TikTok video size
1080 × 1920px
Aspect ratio
9:16
TikTok videos are 1080 × 1920 px (9:16) — full-screen vertical, with the caption stack and action rail overlaying your footage.
Last verified June 2026
TikTok is a single-canvas platform: everything is built for the full phone screen, which means 1080 × 1920 px at 9:16. You can upload landscape or square video, but TikTok pillarboxes it inside the vertical player and it reads as an afterthought. The real work is not the export size — it is keeping your hook, captions, and subject clear of TikTok’s unusually heavy interface overlay, which claims the bottom third and the right edge of every video.
| Variant | Dimensions | Ratio |
|---|---|---|
| Video (recommended) | 1080 × 1920 px | 9:16 |
| Minimum resolution | 540 × 960 pxTikTok’s stated floor for ads; organic video looks soft below 720p. | 9:16 |
| Landscape upload | 1920 × 1080 pxAccepted but pillarboxed inside the vertical player. | 16:9 |
| Square upload | 1080 × 1080 pxAccepted, padded above and below. | 1:1 |
| Cover (profile grid) | 1080 × 1920 pxGrid tiles crop toward the center — keep cover titles mid-frame. | 9:16 |
TikTok overlays more UI than any other vertical platform: your username, caption, and audio attribution stack up from the bottom-left, the like/comment/share/profile rail runs down the right edge, and the Following/For You tabs sit at the top. TikTok’s own ad guidelines suggest keeping critical content roughly 130 px from the top, 480 px from the bottom, 44 px from the left, and 140 px from the right of the 1080 × 1920 canvas — a good rule for organic video too. In practice: subject and burned-in captions live in the center of the frame, biased slightly upward.
TikTok compresses aggressively, and a low-bitrate source comes out mushy. Export a clean 1080 × 1920 master at a high bitrate, enable the high-quality upload toggle, and avoid re-exporting a file that has already been through another app’s compressor. The same master works for Reels and Shorts, which is the cheapest cross-posting win in social media.
The single most common TikTok design mistake is hard-coded subtitles sitting exactly where TikTok draws your username and caption. Place burned-in text in the upper-middle of the frame, or use TikTok’s native auto-captions, which position themselves inside the safe area automatically and are searchable.
Your profile grid is a browsing surface — people who liked one video scroll your profile to find more — and grid tiles crop toward the center of the cover. Pick or upload a cover frame with a short, centered title so your profile reads like a menu. A consistent cover template turns casual viewers into binge-watchers.
1080 × 1920 px at 9:16 — full-screen vertical. That is the same canvas as Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, so one clean vertical master can serve all three platforms.
Yes — TikTok accepts 16:9 and square uploads, but they play pillarboxed inside the vertical player with large empty bars. For talking-head or screen-recorded content, reframing to 9:16 almost always performs better.
Up to 10 minutes recorded in the app, and TikTok has been rolling out pre-recorded uploads of up to 60 minutes to many accounts. Engagement still favors much shorter videos, so use length only when the content earns it.
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