Change your name, photo and email

The Profile page: the name and photo people see, your sign-in email and your professional profile.

In short

Settings › Profile shows your photo, the display name people see, your email and when you joined. Change your name and photo here and move your account to a new email address. The language {{brand}} speaks is chosen in Settings › Appearance & language.

Before you start

• Who: anyone signed in, for their own profile.
• Plan: none.
• First: to change your sign-in email, have your password ready, and your authenticator app if two-step sign-in is on.

Change your display name

1. Open the account menu (your avatar) and choose "Profile", or go to Settings › "Profile".
2. Type the new name in "Display name".
3. A bar shows "Unsaved changes" with "Discard" and "Save name". Press "Save name", Enter or Ctrl+S.
4. "Profile updated." confirms it. The new name shows everywhere at once.

Add or change your photo

1. On Settings › Profile press "Add a photo" (or "Change photo").
2. Pick a PNG, JPEG or WebP picture of up to 2 MB.
3. "Photo updated." confirms it. "Remove photo" brings your initials back.

Change your sign-in email

1. Beside your email press "Change email".
2. Type the "New email address" and "Your password". With two-step sign-in on, also type the code from your authenticator app, or a recovery code.
3. Press "Send the link". The dialog says "Check your new inbox".
4. Open the link in the new inbox and press "Use this address". You sign in with the new address from now on.

Choose your language and clock

1. Open Settings › "Appearance & language". Under "Language, time and region", choose a "Language". {{brand}} shows and writes to you in it; anything not translated yet appears in English.
2. Choose a "Clock" to set how times are written. It is remembered in this browser.

Good to know

• Your display name and photo appear on test runs, cards you own, comments, applications and messages.
• A display name is 1 to 200 characters. Esc puts the old name back, and leaving with a change unsaved asks first.
• Until you open the link, you keep signing in with your old address. After the change every other device is signed out, and your old address gets an email with a way to take the account back if it was not you.
• Your email shows "Confirmed" or "Not confirmed". Until you confirm it, organization invitations reach you only as emailed links and the weekly summary is not sent. "Send the link again" sends a new confirmation link.
• With Jobs & hiring on, "Professional profile" and "Edit professional profile" open your resume, skills and experience.

If something goes wrong

• "Display name cannot contain control or text-direction characters.": remove the special characters and save again.
• "That is already your email address.": type a different address.
• "Your email address changed in the last few days. It can change again once the address it left can no longer take the account back.": wait a few days, then try again.
• "That picture is over 2 MB. Choose a smaller one." or "Choose a PNG, JPEG or WebP picture.": pick another file.
• "That password is not right.": type your current password again, or reset it first.

Related

• /help/settings/reset-your-password
• /help/settings/two-step-sign-in
• /help/settings/your-data-and-account
• /help/jobs/candidate-profile