TikTok safe zone dimensions, in pixels.

The TikTok safe zone is the part of a 1080×1920 video that TikTok's interface never covers. On organic posts the action bar takes the bottom 350 px and the buttons a rail from x 918; Spark Ads take the bottom 484 px, including the Shop Now button.

Anything inside it stays readable; anything outside plays under the username, the caption, the sound row or a button — and burned-in text can't be moved after export. TikTok doesn't publish one fixed set of pixels: its in-feed ads help says the safe area depends on the video's shape, the ad caption length and any add-ons. The numbers here are CapQA's measured masks for the default layout.

On a 1080×1920 frame, text clears both TikTok layouts between y 130 and y 1436 and left of x 918. Organic posts cover the bottom 350 px and a button rail from x 918; Spark Ads cover the bottom 484 px, the top 130 px and a rail from x 940.

Read the margins as a minimum. Product links, location tags and longer descriptions add rows above the username, so the organic bar grows past 350 px on some posts; the Spark Ads stack already allows for the profile row, the caption, the sound and the button.

Yes. A Spark Ad adds a taller bottom stack — 484 px instead of 350 — with a Shop Now or Learn More button at y 1436–1566, a Sponsored tag in the top-left and a right rail that starts higher, at y 538. Text that cleared an organic post can land under the button.

A caption where auto-caption tools usually drop one — the top of the bottom third, y 1382–1602 — loses 76% of its area on a Spark Ad and 18% on an organic post. Boosting doesn't re-edit the file, so lay out any post that might be promoted for the ad version from the start.

Put captions in the middle band, centred around y 1080 — CapQA burns them in a 328 px slot from y 916 to 1244, above every bottom stack. Keep logos top-left inside the safe zone, below y 260, and keep prices and promo codes out of the right rail.

• Captions

  Two short lines in the middle band. CapQA burns them in a 328 px slot from y 916 to 1244, centred on Y=1080 — 192 px above the Spark Ads stack — and wraps them short of the button rail for the placement you pick.

• Promo codes and prices

  The same band, left of x 918. The organic rail starts 22 px further in than the Spark Ads rail, so a line that clears one can still lose its last word to the other.

• Logos

  Top-left inside the safe zone, below the 130 px top band and clear of the Sponsored tag. CapQA's logo slot is 200×80 at x 114, y 284.

• Calls to action

  Say "tap the orange cart" and keep the matching line in the middle band. An arrow pointing at the button should end above y 1436.

All three apps share the 1080×1920 canvas, not the interface. Among the ad layouts, TikTok Spark Ads have the tallest bottom stack (484 px), Shorts reaches furthest in from the right (x 936) and from the top (234 px), and Reels is the most forgiving — though Meta advises keeping the bottom 35% clear.

Meta's own guidance for Reels ads is stricter than its interface: leave 14% at the top, 35% at the bottom and 6% on each side free of text — 269, 672 and 65 px on this frame. Captions in CapQA's slot end at y 1244, above Meta's line at y 1248. The Reels and Shorts guides cover each layout in full.

CapQA uses one box for every platform: 900×1400, centred on 1080×1920, with 90 px margins at the sides and 260 px at the top and bottom. Chrome still bites into its lower edge and right side on ads, so Studio anchors captions at Y=1080 instead of anywhere inside it.

On Spark Ads the stack starts at y 1436, 224 px above the box's bottom edge, and the button rail from x 940 cuts 50 px into its right side. The box is where text is allowed; the caption slot is where it is safe on every placement at once.