Social media safe zones
Short answer
Where text and faces are safe from buttons and interface overlays.
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Safe zone templates for TikTok, Reels and Shorts
Free transparent 1080x1920 safe zone PNG overlays for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, with the official margins and steps for four editors.
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Social media safe zones, explained properly
Why your caption disappears behind the interface, how much of the frame each platform actually covers, and how to design around it.
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Captions cut off or hidden: find where they are lost
Captions are cut in three places: your export, the burned-in text box, or the player interface. Move text into the safe area and re-export from the original.
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Text covered by the player UI: use the safe zone
Text near the edges is covered, not cropped. Published safe-zone guidance from Meta, TikTok, Pinterest and LinkedIn, with the pixel margins each one gives.
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Instagram text cut off? Fix posts, Reels, Stories, captions
Why text gets cut off on Instagram posts, Reels, Stories and the 3:4 profile grid, with exact pixel margins for each format, plus the caption limit and fixes.