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Platform guides for the file you are about to upload: every platform resizes, crops or re-compresses what it receives, or rejects it outright. Pick where your file is going, open it here, and the bench prepares it to that platform's published limits in your browser. It shows exactly what changed. Limits change without notice, so each one links to the platform's own page.

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photo_cameraprepare a photoInstagram

Instagram keeps a feed photo at up to 1080 px wide if its shape is between 1.91:1 and 3:4. Anything wider or taller gets cropped, and anything larger gets scaled down by Instagram’s own encoder. Since 2025 the profile grid shows every post as a 3:4 tile, so keep faces and text inside that frame.

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3:4 tall1080×14404:5 portrait1080×13501:1 square1080×10801.91:1 wide1080×5669:16 story1080×1920
crop position (left → right)50%
size budget KB
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output, … · dashed box = 3:4 grid tile
Everything outside the dashed frame is hidden in your profile grid. Move the crop position to keep the subject in it.

What Instagram publishes, and what it means

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Width keptup to 1080 pxNarrower photos (320-1080 px) are kept at their own size; wider ones are scaled down to 1080.
Shapes kept1.91:1 to 3:4Outside this range the photo is cropped to fit.
Profile grid3:4 tiles (2025)Square and 4:5 posts are trimmed at the sides or top in the grid view.
Stories and Reels1080 × 1920 (9:16)Full-screen vertical; the grid shows the middle 3:4 of a Reel cover.
File typeJPEG or PNGRe-encoded as JPEG by Instagram either way; sRGB avoids colour shifts.
Checked October 2026. Platforms change limits without notice; the linked page is the authority.

Every platform, one line each

photo_cameraInstagram
Feed photos up to 1080 px wide, shapes 1.91:1 to 3:4, grid tiles 3:4.4032×3024 → 1080×1440
music_noteTikTok
9:16 at 1080 × 1920, buttons over the right edge, 4,000-character captions.1920 × 1080 shot → 1080 × 1920 crop
tagX (Twitter)
Photos up to 5 MB; single images previewed at about 16:9; headers 3:1.6.8 MB PNG → 1.1 MB JPEG
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smart_displayYouTube
2 MB 1280 × 720 thumbnails, 8 Mbit/s for 1080p30 uploads, chapters from the description.4032 × 3024 photo → 1280 × 720 JPG under 2 MB
workLinkedIn
1584 × 396 banners under the photo, 3,000-character posts, 100 MB document posts.3000 × 2000 photo → 1584 × 396 banner
chatWhatsApp
2 GB per file in chats; gallery videos re-encoded; 16 MB for business messages.48 MB clip → 15.6 MB at 1.9 Mbit/s
mailEmail
Gmail and Yahoo 25 MB, Outlook.com and iCloud 20 MB, plus 37% base64 overhead.22 MB PDF → bounces on Outlook.com
languageWordPress
Uploads over 2,560 px are scaled; WebP since 5.8; share images 1200×630.5.2 MB JPEG → 180 KB WebP
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