Telegram Safe Zone Guide

Visualise Telegram's UI overlay safe zones before export.

Overlay simulator showing where Telegram places UI elements — progress bar, caption, action buttons, and profile chip — on stories and video, so you can confirm your key content falls outside the dead zones before exporting.

What is a Telegram story safe zone?

The safe zone is the central region of a 1080×1920 story that Telegram never covers with its own interface. The top holds the progress bar and profile chip, and the bottom holds the caption and action buttons, so keeping key content in the middle avoids it being obscured.

Telegram overlays its own interface on top of full-screen stories and video — progress bar and profile at the top, caption and action buttons at the bottom. This simulator shows those zones so you can keep faces, text, and your call to action where they stay visible.

How it works

Telegram renders stories and full-screen video on a 1080×1920 canvas and reserves the top and bottom strips for its UI. The simulator draws that canvas to scale, shades the reserved top and bottom regions using conservative pixel margins, and outlines the clear central safe zone in between. Anything you want guaranteed visible — headline text, logo, subject’s face, CTA — should sit inside the outlined area. The percentages shown are derived from the pixel margins so they hold whatever resolution you export at.

Tips and notes

Reserve roughly the top 250 px for the progress bar and profile chip and the bottom 320 px for the caption and reply/forward/share controls on a 1920 px-tall story. Because the overlay shifts by device, app version, and notch size, leave a little clearance beyond the shaded bands rather than butting content right up to the line. The same zones apply to video stories, so position any burned-in text or logos in your footage the same way.