Your cover is the still image that represents your video on your profile grid — and it gets cropped twice, differently, so keep the key content centered.
TikTok's video cover appears in two different crops — the full 9:16 frame before a video plays, and a tighter, roughly-square crop on your profile grid. Text or logos placed near the top or bottom edge often get cut off in the grid view even though they looked fine full-size, so keeping everything important vertically centered matters more here than on most cover formats.
Open Squeezr and drop in your cover image or a still frame from your video.
Turn on Resize, unlock the aspect-ratio lock, and set width and height to 1080 × 1920.
Choose Crop mode if your source image isn't already 9:16.
Keep any text or logo in the vertical center — avoid the top 15% and bottom 20%, which get cropped or covered by TikTok's UI on the grid view.
Export as JPG at 85% quality and set it as your cover when uploading the video.
Skip the manual math — open Squeezr with this preset already dialed in.
Open Squeezr preset to 1080×1920 →TikTok's profile grid uses a compact, roughly-square tile to show many videos at once, which means the tall 9:16 cover gets center-cropped — TikTok hides roughly the top 15% and bottom 20% of the image in that view specifically. The full 9:16 cover is only shown uncropped right before a video plays.
A profile grid with matching cover fonts, colors and layout across videos reads as more professional and encourages profile visits to turn into follows. Once you've settled on a cover template, resizing each new one through the same Squeezr preset keeps that consistency effortless.