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TikTok safe zone, checked on your own video
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Headline in the top bar, price and button at the very bottom: on Reels and TikTok the client never sees them.
Placement
TikTok · on a 1080×1920 frame
- Covered at the top
- 200 px
- Covered at the bottom
- 600 px
- Covered on the right
- 170 px
- Safe area
- 910 × 1120 px
Measured on real screenshots in September 2026. Platforms move their buttons; the numbers here are re-checked when they do.
Your creative
JPG, PNG, GIF or MP4. The file stays in your browser — nothing is uploaded, no account needed.
TikTok safe zones as a transparent 1080×1920 PNG, to drop into Photoshop, After Effects or Canva as a guide layer.
What is covered, in pixels
Measured on real screenshots in September 2026, in pixels of a 1080×1920 frame. The safe area is what is left once the app has drawn its own interface over your creative.
| Placement | Top | Bottom | Right | Safe area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok | 200 px | 600 px | 170 px | 910 × 1120 px |
The same zones as a transparent 1080×1920 PNG: use “Download the overlay” in the tool above, then drop the file over your artboard or comp as a guide layer.
What is specific to this placement
The caption block moves
The right column is busier than it looks
Everything added after the export also covers the frame
Design once for Reels, reuse on TikTok
Checking a whole campaign, with the client watching
The tool above checks one file at a time, on your machine. When the campaign has six creatives and a client who has to sign them off, upload them to BannerPeek: one link for the whole campaign, and every 9:16 file on that page carries the same placement switch and safe-zone toggle.
- HTML5 zips, images, GIFs and video on one page, at their real size
- The client switches placements and safe zones themselves — no account needed
- Comments pinned to the spot, and on video to the exact second of the animation
- Approval recorded with name and timestamp; new versions on the same link
Questions
What is the TikTok safe zone?
About the top 200 px, the bottom 600 px and the right 170 px of a 1080×1920 frame are covered by TikTok's own interface, leaving a safe area of roughly 910×1120 px. The numbers here were measured on a real TikTok screenshot rather than copied from a template.
What sits in those areas?
The top holds the For You / Following tabs and the search icon. The right holds the avatar, like, comment, save, share and the spinning audio disc. The bottom holds the account name, the caption, the translate line and the audio row — and the caption is the part that grows, because a long caption pushes further up the frame.
Are TikTok and YouTube Shorts the same?
Close enough to share one set of numbers: 200 px top, 600 px bottom, 170 px right. The interfaces look different but the covered areas land in the same places, so a creative that clears TikTok clears Shorts.
Does the caption length change the safe zone?
Yes, in practice. A short caption sits on one line; a long one wraps and pushes the text block higher into the frame. The 600 px figure is the common case — if you write long captions, keep the bottom of your creative empty a little further up.
What about text TikTok adds itself, like stickers or subtitles?
Anything added in the TikTok editor — auto captions, stickers, the CapCut watermark — lands on top of your creative as well and is not in these measurements. Export clean, add nothing at the edges, and leave the safe area to do the work.