Safe Zone for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and Snapchat

Social Media Safe Zones in 2025

SafeZoneCheck is a web tool that helps you create perfect vertical ads for TikTok, Instagram Stories and Reels, YouTube Shorts, and Snapchat by ensuring your content stays within the safe zones. Avoid having key elements like text, logos, and CTAs obscured by platform interfaces, and maximize the effectiveness of your ads.

TikTok Content Safe Zone

TikTok Safe Zone

TikTok uses a 9:16 aspect ratio (1080x1920 px), making it crucial to place your content strategically. Focus on keeping essential visuals in the center, avoiding the top and bottom areas, where overlays, icons, and text may obstruct your content.


Top Margin: 131px (6.83%)

Bottom Margin: 367px (19.11%)

Left Margin: 120px (11.11%)

Right Margin: 120px (11.11%)


For best results, position important text, logos, and CTAs in the center area.


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Instagram Stories Safe Zone

Instagram Stories Safe Zone

When creating content for Instagram Stories, it's important to ensure that your key elements—like text, logos, and CTAs—are placed within the designated safe zones. This prevents your content from being covered by Instagram's UI elements.


Top Margin: 250px (13.02%)

Bottom Margin: 350px (18.23%)


For best engagement, keep crucial elements in the center 70% of the screen.


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Instagram Reels Safe Zone

Instagram Reels Safe Zone

Instagram Reels ads are full-screen, vertical videos that integrate into the Reels experience. To ensure your content remains visible and unobstructed by Instagram's interface, follow these safe zone recommendations.


Top Margin: 108px (5.63%)

Bottom Margin: 320px (16.67%)

Left Margin: 60px (5.56%)

Right Margin: 120px (11.11%)


For best results, keep key content within the central safe area.


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YouTube Shorts Safe Zone

YouTube Shorts Safe Zone

YouTube Shorts present unique challenges with a UI that can obscure parts of your video. Placing key text and graphics in the wrong areas can lead to reduced visibility.


Top Margin: 288px (15%)

Bottom Margin: 672px (35%)

Left Margin: 48px (4.44%)

Right Margin: 192px (17.78%)


For optimal clarity, keep your main content centered in the top 50% of the screen.


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Snapchat Safe Zone

Snapchat Safe Zone

Snapchat ads and stories often have overlays that can block key areas of your content. Placing important elements outside the safe zones can reduce visibility.


Top Margin: 99px (9.9%)

Bottom Margin: 337px (33.7%)

Left Margin: 54px (5%)

Right Margin: 120px (11.11%)


Keep your key visuals and text centered for maximum visibility.


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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What does the tool do?

Our tool helps you create perfectly optimized vertical ads by providing precise safe zone overlays for platforms like TikTok, Instagram Stories, Instagram Reels, Snapchat, and YouTube Shorts. It ensures that your essential content, such as text, logos, and CTAs, is not obscured by platform-specific UI elements.

How do I use the safe zone templates?

Using our tool is simple. Upload your video or image, and the tool will automatically apply the relevant safe zone template for your chosen platform. You can then export your content to ensure that all key elements are positioned within the safe zones, avoiding interference from platform UI components.

Why are safe zones important?

Safe zones are crucial because they help you avoid having important content covered by buttons, captions, or other interactive elements on social media platforms. By keeping your key visuals within these areas, you ensure that your ads are clear, effective, and able to engage your audience fully.

Which platforms are supported by the tool?

The tool currently supports TikTok Ads, Instagram Stories Ads, Instagram Reels Ads, Snapchat Ads, and YouTube Shorts. These are the most popular platforms for vertical video content, and our tool helps you optimize your ads for each of them.

Why are some of the safe zones so small?

We define the safe zones based on the largest possible UI elements that could appear on the screen, such as additional text, buttons, or interactive features. This ensures that even if the platform adds extra elements, your content remains visible and effective.

Do you plan to add support for other platforms?

We are constantly evaluating additional platforms to support. If you have specific platforms in mind or want to suggest a feature, feel free to reach out to us using the contact button at the bottom of the page.

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