Lock the 9:16 vertical frame WhatsApp Status uses — and Stories everywhere else — with safe zones for the top/bottom UI.
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Drag a vertical photo or screenshot onto the page. The cleaner the source, the better the Status looks before WhatsApp re-encodes it.
The crop box is pre-set to vertical 9:16. Resize and reposition freely — the ratio stays locked at the WhatsApp Status standard.
Leave ~250 px at the top for the timestamp and sender avatar, and ~250 px at the bottom for the caption input and reactions. Keep subjects centered.
Export as JPG for photos or PNG for sharp text. Stay under WhatsApp's ~16 MB upload cap (a 1080×1920 JPG is usually well under 500 KB).
WhatsApp Status uses the same format as Stories on Instagram or Snapchat: a 9:16 vertical frame, with 1080×1920 as the practical default. WhatsApp accepts other sizes but letterboxes anything that isn't 9:16.
Reserve roughly the top 250 px for the timestamp, sender name, and avatar, and the bottom 250 px for the caption field and reply input. Keep faces, text, and key visuals in the middle 1400 px vertical band.
Status videos are capped at 30 seconds per clip (longer videos are split automatically). Both images and video frames use 1080×1920 / 9:16, so a cover image cropped here works as a clean still or as a thumbnail before a video clip.
WhatsApp on iPad and Android tablets letterboxes vertical Status posts — adding black bars on the sides — but it does not crop the image itself. A 1080×1920 source displays fully on both phones and tablets, just framed by black on wider screens.
WhatsApp caps Status media at roughly 16 MB per item. A 1080×1920 JPG typically lands under 500 KB and a PNG under 3 MB, so file size is almost never the bottleneck — quality and the safe-zone framing are.