What size is an Instagram story?

1080×1920 pixels — a 9:16 vertical frame that fills the whole phone screen.

It matches the shape of a phone held upright, so the story fills the screen with no black bars.

Will a landscape photo work as a story?

A wide photo cropped to 9:16 loses a lot of its sides. For those, Contain (padded) keeps the whole image, or start from a vertical shot.

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Fit

Fills the frame, crops the overflow.

Instagram and TikTok stories fill the whole screen in a tall 9:16 frame — 1080×1920. Sizing your image to match means it fills the screen edge to edge with no awkward bars or auto-zoom, and your faces and text don't get cropped by the app.

One size for every vertical platform

The 9:16 frame isn't just Instagram — it's the shared shape of full-screen vertical video across the board. A single 1080×1920 export drops cleanly into all of them:

Instagram and Facebook stories.
TikTok and Reels.
YouTube Shorts.
Snapchat and other full-screen vertical content.

Keep the edges clear

Apps overlay your name at the top and the caption and buttons at the bottom. Keep important content away from roughly the top and bottom 250 pixels so nothing gets covered.

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Frequently asked questions

What size is an Instagram story?: 1080×1920 pixels — a 9:16 vertical frame that fills the whole phone screen.
Why 9:16?: It matches the shape of a phone held upright, so the story fills the screen with no black bars.
Will a landscape photo work as a story?: A wide photo cropped to 9:16 loses a lot of its sides. For those, Contain (padded) keeps the whole image, or start from a vertical shot.