Managing user account settings
About your personal dashboard
You can visit your personal dashboard to keep track of issues and pull requests you're working on or following, navigate to your top repositories and team pages, stay updated on recent activities in organizations and repositories you're subscribed to, and explore recommended repositories.
Managing your theme settings
You can manage how GitHub looks to you by setting a theme preference that either follows your system settings or always uses a light or dark mode.
Managing your tab size rendering preference
You can manage the number of spaces a tab is equal to for your personal account.
Changing your GitHub username
You can change the username for your account on GitHub.com.
Permission levels for a personal account repository
A repository owned by a personal account has two permission levels: the repository owner and collaborators.
Permission levels for a project board owned by a personal account
A project board owned by a personal account has two permission levels: the project board owner and collaborators.
Managing accessibility settings
GitHub's user interface can adapt to your vision, hearing, motor, cognitive, or learning needs.
Managing the default branch name for your repositories
You can set the default branch name for new repositories that you create on GitHub.com.
Managing security and analysis settings for your personal account
You can control features that secure and analyze the code in your projects on GitHub.
Managing access to your personal account's project boards
As a project board owner, you can add or remove a collaborator and customize their permissions to a project board.
Managing your cookie preferences for GitHub's enterprise marketing pages
You can control how GitHub uses information from non-essential tracking cookies for enterprise marketing pages.
What does the 'Available for hire' checkbox do?
Use the Available for hire checkbox to view GitHub Jobs posts within GitHub.