TikTok Safe Zone Checker

How to check your TikTok safe zone

1. Export your video or a still frame at 1080×1920 (9:16). Other sizes work, but the overlay assumes a vertical 9:16 frame.
2. Click Upload file and pick the video or image. It opens locally in your browser — nothing is sent to a server.
3. Leave the overlay on and look for faces, captions, logos, or calls to action sitting under the red TikTok UI regions.
4. Toggle the overlay off to see the clean frame, move anything that was covered into the middle band, then re-export and check again.

What is the TikTok safe zone?

The TikTok safe zone is the part of a 1080×1920 video that stays visible under the app's interface. Everything outside it sits underneath your username, caption, sound ticker, the like, comment, share and bookmark rail, or the Following / For You tabs at the top. TikTok's own creative guidance recommends leaving roughly 140px at the top, 200px on the right, and about 480px at the bottom of the frame clear of anything important.

Where should text go on a TikTok video?

Put hooks, subtitles, and on-screen text in the middle band of the frame, slightly left of center. That keeps them clear of the right rail and above the caption block. The bottom quarter is the most common mistake: it looks empty in your editor, but on a phone it is covered by your own caption, which grows longer as you write more.

• Hooks and titles: upper-middle of the frame, below the top tabs.
• Burned-in captions: around the vertical center, or just below it. Avoid the bottom 25%.
• Faces and products: center or center-left. The top right is fine, but the right edge from about a third of the way down is covered by buttons.
• Logos and handles: top-left, under the navigation, or skip them entirely — your username is already on screen.

Does the safe zone change for TikTok ads or photo carousels?

In-feed ads add a Sponsored label and a call-to-action button above the caption, which pushes the covered area higher. If a video might run as a Spark Ad, keep extra clearance at the bottom. Photo mode carousels show the same caption and rail, so the same rules apply to each image.

Safe zone margins compared: TikTok vs Reels vs Shorts

Approximate areas covered by each app's interface on a 1080×1920 frame, as used by the overlays in these checkers. Caption length, ads, and app updates shift them slightly, so leave a little extra room.

If you post one clip to all three, design for the strictest edges: TikTok's bottom and right rail, and the tallest top bar. Keeping text roughly between 15% and 70% of the frame height, away from the right edge, clears every app.