Layout overlays

Layout overlays drop your live picture into a realistic social-media frame, so you can see exactly how your edit will look once captions, buttons, and rails sit on top of it. Will the subject's face land behind the "Follow" button? Is the lower third clear of the caption? The overlays answer that before you export.

Overlays are portrait-only — rotate your iPhone upright to use them. They work both while streaming live and in Monitor a Clip.

Switching overlays on

Tap the screen to reveal the controls, then tap the Layout button (the grid icon) in the top bar. Pick a layout from the list. Tap Standard at any time to go back to a clean, full-screen picture.

The layouts

Standard

No overlay — your full picture, edge to edge, with pinch-zoom. This is the default.

TikTok, Reels, and Shorts

Mock-ups of the three big vertical platforms, each drawn with the real chrome: top bar, the right-hand action rail (avatar, like, comment, share), the scrubber, and the bottom tab bar, plus a sample creator caption.

Each platform offers three variants:

• LTR (the default) — the action rail on the right, the standard layout for most regions.
• RTL — the rail mirrored to the left, for right-to-left layouts.
• Both — both rails at once, so you can check that nothing important is hidden on either side.

When you pick TikTok, Reels, or Shorts you can also edit the caption — see Editing the caption below.

Universal Safe Zone

A single set of safe-margin guides that works for all the social platforms at once (and for both LTR and RTL). Instead of mimicking one app, it draws the boundaries every platform agrees on, so anything inside the guides is safe everywhere. Because it shows the whole frame (no cropping), the guides line up with your real frame edges.

Universal Safe Zone has two extra controls in the picker:

• Opacity — fade the guides up or down so they don't fight the picture.
• Colour — choose red, black, white, green, or blue so the guides stay visible over your footage.

Editing the caption

For TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, a pencil button appears in the top bar. Tap it to edit:

• the profile name,
• the caption text, and
• the profile photo (pick one from your library).

You can also edit the engagement counts (likes, comments, and so on) that sit under the rail icons. This lets you preview a realistic mock-up of your own post, not a generic placeholder.

Saving a framed still

The save button (the download icon) grabs the current frame. In Standard mode it saves the raw picture at full resolution; with a layout active it saves exactly what you see — your picture composited inside the overlay — straight to your Photos library.