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Instagram Safe Zone Checker

See where Instagram's name, buttons and caption will sit on your Story or Reel before you post, and how your post is cropped in the profile grid.

How It Works

Check your safe zone in three steps

  1. Add your Story or Reel

    Choose a photo or video from your phone or computer. It stays on your device.

  2. See what's covered

    Switch between Story, Reel and profile grid to see the interface and the safe zone on top.

  3. Adjust and post

    Move text and faces into the safe zone in your editor, then post with confidence.

About

What is the Instagram safe zone?

Instagram draws its own interface over Stories and Reels: your name and the progress bar at the top, the reply bar at the bottom, and on Reels the like, comment and share buttons on the side plus the caption. Anything underneath is hard to see. The safe zone is the area that stays clear, roughly the middle of the 1080 × 1920 px frame. This checker shows it over your own photo or video.

Leave the edges free

On Stories keep the top 250 px and bottom 340 px free; on Reels also keep the right edge clear of the buttons.

Make text big enough

Text inside the safe zone still needs to be large enough to read on a small phone.

Check the grid too

Posts and Reel covers both appear as 3:4 tiles in your profile grid, so check the crop before posting.

Instagram Image SizesRead the guide

FAQ

Safe zone FAQ

Keep important text and faces away from about the top 250 px and the bottom 340 px of the 1080 × 1920 px frame, where your name and the reply bar appear.

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