Instagram size guide

Instagram Story size: 1080 x 1920 pixels.

The Instagram Story size in 2026 is 1080 by 1920 pixels, a 9:16 portrait frame. Keep text and logos inside the central 952 by 1330 pixel safe zone; the platform's interface covers 250 px at the top and 340 px at the bottom and 64 px on the left and 64 px on the right. Upload JPG, PNG; up to 30 MB.

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Dimensions
1080 x 1920

pixels, width by height

Aspect ratio
9:16

Decimal 0.5625

Safe zone
952 x 1330

area free of interface

File
≤ 30 MB

JPG, PNG

Safe zone and crops

Drawn to scale from the numbers above. The PNG template has the same guides so you can design on top of it.

250 px covered by the interface340 px covered by the interface1080 x 1920
Shaded bands are covered by buttons, captions or the profile name. Keep text and logos inside the dashed 952 x 1330 area.

Source: Meta Ads Guide (Instagram Stories), checked 2026-09-11.

Also accepted: 9:16 ratios, minimum 500 px wide. Meta's Ads Guide recommends 1440 by 2560 and accepts widths from 500 pixels, both at 9:16.

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Fit
Format

Output size

1080 x 1920

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How Instagram handles the story size

A Story fills the phone screen at 9:16, and 1080 by 1920 pixels is the size that maps to it one to one. Meta's Ads Guide names 1440 by 2560 as the recommended resolution for Story creative, a 500 pixel minimum width, JPG or PNG under 30 MB and a 1 percent ratio tolerance. An image that is not 9:16 is not cropped; it is centred on a blurred or solid background, which shrinks it.

The safe zone is the whole difference between a Story and a feed post. Instagram's widely published text and logo guidance is to leave the top 250 pixels and the bottom 340 pixels of a 1080 by 1920 canvas clear, because the progress bar and account name sit at the top and the reply field sits at the bottom. Meta's Ads Guide asks for more on paid placements: roughly 14 percent at the top, 35 percent at the bottom and 6 percent at each side, which is about 269 and 672 pixels on the same canvas, because an ad adds a call to action button.

The usual mistake is posting a 1080 by 1350 feed image straight to a Story and letting Instagram scale it. Pinch it down into the middle band instead and put the headline above it.

Questions about Instagram story sizes

  • Keep text and logos out of the top 250 pixels and the bottom 340 pixels, and about 64 pixels in from each side. That leaves a working area of roughly 950 by 1330 pixels. Story ads need more room at the bottom because of the call to action button.

  • No, it shrinks it and fills the rest of the frame with a blurred or solid background. A 4:5 image ends up about 30 percent smaller than the screen. Rebuild on a 9:16 canvas if you want the design to reach the edges.

  • Yes. Phones with taller screens still render Stories at 9:16 and downscale to the display, and Instagram re-encodes whatever you send. Meta recommends 1440 by 2560 for a little more headroom against compression, but the visible result is close to identical.

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