TikTok story size
1080 × 1920px
Aspect ratio
9:16
TikTok Stories are 1080 × 1920 px (9:16) — the standard full-screen vertical canvas, visible for 24 hours.
Last verified June 2026
TikTok Stories use the same full-screen vertical canvas as everything else on the platform: 1080 × 1920 px at 9:16, for both photos and short video clips. They disappear after 24 hours and surface through a blue ring on your profile picture, in followers’ feeds, and on your profile. Because they share dimensions with regular TikTok video — and with Instagram Stories — there is no special export to learn; the difference is entirely strategic: Stories are the low-stakes, high-frequency layer of a TikTok presence.
| Variant | Dimensions | Ratio |
|---|---|---|
| Story (photo or video) | 1080 × 1920 px | 9:16 |
| Non-vertical uploads | anyDisplayed with fill bars — fine for casual moments, weak for designed frames. | varies |
| Lifespan | 24 hours | — |
Stories carry the same interface furniture as regular TikToks — username and caption bottom-left, reaction and share controls on the right, progress indicator up top — plus a quick-reply bar along the bottom. Keep text and stickers inside the central area of the canvas, clear of roughly the bottom 480 px and the right 140 px. If you reuse an Instagram Story export, double-check the bottom third: TikTok’s reply bar sits higher than Instagram’s.
Stories suit the content that does not justify a feed slot: behind-the-scenes moments, quick polls of your audience, teasers for an upcoming video, or a repost of a comment worth answering. Posting Stories between main uploads keeps the blue profile ring active, which quietly drives profile visits from people who saw one of your videos.
A Story is gone in 24 hours — it does not deserve the production budget of a feed video. Phone-shot, lightly captioned, in-the-moment frames consistently feel more native here than polished graphics. Save the designed 9:16 assets for photo posts and video covers, where they live permanently on your grid.
The strongest recurring Story play is the teaser: a 3-second clip or single frame from your next video with “new video up tonight” and nothing else. It converts your most loyal viewers into first-hour engagement on the main post — which is exactly the signal TikTok’s ranking responds to.
1080 × 1920 px at 9:16 — identical to regular TikTok video, Instagram Stories, and YouTube Shorts. One vertical template covers all of them.
24 hours, after which they disappear from your profile and feeds. TikTok has no Highlights-style mechanism to keep them, so anything worth preserving should be posted as a regular video or photo post instead.
Yes — the canvas is the same 1080 × 1920. Strip any Instagram-branded stickers or watermarks first, and re-check the bottom third of the frame, since TikTok’s reply bar and caption sit differently than Instagram’s overlay.
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