Instagram Story Resizer

What matters

Instagram Story dimensions at a glance

Instagram Stories fill the entire phone screen in a 9:16 vertical format. The top ~250px and bottom ~200px are partially obscured by the username bar and reply input, so critical content should live in the middle.

Working at 1080×1920 matches the native screen canvas. Smaller uploads get scaled up and look blurry; wrong ratios create letterboxing or get center-cropped.

Off-ratio images get awkward bars or auto-zoom cropping. Text placed too high gets hidden behind the username, and text too low gets covered by the reply bar.

Best practices

Use the crop intentionally

• Keep important text and CTAs in the middle 70% of the canvas vertically.
• Use vertical imagery that feels native to phone viewing — horizontal photos feel cramped.
• Avoid fine details and small text that Instagram's compression will soften.