Instagram story size (1080 × 1920)
Your picture is cropped to exactly 1080 × 1920 for Instagram and Facebook stories, Reels covers and TikTok. Drag the frame to choose what stays in.
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Stories and Reels fill a phone screen at 9:16, which is 1080 × 1920 pixels. Landscape photos need cropping to fit; drag the frame to keep the subject in.
The crop box keeps the right shape while you drag, and the size and aspect ratio update live. Prefer the whole picture with bars instead of a crop? Choose “Pad” in the settings.
How to use it
- Add your image.
- Drag the frame to choose the part to keep.
- The 1080 × 1920 image is made automatically.
- Download and upload it.
Formats and limits
- Opens
- JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF (first frame), AVIF where your browser decodes it, BMP
- Saves
- JPEG, PNG, WebP
- Output is limited to 8192 px per side and about 16.7 megapixels, the most every major browser can draw reliably.
- Enlarging an image can’t add detail; it is off unless you turn it on.
Instagram story size (1080 × 1920) questions
Yes. They use the same 9:16 shape, 1080 × 1920.
Yes, about 250 pixels at the top and bottom are often covered by the app’s buttons and captions.