Change your Google Account film, name & other info

You can update, add, and remove some basic info on your account.

Your name and profile flick can be viewed by other people who utilize Google services, including when yous communicate or share content. Larn more than near how to control what others see about you beyond Google services.

Note: If you utilise a different name on your YouTube channel, whatsoever change you make to your Google Account name will not be reflected on YouTube. Acquire more about your YouTube channel name here.

If you alter your Google name or profile picture show, it won't change your YouTube proper name or profile moving picture.

Add together or change your contour picture

  2. Nether "Personal info," click Photo.

  3. Upload a photo from your computer or choose ane of your Google Photos.

  4. Rotate and crop your photo as needed.

    • Notice steps to crop your photo with assistive technology below.

  5. At the bottom left, click Salve as contour motion-picture show.

Crop your photograph with assistive technology or keyboard

Crop your photograph from a corner

  1. Navigate to select the corner of your photo.
  2. Use the arrow keys to ingather the photo.

Move the entire crop square

  1. Navigate to select the entire crop square.
  2. Use the pointer keys to change the position of the crop square.

Edit your proper name

Yous can modify your name equally many times as you want.

  2. Nether "Personal info," click Name and then Edit Edit.

  3. Follow the steps on the screen.

Set up an old name that nonetheless shows

If you inverse your name, but the old name still shows upward, articulate your cache and cookies.

Important:When you articulate your cookies, you might be signed out of not-Google sites.

Change personal info

You can edit personal info like your birthday and gender. Y'all can also change the email addresses and phone numbers on your business relationship.

  2. Nether "Personal info," click the info you lot desire to alter.

  3. Follow the steps on the screen.

More details

Name

You can modify your name as many times as you lot desire.

Nickname

Birthday

Afterwards y'all add together your altogether to your business relationship, you tin't delete it. All the same, you tin can edit it and change who sees it.

Note: Your birthday may be used for business relationship security and personalization across Google services.

Who tin can view your altogether

By default, your birthday isn't shared with other people who utilize Google services. To control who sees your birthday, become to the Virtually me section of your Google Account.

Some ways Google uses your birthday

Google tin can use your birthday to:

  • Brand sure you're old plenty to use certain services and features. For instance, YouTube videos with age restrictions aren't available to kids.
  • Know when to testify a birthday theme on the Google Search folio.
  • Decide your historic period group for personalized recommendations and ads. You tin turn off personalized ads.

Gender

You lot accept a few options in the Gender section of your Google Business relationship. Y'all can:

  • Specify your gender
  • Choose non to specify your gender
  • Add a custom gender and cull how Google refers to you

Who tin can view your gender

Past default, your gender isn't shared with other people who use Google services. To control who sees your gender, go to the About me section of your Google Account.

How Google uses your gender

We use your gender to make Google services more personal. When you lot specify your gender, yous help us to:

  • Personalize messages and other text that refer to you. For example, people who tin see your gender will come across text like "Send him a bulletin" or "In her circles."
  • Provide more relevant, tailored content you might be interested in, like ads.

If yous don't specify your gender, nosotros'll refer to you lot in gender-neutral terms, like "Transport them a bulletin."

Mini profile

Your mini profile is a limited version of your principal contour. It helps people yous haven't interacted with notwithstanding in a Google service to brand certain they're interacting with the right person without revealing your full profile. For example, your mini contour may help someone on Google Pay make sure they transport money to the intended recipient. After you interact with someone in a Google service, they can view your total profile, including your profile image and last proper name.

What's included in your mini profile

In your mini profile, you tin can choose to:

  • Employ either your name from your main contour or a shorter version of your name.
  • Evidence or hide your profile picture.

Update your mini profile

Tip: To use your mini contour, you must turn on Better sharing on Google in your telephone number settings.

Modify other info

Related manufactures

  • Content policy for "Nigh me" information

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