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Instagram story size: 1080 × 1920 px

Full-screen vertical, sized so Instagram's own interface does not cover the part that matters.

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Instagram story size at a glance

Why 1080 × 1920, and where the UI lands

A story fills the phone screen edge to edge, and modern phones are taller than 16:9 — so the image is scaled to the screen width and the extra height is cropped, or letterboxed with a blurred backdrop. 1080 × 1920 is the size Instagram publishes and the one that needs the least of that.

The number that actually decides whether a story works is not the canvas size but the safe area. Your profile picture, name and the close button sit across the top; the reply box, share and menu controls sit across the bottom. Roughly the top 250 and bottom 250 pixels of a 1920-pixel canvas are covered by chrome at some point, and on a taller phone the crop eats into them further. Design as though the usable frame is the middle 1080 × 1420.

Text is the thing that suffers. A caption placed 100 pixels from the bottom looks fine in your design tool and sits underneath the reply box on a real phone. If a story has a call to action, put it in the middle third, not the last sixth.

How to resize an image to 1080 × 1920

  1. Drop your image on the panel above — or paste it, or drop several at once to do a batch.
  2. The width and height are already set to 1080 × 1920, and the aspect lock is off so both numbers are honoured exactly.
  3. If your source is a different shape, crop it to 9:16 first — resizing a different ratio straight to these numbers stretches it.
  4. Pick an output format. JPEG for photographs, PNG for flat colour, text and anything needing transparency.
  5. Download. Nothing was uploaded at any point — the resize ran on your own machine, in this tab.

Questions

Why does my story look zoomed in?

Because the phone screen is taller than 9:16 and Instagram scales the image to fill the width, cropping the top and bottom. Keeping important content out of the outer 250 pixels is what prevents it.

Is a story the same size as a reel?

The canvas is — both are 1080 × 1920. What differs is what covers it: a reel carries a caption, a sound credit and a column of buttons up the right-hand side, so its usable middle is narrower.

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