docs/content/account-and-profile/tutorials/personalize-your-profile.md

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Personalize your profile	You can share information about yourself with other users by setting a profile picture and adding a bio to your profile.	/articles/adding-a-bio-to-your-profile /articles/setting-your-profile-picture /articles/how-do-i-set-up-my-profile-picture /articles/gravatar-problems /articles/how-do-i-set-up-my-avatar /articles/personalizing-your-profile /github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/personalizing-your-profile /github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/customizing-your-profile/personalizing-your-profile /account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/customizing-your-profile/personalizing-your-profile /account-and-profile/get-started/personalizing-your-profile	fpt ghes ghec * * *	Profiles	Personalize your profile	tutorials

Note

Your profile name for your is {% data variables.product.github %} account is required. All other profile information described in this article is optional.

Changing your profile picture

Your profile picture helps identify you across {% data variables.product.github %} in pull requests, comments, contributions pages, and graphs.

Setting a profile picture

{% data reusables.user-settings.access_settings %} {% data reusables.accounts.set-profile-picture %}

Resetting your profile picture to the identicon

{% data reusables.user-settings.access_settings %}

1. Under "Profile Picture", select {% octicon "pencil" aria-hidden="true" aria-label="pencil" %} Edit, then click Remove photo to revert to your identicon.

   If your email address is associated with a Gravatar, you cannot revert to your identicon. Click Revert to Gravatar instead.

   

Changing your profile name

Your {% data variables.product.github %} profile name does not need to correlate with your real-world identity.

{% data reusables.user-settings.access_settings %}

1. Under "Public profile", in the "Name" field, type the name you want to be displayed on your profile.

Adding a bio to your profile

{% data reusables.user-settings.access_settings %}

1. Under "Public profile", in the "Bio" field, type the content that you want displayed on your profile. The bio field is limited to 160 characters.

   Tip

   When you @mention an organization, only those that you're a member of will autocomplete. You can still @mention organizations that you're not a member of, like a previous employer, but the organization name won't autocomplete for you.

{% data reusables.profile.update-profile %}

{% ifversion profile-pronouns %}

Adding pronouns to your profile

Add pronouns to your public user profile to share information about yourself with other {% data variables.product.github %} users.

{% data reusables.user-settings.access_settings %}

1. Under Pronouns, add the pronouns that you want displayed on your profile. You may add custom pronouns.

{% data reusables.profile.update-profile %}

{% endif %}

Setting your location and time zone

{% data reusables.user-settings.access_settings %}

1. Under "Public profile", in the "Location" field, type the location you want to be displayed on your profile.
2. Optionally, display the current local time on your profile.
   • Select Display current local time.
   • Select the Time zone dropdown menu, then click your local time zone. {% data reusables.profile.update-profile %}

{% ifversion profile-social-links %}

Adding links to your social accounts

You can add up to four links to social accounts on your profile.

{% data reusables.user-settings.access_settings %}

1. Under "Social accounts", in a blank "Link to social profile" field, type the full URL of the social account. For example, for the @GitHub Twitter account, type https://twitter.com/github. {% data reusables.profile.update-profile %}

{% endif %}

{% ifversion fpt or ghec %}

Adding your ORCID iD to your profile

If you're a researcher with an ORCID iD, you can identify yourself by adding your ORCID iD to your profile.

{% data reusables.user-settings.access_settings %}

1. Under "ORCID iD", click Connect your ORCID iD.
2. Follow the steps to sign in to your ORCID account and then return to {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}.

{% endif %}

Setting a status

You can set a status to display information about your current availability.

1. In the top right corner of {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}, click your profile picture, then click {% octicon "smiley" aria-hidden="true" aria-label="smiley" %} Set status or, if you already have a status set, click your current status.

   

2. In the "What's happening" field, type a status message.

3. Optionally, to set an emoji status, click {% octicon "smiley" aria-label="Choose an emoji" %}, then click an emoji from the list.

4. Optionally, if you'd like to share that you have limited availability, select "Busy."

5. Select the Clear status dropdown menu, then click when you want your status to expire. If you don't select a status expiration, you will keep your status until you clear or edit your status.

6. Select the Visible to dropdown menu, then click who you want your status visible to. If you don't select an organization, your status will be public.

7. Click Set status.

Next steps

• To learn more about GitHub profiles, see AUTOTITLE.

• For reference information, see AUTOTITLE.

• For more detailed profile customizations, see AUTOTITLE.