# YouTube Shorts safe zone checker and overlay

> See what YouTube Shorts covers on your vertical video. Check titles and buttons on your own frame and download a transparent 1080 × 1920 Shorts safe zone overlay.

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Last updated: 2026-10-27  
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Drop in a frame from your video and see which parts YouTube Shorts's buttons, caption and tabs will cover. Keep text, faces and calls to action inside the dashed box.

Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

## How to use it

1. **Add a frame.** Drop a screenshot or a video. For a video, drag the frame slider to the moment you want to check.
2. **Check the clear area.** YouTube Shorts's interface is drawn over your frame. Captions, faces, your logo and calls to action should sit inside the dashed box.
3. **Compare the other apps.** Turn on the other platforms to see them side by side. The numbers and the overlay then use the strictest edge of the apps you picked.
4. **Download the overlay.** Save shorts-safe-zone-1080x1920.png, a transparent PNG, and lay it over your timeline in any editor.

## What YouTube Shorts covers

Shorts draws the back, search and menu buttons along the top, the like, comment, share and remix column down the right, and the channel, title and sound along the bottom.

Anything underneath is hard to read and can't be tapped.

## YouTube Shorts safe zone on a 1080 × 1920 frame

YouTube doesn't publish safe zones for Shorts. These figures follow the common consensus, with the right edge widened where the buttons reach further in.

- Top: 288 px
- Bottom: 576 px
- Left: 65 px
- Right: 162 px
- Clear area: 853 × 1056 px

## Posting to other apps too

Shorts covers the most of the top of the three apps, so keep titles and faces a little lower than you would for TikTok.

If you post the same video everywhere, pick all three platforms above and design for the combined zone.

## Sources

- [Remotion: Social safe zones](https://www.remotion.dev/elements/overlays/social-safe-zones/)
- [Moda: Story safe zone checker](https://moda.app/tools/story-safe-zone-checker)
- [Billo: Meta ads safe zones](https://billo.app/blog/meta-ads-safe-zones)
- [Adnova: Meta ad safe zones guide](https://adnova.ai/blogs/meta-ad-safe-zones-guide)
- [Reap: Short-form video safe zones](https://reap.video/blog/short-form-video-safe-zones)
- [Adaptly: Social media safe zones](https://adaptlypost.com/blog/social-media-safe-zones-2026-complete-guide)

## Questions

### What is the YouTube Shorts safe zone?

On a 1080 × 1920 video, keep important content 288 px from the top, 576 px from the bottom, 65 px from the left and 162 px from the right. That leaves a clear area of 853 × 1056 px.

### Is there a YouTube Shorts safe zone template?

Yes. The download button saves shorts-safe-zone-1080x1920.png: the covered areas shaded and the clear area outlined on a transparent background. Put it on the top track of your editor and hide it before you export.

### Where should captions go on YouTube Shorts?

Keep the bottom of your captions at least 576 px above the bottom edge, and their sides 65 px from the left and 162 px from the right. Above that line, YouTube Shorts's caption and buttons won't cover them.

### What's the difference between a safe zone and a dead zone?

They're two sides of the same frame. The dead zone is the part the app covers, and the safe zone is what's left. A transparent overlay that marks both is also called a safe zone guide or template, which is what the download button saves.

### Is my file uploaded?

No. The file opens in your browser and isn't sent anywhere.