and faces out of both. If something has to sit near an edge, the blue band is the lesser risk: it is often still visible, while the red zone sits under the interface whenever the interface is shown.
TikTok's help text says it plainly: the longer the caption, the smaller the safe zone. A short caption takes one or two lines over the bottom of the video; a long one can take up to four lines, the most TikTok displays.
The current file has a single size. TikTok's 2021 files were drawn for each caption length, with a bottom margin of 704 px for one line, 756 px for two, 808 px for three and 860 px for four. They also keep 252 px at the top and run a 240 px buttons column from y 360. If you write long captions, check your video against the four line version.
Search online and you will find bottom margins anywhere from about 235 to 864 px. We measured 19 tools and templates in October 2026: most never say where their numbers come from, several draw something different from what they state, and many leave less room at the bottom than TikTok's own file.
Some of the confusion has simple causes. Numbers like 160, 440 and 80 are the same file measured on a 720 × 1280 frame. Values such as 252 at the top and a buttons column from y 360 come from TikTok's older 2021 files. And some guides measured the TikTok website instead of the app, which has a different layout.
A safe zone overlay works in any editor that supports transparent PNG files. Put it above everything else, place your captions and logos where the overlay is clear, then hide or delete the overlay before you export, so it does not end up in your video.
The zone in these files is published for ads, and TikTok has no separate file for regular posts. Its Creator Academy only asks creators to keep everything inside the safe zone and away from the buttons, so the ad file is the best guide for both. For the first 3 seconds of a TopView ad, the file keeps only 240 px at the top and at the bottom and 120 px at the sides, with no buttons column.
Reels and Shorts cover the frame in other places. Meta asks for 14% at the top, 35% at the bottom and 6% at the sides; Google's vertical template keeps 288 px at the top, 672 px at the bottom, 48 px on the left and 192 px on the right. Switch platforms in the checker to compare, or use the all platforms view.
Anyone who puts text, logos or faces on a vertical video before it goes to TikTok.
Make a 9:16 clip with an AI video generator, then check that the captions you add afterwards stay clear of the TikTok buttons and caption area.
Mark the face and check it sits in the TikTok safe area, away from the buttons column and the account name.
Keep a safe zone template on the top track of every vertical project in CapCut, Premiere or DaVinci.
Check one master video for TikTok, Reels and Shorts at once before it goes out on three channels.
Use the same zone TikTok publishes for In-Feed ads, plus the TopView opening for the first 3 seconds.
Plan titles and logos on the frame first, mark them, and hand over a layout that already clears the TikTok interface.
Short answers about the numbers, the captions and the templates.
Create a 9:16 clip with Text to Video, add your captions, and come back to check them against the TikTok safe zone before you post.
