LinkedIn Banner Cut Off on Mobile? Here's Why and the Fix

You open your profile on your phone and the banner you spent an afternoon on is half gone: the logo sits under your face, the tagline is unreadable, and the top line hides behind the clock. On your laptop it looks fine. Nothing is wrong with the file. LinkedIn renders the same 1584 × 396 image very differently on a phone, and the fix is about where things sit, not how big the file is.

The short answer

Three things happen on mobile at once. The banner shrinks to roughly a quarter of your canvas width, the profile photo covers a bigger share of what is left, and in the app the phone's own status bar sits over the top. Move your message right and toward the middle band and most banners recover.

Cause 1: the banner is four times smaller

On a 1440p desktop LinkedIn displays your banner near 792px wide, about half of what you uploaded. On a phone it renders at the width of the screen, around 400 points. Type that was 24px tall in your design file ends up close to 6px on a phone. That is the most common reason a banner reads fine in Figma or Canva and is a smudge in the app.

The fix is simple and unglamorous: fewer words, bigger type. Keep the smallest text on the canvas at about 40px, which lands near 10px on a phone. If a line will not fit at that size, it does not belong on the banner.

Cause 2: the profile photo takes a bigger bite

The round avatar overlaps the lower left of the banner on every surface. We model it as the leftmost 20 to 25% of the width, anchored to the bottom edge and reaching about halfway up. On desktop that corner looks small. On a phone the avatar is at its largest relative size, and your name and headline crowd up against the bottom edge underneath it.

Anything in the left quarter or the bottom third will be covered for somebody. Logos and calls to action placed there are the usual casualties.

Cause 3: the status bar and the Dynamic Island

When someone views your profile inside the LinkedIn app, the top strip of the banner sits behind the phone's status bar: the time, signal and battery. On iPhone Pro models the Dynamic Island cutout covers the top centre as well. We treat the top third of the banner as unsafe on the affected phones.

The fix: the safe band

Stack the three zones and the region that survives an iPhone 16 Pro, an iPhone SE, and 1080p and 1440p desktops at once is narrower than you would like:

• Horizontally: from about x = 400px to the right edge.
• Vertically: between y = 130px and y = 260px.

Right-aligning the message is the highest-leverage change. It moves text away from the avatar instead of fighting it, and it reads naturally next to a photo anchored on the left. Use the left side for texture, colour or a photo that can lose its corner without losing its meaning.

A five-minute repair for an existing banner

• Open the source file at 1584 × 396 (not a rounded 1600 × 400).
• Move every word and logo into the safe band above.
• Delete anything that drops below 40px tall.
• Export as PNG for flat colour and type, JPG for photos, under 8MB.
• Preview it on a phone frame before you upload, not after your network has seen it.

Check it before you publish

The free header checker renders your banner on LinkedIn's phone, tablet and desktop profiles in your browser and marks what the avatar, status bar and Dynamic Island cover. For the full spec, see the LinkedIn banner size guide; for a Page rather than a profile, the company page cover guide. If the problem shows up on other platforms too, read why your header looks different on your phone, or compare every size in the header size directory.