Change your YouTube channel name & contour picture

When you create a channel on YouTube, yous tin cull a channel name and profile flick for YouTube that's different from your Google Business relationship. Your YouTube aqueduct proper name and moving-picture show will be your public identity on YouTube and all publicly attributable actions will display your YouTube channel name and profile film, for example, in comments and on your channel page.

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

How to Update Your YouTube Channel Proper name & Profile Motion picture (Without Updating Google Business relationship Info)

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  • Our Community Guidelines use to all types of content on YouTube, including your channel name. If you lot come up across a channel name that you believe violates YouTube's policies, yous can study information technology by following these steps.
  • If you've translated your aqueduct name with channel translations, you'll demand to update the translations with your new name.
  • If you lot alter your YouTube channel proper name and picture, it will only exist visible on YouTube. You can make changes to your Google account name and pic here (with no changes made to your YouTube channel proper name).

Change your channel name

Alert: Irresolute your proper noun will remove your verification badge.

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

Change your profile moving-picture show

  1. Tap your profile picture Profile.
  2. Tap Your Channel.
  3. Tap EDIT CHANNEL.
  4. Tap on your avatar.
  5. Take or choose a new profile picture, then drag your contour picture to the center of the foursquare.
  6. Tap Save every bit profile moving picture.

Profile motion-picture show guidelines

Your profile picture must follow our Customs Guidelines and meet the post-obit 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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