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Instagram carousels
Instagram carousel posts explained: sizes, slide counts, structures that keep people swiping, captions and how to reuse TikTok slideshows.
Start hereHow to make an Instagram carousel: limits, size and structureAn Instagram carousel is one post of up to 20 photos and videos that people swipe through. Photos can be any ratio from 1.91:1 to 3:4, and a post can carry up to five hashtags. Build it from a cover that works alone, slides that each do one job, and a final slide with a single ask.Guides
- Instagram carousel caption: structure, templates and the hashtag limitWrite an Instagram carousel caption: the five-hashtag limit and 2,200-character figure with sources, five templates by goal and what stays on the slides.
- Instagram carousel safe zone: where the profile grid crops your first slideWe found no Instagram carousel safe zone, but its profile grid reportedly uses a 3:4 tile. See what that trims per ratio, with a diagram and a text rule.
- How many slides can an Instagram carousel have? (and how many to use)Instagram allows up to 20 photos and videos per carousel as of November 2026. See the source, why 10 still circulates and a slide-count planner by content type.
- Add music to an Instagram carousel: when it works and when it does notInstagram allows music on multi-photo posts from a phone, not on carousels with video. See what is documented, why the option vanishes and how to pick songs.
- Instagram carousel size: 4:5 or 3:4 (1080x1350 vs 1080x1440)Choose between 1080x1350 (4:5) and 1080x1440 (3:4) for Instagram carousels. Official ratio range, what the profile grid crops, and one rule per use case.
- How to turn a TikTok slideshow into an Instagram carouselWhat to change when you move a 9:16 TikTok slideshow to Instagram: crop math, text position, caption, hashtags and music, with a ten-step conversion checklist.