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TikTok Shop product image requirements (2026)

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Short answer

TikTok Shop US listings take up to 9 square images, each at least 600 x 600 pixels. The main image shows the front of the product on a pure white background, and no image may carry added text, logos, borders or watermarks. Images must be in color and show only what the buyer receives. AI-generated images are allowed when they match the real product, under a policy page dated September 24, 2026.

TikTok Shop image specs

SettingRule
Images per listingUp to 9, all square. TikTok recommends at least 5.
Minimum size600 x 600 px
File types and sizeJPG, JPEG or PNG, up to 5 MB each (Product Media Center upload spec)
Main imageThe front of the product on a pure white background, shown plainly
Other imagesFront, back, sides and details, including accessories. Features, uses, variations, styled scenes, close-ups and size comparisons are allowed.
DuplicatesNo two images from the same angle
ColorColor images only, no black and white
VideoOne per listing, up to 5 MB
FoodShown with its packaging
Children’s swimwear and underwearFlat on a plain background, with no child models or mannequins
From TikTok Shop Academy’s US Product Listing Policy (September 1, 2026) and listing guide (August 10, 2026), checked September 24, 2026. The Media Center upload page accepts MP4 video up to 10 MB; the listing policy’s 5 MB limit is the stricter one.

These pages apply to TikTok Shop in the United States. For how to use the nine slots, see how many photos a listing should have.

What TikTok Shop bans in listing images

  • Added logos, text, borders, watermarks or graphics over the product or the background, in any image.
  • Marketing or promotion stickers, which can get a product rejected.
  • Placeholders and digital renderings of a product.
  • Mosaics or filters such as contrast or blur effects, which can hide brand names and logos.
  • Anything the buyer will not receive, including accessories that are not in the box.
  • QR codes, links or anything else that sends shoppers off TikTok Shop, references to TikTok without permission, and references to other marketplaces.
  • Subjective claims such as "Best Seller", and misleading before-and-after images.
  • Sexual content, negative body image themes, animal abuse, violence and hateful symbols.

For breaking these rules, TikTok can deduct points from your Account Health Rating, remove listings, revoke your selling access or refund buyers. TikTok also bans turning a listing into a different product by changing its title, images, brand or price, which would misrepresent the reviews and order history attached to it.

TikTok Shop’s AI image policy

A TikTok Shop US policy page dated September 24, 2026 covers AI-generated, rendered or edited images in product listings. It says its aim is to stop listings where the product shown does not match the product sold. AI images are allowed when they "accurately represent the real product", and must never change the product’s size, color, shape, features or performance.

RuleDo not use AI to
Keep the specs consistentchange the size, color, material or shape, or show features or performance the product lacks
No fake 3Dmake flat, printed, acrylic or sticker products look raised, layered, embossed or carved
No false scalemake an item look larger, taller, thicker or smaller than its stated size, or stage it next to people, furniture or walls in a way that misleads
Show the real productreplace the product with something else, such as real kittens in a cat toy listing
Keep counts trueshow more pieces than the buyer gets, show a bundle for items sold separately, or reuse one SKU’s image for another
Match the attributescontradict the listed material, volume, thickness, length or quantity, or show compatibility the product lacks
No fake effectsanimate a static product, or add glow, light or motion that suggests a function it does not have
Summarized from the TikTok Shop Academy US page. Fashion size cases follow separate category standards.

The listing policy also bans digital renderings of a product. TikTok’s separate AI content policy lists editing that improves quality, lighting, color, noise or the background as a permitted use, as long as product information is not altered. Read together, AI can clean up a real photo or place the real product in a scene, but it cannot invent how the product looks. Why AI changes your product covers the drift to check for, and how to show product size in photos covers scale.

Do you have to label AI images on TikTok Shop?

For posted content such as videos and LIVE streams, yes, when AI plays a large part. TikTok’s AI content policy for creators and sellers, dated September 2, 2026, requires disclosure when content is fully generated or significantly edited with AI, especially with synthetic faces or realistic virtual people. You can disclose with on-screen text, a watermark, a sticker, a note in the description, or the "AI-generated content" toggle when you post, which shows "Disclosed by creator as AI-generated". TikTok may also label content itself from technical metadata, and that label cannot be removed.

For listing images, neither the listing policy nor the AI image policy asks for a label, and no label field for listing images was found as of September 24, 2026. Added text on listing images is banned, so do not paint an "AI" label onto a product image. For ads, see TikTok ad specs and do you need to label AI images in ads.

TikTok Shop image checklist

  • Five to nine square images, each at least 600 x 600 px, as JPG or PNG of 5 MB or less.
  • The main image shows the front of the product on pure white, with nothing added.
  • The other images cover the back, sides, details, accessories and scale, with no angle repeated.
  • No text, logos, stickers, borders or watermarks on any image.
  • Every image is in color, with no filter that hides the brand.
  • Only what ships to the buyer is shown, in the right count.
  • Any AI-made or AI-edited image matches the real product’s size, color, material and count.
  • One video under 5 MB, if you add one.

Questions people also ask

Can I reuse my Amazon images on TikTok Shop?
Often, with changes. Both want the product alone on pure white for the main image. TikTok Shop also needs every image square, bans added text, logos and borders on every image, and stops at 9 images, so crop to square, remove any callout graphics and cut the set down to fit.
Can I show a size comparison in TikTok Shop images?
Yes. TikTok’s listing policy lists size comparisons among the photos you can add. Its AI image policy then bans false scale, so a comparison must not make the item look larger, taller or thicker than its stated size, and labels or arrows must not conflict with the dimensions on the product page.
How do I reuse images across many TikTok Shop listings?
Upload them once to the Product Media Center under Manage Products. It stores images and videos for free, lets you pick them when you create single listings, and exports image URLs you can paste into a bulk listing file.

Where Overs fits

Overs makes store and feed photos from one product photo and exports them; it does not publish to TikTok Shop. On Pro and Team plans, a reviewer checks each photo against the reference pictures before you see it, looking for the kind of drift TikTok’s AI policy bans. Still compare every file with the real product before upload.

Free for 40 photos a month. The AI that makes the photos is billed separately, on your own key, with no markup from Overs.

Sources

Checked on September 24, 2026. Prices, specs and rules change; follow the links for the current versions.

  1. 1.TikTok Shop Academy (US): Product Listing Policy (September 1, 2026)
  2. 2.TikTok Shop Academy (US): Product Listing, what you need to know (August 10, 2026)
  3. 3.TikTok Shop Academy (US): AI-generated content restrictions and requirements for product listing images (September 24, 2026)
  4. 4.TikTok Shop Academy (US): AI-generated content restrictions and requirements (September 2, 2026)
  5. 5.TikTok Shop Academy (US): Using Product Media Center to upload images faster
  6. 6.Amazon Seller Central: Product image guide