Reference · Updated July 2026
TikTok video size limit
TikTok has three very different limits depending on where you upload from: about 72 MB in the Android app, about 288 MB in the iOS app, and around 10 GB from tiktok.com in a browser. Videos can be up to 60 minutes long, though that ceiling is still rolling out account by account. If the app rejects a video, uploading the same file from the website usually works.
TikTok upload limits at a glance
| What | Limit |
|---|---|
| File size | ~72 MB Android · ~288 MB iOS · ~10 GB web (unofficial) |
| Length | 60 min — Upload from tiktok.com to bypass the tight app limits. 60-minute uploads are still rolling out account by account. |
| The easy way round the app limits | Upload from tiktok.com in a browser: the same account, a far higher size limit, and no need to compress at all. |
None of these figures is officially published — they are the practical limits users hit, checked against TikTok's help pages and current builds. The Android figure is the one that bites: a minute of good-quality phone footage is often already over 72 MB.
Fit your video under the app limit
Drop the video below and pick a target — 50 MB clears the Android app's cap with room to spare, and the compressor spends the budget where it shows least. It runs on your own device, so nothing is uploaded until you post. Need to shorten the clip instead? The trimmer cuts to the exact second.
How much video fits in 50 MB?
Length decides the picture size: the same 50 MB is spread across every second. These rows are what this compressor actually produces from a typical phone recording — full HD, 30 frames a second, with sound — at a 50 MB target.
| Video length | What you get |
|---|---|
| 1 minute | Full HD at the original quality — nothing is lost |
| 5 minutes | About half of full HD each way — clear on any phone |
| 10 minutes | Reduced size — fine on a phone, soft on a laptop |
| 30 minutes | Small picture; watchable, blocky on a big screen |
TikTok recompresses every upload to its own settings, so there is no point compressing below what the app requires — pick the largest target that fits, keep the picture as good as it can be, and let TikTok do the rest.
App says the video is too large? Two fixes
First, try the website. Log in at tiktok.com, use the upload button, and the same video that the Android app refused will go through — the web limit is roughly a hundred times higher. Second, if you must post from the phone, compress to under the app's limit here; at 50 MB a minute of full-HD footage stays sharp.
Everything on this page runs locally in your browser — your video never leaves your device, and there is no account or watermark. Not sure a clip will fit at a decent quality? The bitrate calculator tells you the picture size a target supports for your video's exact length.