Since January 2026 the profile grid crops every post to a 3:4 tile. Drop an image below to see exactly what survives, before your headline or logo gets cut off.
Instagram moved the profile grid from square tiles to 3:4 portrait tiles. Every post's grid thumbnail is now a centered 3:4 crop of the image, whatever ratio you posted. The post itself is untouched; only the grid preview is cropped.
A square (1:1) post keeps 75% of its width in the tile: anything within 12.5% of the left or right edge is cropped out of the grid. A 4:5 portrait post keeps about 94% of its width. A 3:4 post displays whole, and a 1.91:1 landscape post loses most of its width. Keep headlines, logos and faces inside the centered zone this checker outlines.
If you generate branded images in batch, checking each one by hand defeats the point. PlanBatch's templates keep text inside the grid-safe zone, and one CSV can become a month of posts that all survive the crop.
Templates with grid-safe layouts, filled from a spreadsheet, scheduled from one calendar.