# Keep text inside the safe zones

Each app stacks its own buttons over your clip. Safe zones show you where they land so your text stays clear.

When you post a clip, TikTok, Reels, and Shorts each stack their own buttons over
it: the like, comment, and share icons down the side, and a caption bar along the
bottom. If your captions or text sit in those spots, they get covered up. Safe
zones show you where to keep clear.

## Steps

### 1. Turn on Safe zones

Open the clip and tap **Safe zones** on the row of controls down the side.

### 2. See where the app buttons land

A guide appears over the preview showing where each app puts its buttons and its
caption bar. Tap the control again to cycle through the views: a realistic app
preview, then both together, then simple shaded blocks. One more tap turns it off.

![The clip preview with the app buttons and caption bar shown over it, so you can see what your text needs to stay clear of.](/help/safe-zones/01-safe-zones.png)

### 3. Move your text into the clear

Nudge your captions, hook, and title into the open middle of the frame, away from
those spots, so nothing important gets hidden once you post. To move the captions,
see [Change your caption style](/help/add-captions-to-a-clip).

## Good to know

Safe zones are only a guide to help you place things. They are never part of the
finished clip, so no one who watches your clip will see them. The guide shows on
tall clips.

## What's next

- What every side control does: [The quick edit rail](/help/quick-edit-rail).
- Move your captions: [Change your caption style](/help/add-captions-to-a-clip).