Modify your YouTube channel name & contour picture

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

Your YouTube channel name and profile film are non the same as your Google Account proper noun and picture show. All of your YouTube channel Name activeness volition still be stored with your Google Account and used in accord with our privacy policy. Your Google Account is always your primary account; the YouTube name is just your public persona on YouTube.

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

Proceed in mind…

  • Our Community Guidelines apply to all types of content on YouTube, including your channel name. If y'all come across a channel name that you believe violates YouTube's policies, you can written report it past post-obit these steps.
  • If you've translated your aqueduct proper noun with channel translations, you'll need to update the translations with your new proper name.
  • If you change your YouTube channel name and picture, information technology will but 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

Alarm: Irresolute your proper noun will remove your verification bluecoat.

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

Change your contour picture

  1. Tap your profile motion picture Profile.
  2. Tap Your Channel.
  3. Tap EDIT CHANNEFifty.
  4. Tap on your avatar.
  5. Take or cull a new contour flick, then drag your profile motion-picture show to the heart of the square.
  6. Tap Relieve as profile picture.

Profile picture show guidelines

Your profile picture must follow our Customs Guidelines and run across the following criteria:

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

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