How to Change Your YouTube Profile Picture Using a Smartphone or Tablet
What is a youtube channel?
A Youtube Channel is where you can manage and organize your video content for your audience on youtube. As the owner of a channel on youtube, you can add your, links, and pieces of information about yourself or your channel (or a website/ product that you are promoting) for your visitors to explore.
When you first create an account, your channel is a digital wasteland all the sections would be empty. Fortunately, YouTube makes it very easy to turn your channel into an attractive virtual destination. After filling in your profile information, you slightly adjust your channel color scheme. You can pick one of the YouTube suggested color schemes or you can create your own using hexadecimal color values.
Your YouTube profile picture is very likely, the first thing that any visitor your YouTube channel would see or rather, experience on your account and channel as they start loading a video, so it is very important that it is as eye-catching and as effective as possible. Accordingly, this guide would explain to you how to change your profile picture, by covering how to make the change on desktop and laptop computers, and also on smartphones.
Change Your Profile Picture on YouTube in a Browser
Changing your youtube profile picture is as easy as it is to log into your YouTube account.
For desktop and laptop users (Windows and Mac), here's how to change it via YouTube:
Go to youtube.com in your computer's browser.
Click on your YouTube profile picture, (it is located at the top-right hand corner of your device screen).
Click on the My-channel option.
Click on your profile picture.
Click on EDIT.
Select the image that you would like to use as your profile picture, or click on the Upload photo button to choose a photo that is saved to your computer.
You should keep in mind that it may take anything from several minutes to several hours for the change to register across all the relevant accounts.
How to Change Your YouTube Profile Picture Using a Smartphone or Tablet
Assuming that you do not have a desktop or laptop computer at hand, you can change your YouTube profile picture using your smartphone or tablet. Regardless of whether you use iOS or Android, here's what you do if you have the YouTube app downloaded on your device:
Open up your YouTube application.
Sign in to your YouTube account.
Tap on your profile picture which is usually at the top-right corner of the page.
Tap on the My channel option.
Tap on the Settings cogwheel icon.
Tap on your profile picture.
Tap either on "Take a photo" or "choose from your photos" options.
Either take a photo with your device camera directly on youtube or you select a photo that is saved to your device and then tap on Use Photo.
You should then see a message at the bottom of the screen, which reads as follows, "Profile photo-updated successfully."
