Stay Ahead of Instagram's Latest Grid Update with Our Free Safe Zone Template

Instagram recently introduced a significant change to its profile grid format. The familiar 1:1 square preview has shifted to a 3:4 vertical aspect ratio, dramatically altering how content appears on your profile. This change brings exciting opportunities but also introduces new challenges for creators and businesses alike.

Our Free Instagram Grid Safe Zone Template is designed to help you adapt seamlessly to this new format, ensuring your content (reels, vertical carousels and vertical single posts ) looks perfect on your profile.

Why You Need This Template

With Instagram's new 3:4 grid format, key visual elements can get cropped or cut off if not positioned correctly. Our Safe Zone Template acts as a simple guide to help you:

✅ Keep your text and visuals fully visible on your profile grid
✅ Prevent awkward cropping of essential design elements
✅ Maintain a clean, professional aesthetic on your Instagram profile

New Safe Zone + Breathing Space

To ensure your content feels cohesive and balanced, we've incorporated an additional breathing space guideline. This ensures your designs have some margin to create a comfortable, less cluttered look.

🔹 Safe Zone: 32.5 pixels on each side — Critical for keeping key text, logos, or focal points visible
🔹 Comfortable Breathing Area: Height 250px | Width 150px — Ideal for ensuring designs feel spacious and well-framed

By utilizing this breathing space, you’ll maintain a polished, professional aesthetic that avoids cramped designs.

Key Features

🔹 Easy to Use: Simply download the PNG file and overlay it on your designs in any editing software (Photoshop, Canva, etc.)
🔹 Optimized for 3:4 Grid Format: The template highlights the visible "safe zones" to ensure key elements are never cut off
🔹 Perfect for Creators and Brands: Ideal for product showcases, tutorial designs, carousel covers, and more

How It Works

1. Download the templates for free.
2. Import the deisred template into your preferred design tool.
3. Overlay it on your design or thumbnail as a guide.
4. Adjust your text, logos, and visuals within the designated safe zones and breathing area.

With this simple yet powerful tool, you'll be able to create content that looks great on Instagram's updated grid layout.

4:5 Carousels and Single Posts

1. Import it to your editing software.

   

2. Move or adjust it to the frame [4:5 aspect ratio → for Instagram: w 1080px x h 1350px]

   

3. Create your design and adjust your elements.

   

4. Hide it / Remove it when you are done!

   

9:16 Reels

Wether you design the covers for your reels or wether you want to know what parts of the frame will be cropped in your Instagram grid you can:

1. Import the 9:16 template to your editing software in top of all the layers.

   

2. Adjust vertically up and down to see what parts will be displayed (RED parts will be cropped out, BLUE transparent boxes are for a comfortable breathing space — you can decide if you want to use it or not!)

   

Why Adapt Now?

Ignoring Instagram's new layout could mean losing valuable visual impact. With this free template, you can confidently design content that fits perfectly in the new grid format, ensuring your content stays polished and professional.

Get Your Free Safe Zone Template Now!

Click 👉 to download our free Safe Zone Template and future-proof your Instagram content. Don’t let the new update catch you off guard and start optimizing your posts today.

Ever Had Your Reel's Text Hidden Under Instagram's UI?

Your profile grid isn’t the only thing affected by Instagram’s layout changes. If you’ve ever had your text or important visuals covered by Instagram's UI elements on Reels, we’ve got you covered too.

Download our Free Safe Zone Template for Instagram Reels — designed to help you position text, captions, and key visuals to avoid being hidden or cropped. Stay confident that your content will look flawless both on the feed and on the reels feed.