How to change your pfp on youtube

The first thing you should do when building a YouTube channel is give it a recognizable profile picture. The first thing people see when clicking on your video is the thumbnail. After opening your video, their eyes will likely wander down to the channel the video was posted on. If you have a generic profile picture that hasn’t been changed, it says you’re either too lazy to change it or don’t know how to change your YouTube profile picture. Let’s change that!

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Changing your YouTube profile picture (desktop)

Go to YouTube and click your current profile picture in the top right. If you’ve never changed it before, it should appear as a letter with a plain background.

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From the subsequent dropdown menu, click Your channel.

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Next to your channel name, a camera icon should appear when you move your mouse over your profile picture. Click it.

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Clicking that camera icon on your profile picture will redirect you to Channel customization in YouTube Studio. This is the quickest way to reach this page; otherwise, you can manually open YouTube Studio and navigate to Channel customization.

Under Picture, click the UPLOAD button.

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On the Customize picture pop-out, you can crop your image and zoom in or out on certain parts of the image until you’re satisfied. When finished, click DONE.

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Click the blue PUBLISH button at the top to finish changing your YouTube profile picture.

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Changing your YouTube profile picture (Android and iOS)

Open the YouTube app on your Android or iOS device and tap your profile picture in the top right. From the subsequent menu, press Your channel.

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On your channel, tap the pencil-shaped EDIT CHANNEL button.

Press the camera icon above your profile picture. Select either Take a photo or Choose from your photos to add a new profile picture, then press SAVE.

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You’ll get a Profile saved successfully notification once you have changed your profile picture.

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FAQs

What is the best size for a YouTube profile picture?

The best size for any YouTube profile picture is 800 x 800 pixels.

Why can't I change my PFP on YouTube?

Generally, the changes will be taken effect from several minutes to serval hours. If you find that this new profile picture just appears in some places on YouTube, not including your channel, you can try clearing your browser cache and cookies. This fix is quite useful, which has been proved by lots of YouTube users.

How do you change your name and PFP on YouTube?

How to change your YouTube channel name and profile picture on mobile.
Open the YouTube app, and tap your profile picture..
Tap Your channel > Edit channel..
To change your name, enter your updated name and tap OK..
To change your profile picture, tap your picture, and select an existing photo or take a new one. Tap Save..