# Personalize your profile
You can share information about yourself with other users by setting a profile picture and adding a bio to your profile.
> \[!NOTE]
> Your profile name for your is GitHub account is **required**. All other profile information described in this article is **optional**.
## Changing your profile picture
Your profile picture helps identify you across GitHub in pull requests, comments, contributions pages, and graphs.
### Setting a profile picture
1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click ** Settings**.
2. Under "Profile Picture", select ** Edit**, then click **Upload a photo...**.
3. Select an image, then click **Upload**.
4. Crop your picture.
5. Click **Set new profile picture**.
### Resetting your profile picture to the identicon
1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click ** Settings**.
2. Under "Profile Picture", select ** Edit**, then click **Remove photo** to revert to your identicon.
If your email address is associated with a [Gravatar](https://en.gravatar.com/), you cannot revert to your identicon. Click **Revert to Gravatar** instead.
## Changing your profile name
Your GitHub profile name **does not** need to correlate with your real-world identity.
1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click ** Settings**.
2. Under "Public profile", in the "Name" field, type the name you want to be displayed on your profile.
## Adding a bio to your profile
1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click ** Settings**.
2. Under "Public profile", in the "Bio" field, type 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**.
## Adding pronouns to your profile
Add pronouns to your public user profile to share information about yourself with other GitHub users.
1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click ** Settings**.
2. Under **Pronouns**, add the pronouns that you want displayed on your profile. You may add custom pronouns.
3. Click **Update profile**.
## Setting your location and time zone
1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click ** Settings**.
2. Under "Public profile", in the "Location" field, type the location you want to be displayed on your profile.
3. Optionally, display the current local time on your profile.
* Select **Display current local time**.
* Select the **Time zone** dropdown menu, then click your local time zone.
4. Click **Update profile**.
## Adding links to your social accounts
You can add up to four links to social accounts on your profile.
1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click ** Settings**.
2. Under "Social accounts", in a blank "Link to social profile" field, type the full URL of the social account. For example, for the `@GitHub` Twitter account, type `https://twitter.com/github`.
3. Click **Update profile**.
## Adding your ORCID iD to your profile
If you're a researcher with an ORCID iD, you can identify yourself by adding your ORCID iD to your profile.
1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click ** Settings**.
2. Under "ORCID iD", click **Connect your ORCID iD**.
3. Follow the steps to sign in to your ORCID account and then return to GitHub.
## Setting a status
You can set a status to display information about your current availability.
1. In the top right corner of GitHub, click your profile picture, then click ** Set status** or, if you already have a status set, click your current status.
2. In the "What's happening" field, type a status message.
3. Optionally, to set an emoji status, click , then click an emoji from the list.
4. Optionally, if you'd like to share that you have limited availability, select "Busy."
5. Select the **Expiration** dropdown menu, then click when you want your status to expire. If you don't select a status expiration, you will keep your status until you clear or edit your status.
6. Select the **Visible to** dropdown menu, then click who you want your status visible to. If you don't select an organization, your status will be public.
7. Click **Set status**.
## Next steps
* To learn more about GitHub profiles, see [About your profile](/en/account-and-profile/concepts/personal-profile).
* For reference information, see [Profile reference](/en/account-and-profile/reference/profile-reference).
* For more detailed profile customizations, see [How-tos for your GitHub account and profile](/en/account-and-profile/how-tos/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile).