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    What size is a TikTok video cover?

    1080×1920 pixels, which is 9:16. TikTok is 9:16 like a story, so a cover image is 1080×1920. The cover is the still frame people see in a profile grid and in search, which makes it worth setting deliberately rather than accepting whichever frame the app picked.

    The thing that catches people out

    The profile grid crops covers to a portrait rectangle rather than the full 9:16, so the very top and bottom of your cover are not shown there. Anything that has to be read - a title, a face - belongs in the middle.

    What a TikTok video cover does to it afterwards

    1080x1920 is the video frame, and a cover image is a still pulled from or uploaded to that frame, so it has the same problem as an Instagram story: the edges belong to the interface. The username, caption and sound name occupy the bottom third on the left, and the like, comment and share column runs up the right side. A cover that is legible in the grid on a profile page is cropped much closer to square, so whatever identifies the video has to survive being trimmed to the middle.

    What the crop takes off

    The cover is a full-screen 9:16 frame, so a landscape photograph loses most of its width - roughly 58%, split between the two sides. Worth knowing before you crop: only the middle of this frame is reliably visible, because the caption, the username and the button column sit over the bottom and the right of it.

    Questions about a TikTok video cover

    Where does the interface cover the cover image?

    The bottom left third carries the username, the caption and the sound name, and the right edge carries the like, comment, share and profile column running most of the height. That leaves an upright band slightly left of centre as the only reliably visible area. It is the same shape problem as an Instagram story with the furniture in different places, which is why a design made for one usually needs moving for the other.

    Why does my cover look cropped on my profile?

    Because the profile grid does not use 9:16. It shows each video as a much closer to square tile, cropped from the middle of your cover, so anything near the top or bottom is gone. A cover that identifies the video has to work twice: once as a tall image in the feed and once as a squarish thumbnail in the grid. Keeping the subject centred is the only thing that satisfies both.

    Is the cover the same as the first frame?

    Not unless you let it be, and that is the point of setting one. TikTok takes a frame from the video if you do not choose, which is how covers end up being somebody mid-blink. A cover you upload replaces that, and it is also what appears in your profile grid - shown there as a much shorter rectangle rather than the full 9:16. So the top third of the cover does the work twice: it is the part of the grid thumbnail anybody actually sees.

    Other sizes

    Or any dimensions, or compress.