tiktok Safe Zone Guide

Optimize your vertical video content to prevent critical information from being hidden by UI overlays.

Safe Zone Previewer

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Danger-zone shading

Choose how strongly risk areas are highlighted in the analysis preview.

Platforms keep the full 9:16 image but may place buttons, captions, and controls over these regions. The default is 60%. This choice affects only the analysis preview and never changes the clean export.

Show Center Grid & Safe Outline

Clean 9:16 is ready for publishing and contains no overlay. Analysis Preview is a reference copy containing the danger-zone shading, center grid, and cyan safe-zone outline. Both files are created locally; your image is never uploaded.

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Physics of TikTok Overlays

Digital platforms like TikTok use a concept similar to legacy TV overscan. Instead of electron beams, they use fixed UI elements (like buttons, descriptions, and avatars) that float over your video.

Top margin: 10% reserved for system status and search bars.
Bottom margin: 10% reserved for captions and video timeline.
Right margin: 5% reserved for engagement buttons (Like, Comment, Share).