Personalizing your profile

In this article

• Changing your profile picture
• Adding a bio to your profile

Changing your profile picture

Your profile picture helps identify you across GitHub Enterprise in pull requests, comments, contributions pages, and graphs. You can choose to have a profile picture that represents you, your likeness, or your spirit animal.

When you sign up for an account, GitHub Enterprise provides you with a randomly generated "identicon". Your identicon generates from a hash of your user ID, so there's no way to control its color or pattern. You can replace your identicon with an image of your choice.

Setting a profile picture

1. In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.

   

2. Under Profile Picture, you can either drag-and-drop your image from a local folder, or click Upload new picture to upload a new photo manually.

   

3. Crop your picture. When you're done, click Set new profile picture.

   

Resetting your profile picture to the identicon

1. Go to your designated identicon at https://github.com/identicons/USERNAME.png.
2. Download your identicon.
3. Follow the previous steps to replace the image.

Adding a bio to your profile

Add a bio to your profile to share information about yourself with other GitHub Enterprise users. With the help of @mention's and emoji, you can include information about where you currently or have previously worked, what type of work you do, or even what kind of coffee you drink.

1. In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.

   

2. Under Bio, add the content that you want displayed on your profile. The bio field is limited to 160 characters.

   

   Tip: When you @mention an organization, only those that you're a member of will autocomplete. You can still @mention organizations that you're not a member of, like a previous employer, but the organization name won't autocomplete for you.

3. Click Update profile.

   

Further reading

• "About your profile"