TikTok cover size and profile grid crop
The short answer
A TikTok video cover is a 1080 × 1920 frame, and your profile grid displays a taller-than-square 3:4 crop taken from its centre — checked 31 July 2026.
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A cover is a frame of the 1080 × 1920 video. TikTok crops it to a taller-than-square tile on the profile grid; the 3:4 crop used here is measured from the current app rather than published.
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1080 × 1920 · 9:16
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Why this asset is awkward
The cover has two audiences. Someone arriving from the feed sees the full vertical frame; someone browsing your profile sees a 3:4 tile cut from the middle of it. Design only for the first and your profile becomes a wall of cropped foreheads.
This page shows both simultaneously. Position your subject inside the grid crop, check that the full frame still reads, and export at full resolution. Everything happens locally.
It also matters more than it looks, because a profile grid is browsed as a block of nine or twelve tiles at once. Covers with the subject in a consistent position read as a deliberate channel; covers cropped at random read as a folder of clips. Setting the crop here rather than scrubbing the in-app timeline is the difference.
Exact specification
| Asset | Pixels | Ratio | Formats | File limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok video cover | 1080 × 1920 | 9:16 | png, jpeg | Not published |
This one page also answers: tiktok thumbnail size, tiktok cover photo dimensions, tiktok grid size. They describe the same asset, so they share a single URL rather than getting a thin page each.
What the overlays mean
The marked rectangle is the 3:4 region your profile grid takes from the centre of the cover. The strip at its lower-left is where the view count sits over the tile. Both are measured from the current app rather than published by TikTok.
- Profile grid crop (3:4)keep content here
- Your profile grid shows a 3:4 crop taken from the centre of the cover. Compose the subject inside this box or your grid tile will be a crop of a crop.
- View-count stripcovered
- The view count and any pinned label sit over the bottom-left of the grid tile.
Three things that go wrong
- 01
Put the face in the grid crop
The grid tile is what decides whether someone opens the video from your profile. The full frame is what they see after.
- 02
Text near the bottom is covered twice
In the feed it is behind the caption; in the grid it is behind the view count. The upper-middle is the only genuinely clear area.
- 03
Consistent covers make a profile look intentional
Same crop position, same treatment, same rough colour temperature. The grid is read as one image before any individual tile is.
Questions people actually ask
What size is a TikTok cover photo?
1080 × 1920, the same as the video, because the cover is a frame of it. What differs is that the profile grid crops it to roughly 3:4 from the centre.
Why does my TikTok cover look cropped on my profile?
Because the profile grid tile is taller than it is wide but not as tall as 9:16, so TikTok takes a centre slice. Position the subject inside the marked crop on this page and the grid tile will hold.
Can I upload a custom cover image?
TikTok lets you choose a frame from the video and add text to it in-app. Preparing the image here first — correctly cropped, with the subject in the grid area — gives you a much better starting point than scrubbing the timeline.
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