How to check your TikTok safe zone
- Add your picture or video. Pick it, drop it or paste it. It’s read on your device and never uploaded. No file yet? Try a sample.
- Pick the format. The phone shows your post exactly where TikTok shows it, under TikTok’s own buttons, name and caption.
- Look at the red stripes. Everything outside the dashed box can be covered. Hide the buttons to see your whole frame, or name each area.
- Download the overlay. A transparent PNG at the real size, to put on top of your design in Canva, Premiere, CapCut or Figma. The template version names each area.
The safe area here is the same one aiCarousels uses for its own layouts, so a carousel made in the app keeps its text inside it on every slide.
The TikTok safe zone in pixels (2026)
| Area | On 1080 × 1920 |
|---|---|
| Top | Keep 154 px clear (Following · For You) |
| Bottom | Keep 422 px clear (name, caption, sound) |
| Right | Keep 173 px clear (profile, like, comment, save, share) |
| Left | Keep 65 px clear |
The same safe zone applies to photo carousels: TikTok draws the same buttons and caption over every photo.
The safe zone template (PNG)
Download the transparent overlay (striped where TikTok covers your video, dashed around the safe area), the named template, or your own frame with the safe zone on it. All at 1080 × 1920.
Tips for TikTok videos and photo carousels
- Captions on screen go in the middle third. Too low and TikTok’s caption covers them; too far right and the buttons do.
- Keep the cover title in the centre. Your profile grid shows only the middle of each cover.
- Leave the bottom right for nothing important. It’s where the most buttons and text overlap.
Free, and what the app adds
The checker and templates are free. aiCarousels makes TikTok photo carousels in 9:16 with every slide’s text already inside the safe zone.
