Instagram profile grid size

In early 2025 Instagram swapped the square tiles on profiles for taller 3:4 ones. Each tile is filled from the middle of the post: wider shapes lose their sides, taller ones lose their top and bottom, and nothing is squeezed out of shape. Only the grid is affected; the feed still shows the whole post.

Squares are where the change hurts most. Posts designed for the old grid now lose a quarter of their width in their tiles, which clips the ends of words and the edges of logos that used to fit.

Three tiles share each row, separated by thin lines, so a tile is a little under a third of the screen wide. On a phone 390 points across, that is about 129 points wide and 172 tall, drawn with roughly 390 × 520 physical pixels on a screen with three pixels per point. Your 1,080-pixel-wide post is shown at about a third of its real size.

Tip: Small icons sit in the top-right corner of some tiles: one marks a carousel, one a Reel, and a pin marks a pinned post. Keep that corner free of anything that has to be read.

You can change what a post’s tile shows without touching the post. Open the post from your profile, tap the three-dot menu at the top right, choose Adjust preview, drag the image inside the frame and tap the checkmark. Only the tile changes; the post looks the same in the feed and when someone opens it.

That makes it the quickest repair for old square posts and for 4:5 graphics with lettering near their edges. For a Reel, the tile is cut from the cover, so the most reliable fix is a cover designed with its title inside the middle 1080 × 1440 before you post.

Some accounts spread one picture across several tiles, a layout often called a puzzle grid. With 3:4 tiles, one row needs an image of 3240 × 1440 pixels cut into three 1080 × 1440 pieces; three rows need 3240 × 4320, cut into nine.

1. Post the pieces in reverse order, bottom-right first and top-left last, because each new post takes the first free tile at the top left.
2. Post them from the app. Scheduling tools stop at 4:5, and a 4:5 tile hides about 34 px at each side, so roughly 68 px of the picture vanish at every join.
3. Allow for pinned posts. Up to three can sit at the start of the grid; one or two push your rows out of line, while three fill the top row exactly.
4. Expect your next ordinary post to shift every tile along by one. Posting in threes keeps the rows lined up.
5. Make each piece make sense alone, since someone who meets one in their feed sees only that slice.

Instagram announced in mid-2025 that people would be able to rearrange the order of their grid; before that, pinning was the only way to move an older post up. If your account has that option, a piece that lands in the wrong place can be dragged back instead of deleted and posted again.

• Design feed posts at 1080 × 1440 when you post from the app, so the tile shows the whole image.
• Designing at 4:5 for a scheduler? Treat the outer 34 px at each side as invisible on the grid.
• On square graphics, keep everything that matters inside the middle 810 px of the width.
• Give each Reel a cover with its title between 240 and 1,680 px down, the part of the frame the tile keeps.
• Make the first slide of a carousel its cover, since no other slide reaches the grid.
• After posting, scan your profile and use Adjust preview on any tile that clips something.