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The app covers a fifth of your video.

On a 1080 × 1920 video, TikTok draws its buttons down the right edge and the caption along the bottom. Open a photo or a video frame, place your on-screen text, and see how much of it ends up under the app.

1 · PICTUREUse test frameShowing: test frame, 1920 × 1080
2 · ON-SCREEN TEXT
3 · TRY A SPOT
TopMiddleBottom
visibility_offHide app overlay
RESULT
0%of your text is covered. Nothing on the app sits on top of it.
Inside the safe areathe dashed box on the phoneyes
Text block2 lines at 88 px601 × 197
Covered areas
top tabs0-1080 × 0-220
button rail900-1080 × 600-1660
caption strip0-900 × 1500-1920
downloadSave 1080 × 1920 PNG

Three ways to turn a wide shot into 9:16, measured.

A landscape picture has to be cropped, padded or both before it fills a phone. Each version below is drawn from the same picture at 1080 × 1920, with how much of the original survives and how much of the screen it fills.

SOURCE SHAPE16:94:31:14:5
Crop to fillScales the picture until it covers the screen and cuts the sides. Nothing is padded, but the edges of the shot are gone.
picture kept32%
screen filled100%
downloadSave PNG
Fit with black barsKeeps the whole picture and fills the rest with black. On a phone this reads as a small video in the middle.
picture kept100%
screen filled32%
downloadSave PNG
Fit on a blurred copyKeeps the whole picture over an enlarged, blurred copy of itself. The common compromise for reposting landscape clips.
picture kept100%
screen with real picture32%
downloadSave PNG
CAPTION220 / 4,000
#woodworking · 12#diy · 4#standingdesk · 13#plywood · 8#homeoffice · 11#fyp · 4
IN THE FEED, 250 PX WIDE, BEFORE "MORE"Turned one sheet of plywood into a standing desk, full cutting list in… more

The caption takes 4,000 characters but shows two lines.

Over the video, the caption is cut after about two lines at the bottom-left, the same strip the safe-zone check above treats as covered. The page wraps your caption at that width and lists each hashtag with its length, so you can see which ones fit before the fold.

check_circleLength220 of 4,000 characters.
check_circleBefore the fold7 lines at feed width; the first 2 show over the video, the rest after "more".
errorHashtags6 hashtags, 0 visible before the fold. TikTok Ads allows up to 5 in ad captions; organic posts allow more, but they take caption space.

TikTok's upload limits

SHAPE9:16Vertical video fills the screen; 1080 × 1920 is the recommended size.
LENGTH, IN THE APPup to 10 minRecording in the app; uploads can be longer.
LENGTH, UPLOADEDup to 60 minFrom the TikTok Studio web uploader.
FILE SIZE, WEBup to 10 GBPer video in the web uploader.
FORMATSMP4, MOVWebM also accepted on web; H.264 + AAC is safest.
CAPTION4,000 charactersShown as about two lines over the video.
PHOTO POSTSup to 35 imagesShown as a swipeable carousel with music.
PROFILE PHOTO20 × 20 minimumShown as a circle; square images work best.