Alter your YouTube channel name & profile picture show

When you create a channel on YouTube, you tin can choose a aqueduct proper noun and profile picture for YouTube that's unlike from your Google Account. Your YouTube channel name and picture will exist your public identity on YouTube and all publicly attributable actions will brandish your YouTube aqueduct name and profile picture, for example, in comments and on your aqueduct page.

Your YouTube aqueduct name and profile picture are not the same every bit your Google Account proper noun and picture. All of your YouTube channel Name activity volition still be stored with your Google Business relationship and used in accordance with our privacy policy. Your Google Business relationship is always your main account; the YouTube name is only your public persona on YouTube.

How to Update Your YouTube Channel Name & Profile Motion-picture show (Without Updating Google Account Info)

Keep in mind…

  • Our Customs Guidelines employ to all types of content on YouTube, including your channel name. If you come across a channel proper name that you believe violates YouTube's policies, you tin report it by following these steps.
  • If yous've translated your channel proper noun with channel translations, you'll demand to update the translations with your new proper name.
  • If you change your YouTube channel name and moving-picture show, it will merely exist visible on YouTube. You lot can brand changes to your Google account name and picture here (with no changes made to your YouTube channel name).

Change your channel name

Warning: Changing your proper noun will remove your verification badge.

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  1. In the mobile app, tap your profile motion picture Profile.
  2. Tap Your Channel.
  3. Tap Edit Channel Edit.
  4. Enter your updated name and tap OK.

Change your profile motion-picture show

  1. Tap your profile picture Profile.
  2. Tap Your Channel.
  3. Tap EDIT CHANNEFifty.
  4. Tap on your avatar.
  5. Take or choose a new profile picture, then elevate your profile movie to the centre of the square.
  6. Tap Save every bit profile picture.

Contour flick guidelines

Your profile picture must follow our Community Guidelines and meet the following criteria:

  • JPG, GIF, BMP, or PNG file (no animated GIFs)
  • Minimum size: 98 Ten 98 px
  • Maximum file size: 4 MB

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