A vertical story, 1080 wide and 1920 tall
The phone frame, nine by sixteen
1080 by 1920 is a 9:16 still. It is the shape of a story and of a vertical video cover. In the social presets, Facebook’s story, Instagram’s story, and TikTok’s video frame all use this pair. A square feed post does not. If you hand a grid a file this tall, the app will crop it back toward a square or a 4:5 and your careful top and bottom will vanish. Use this page when the next tap is a story, a reel cover, or a vertical video poster.
Leave room for the interface
Stories cover the top with a name and the bottom with a reply field or a caption. Keep the face, the product, and any words in the middle band. Type 1080 for the width and 1920 for the height, then look at the preview and imagine a finger over the lower fifth. A landscape photo forced into this frame without a crop will stretch people into towers. Crop to the tall shape first when the person should still look like themselves.
One still, on this device
The resizer loads the first file you add. JPG, PNG, WebP, and GIF are fine. Each side stops at 10000 pixels, and 1920 is inside that ceiling. A 12 megapixel portrait usually shrinks into this frame cleanly. A tiny sticker enlarged to 1920 tall will look soft, because enlargement does not invent detail. Export from a master that is already tall enough. The drawing stays on this device, and you upload the download in the app yourself.
JPEG, WebP, and PNG after the frame is tall
A kilobyte target is for JPEG and WebP. Leave it empty and those formats save at quality 0.92. PNG ignores the kilobyte target, which is useful for a flat title card and less useful for a photograph the app will recompress anyway. If the story file is heavy before you even upload, pass the JPEG through the image compressor. Do not shorten the height to save bytes. The height is the point of this page.