Social media

What size is an Instagram story?

Short answer

Make Instagram stories 1080 × 1920 pixels, a 9:16 vertical that fills a phone screen. The app shows your profile name at the top and the reply bar at the bottom, so keep text, logos and faces 8% from the sides and 14% from the top and bottom. Cutlin's Generate for social media makes stories at exactly this size, with this safe area.

The size, and the margins that keep your words visible.

Why 9:16

Stories are watched full screen on a phone held upright. A 9:16 picture fills that screen edge to edge; a square or landscape picture leaves empty space around it.

The story safe area

Anything within 14% of the top or bottom can end up under the app's own name, progress bar and reply field. Keeping key content 8% in from the sides as well stops it from running into the edges of the screen.

Making stories in Cutlin

Ask for stories in your prompt - "4 stories announcing the sale" - and they appear as 9:16 items in a plan, each with a caption; for one story, choose Tall 9:16, tagged Instagram Story, in Configuration. Generate for social media brings any picture to exactly 1080 × 1920 with words inside the safe area. Add your brand's @username to keep them on-brand.