How to Edit Your Facebook Profile Picture Thumbnail

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This wikiHow teaches you how to change the way your Facebook profile picture appears in its thumbnail. You can only do this from the Facebook website. Changing your profile picture to a different picture is a different process.

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    Go to https://www.facebook.com/ in your preferred web browser. This will open your Facebook News Feed if you're logged in.
    • If you aren't logged in, enter your email address (or phone number) and password in the top-right side of the page.
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    This tab is in the upper-right side of the Facebook page, directly to the right of the search bar. Doing so takes you to your profile page.
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    Hover your mouse over your profile picture, which is on the left side of your profile page. You'll see a window with Update Profile Picture written in it appear.
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    It's at the bottom of your profile picture's thumbnail. Doing so opens the Update Profile Picture window.
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    It's in the top-right side of the Update Profile Picture window. This will open your profile picture's thumbnail in an Edit Thumbnail window.
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    There are a couple of different things you can change here:
    • Zoom - Click and drag the slider at the bottom of the window right to zoom in. If your profile picture was already zoomed all the way in, you can't do this.
    • Reposition - After zooming in, you can click and drag your profile picture around to reposition it in the frame.
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    This blue button is at the bottom of the Edit Thumbnail window. Doing so will save your changes and apply them to your profile photo.
    • These changes will also appear in your Facebook mobile app.
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      1. Go to https://www.facebook.com/
      2. Click your name tab .
      3. Select your profile photo .
      4. Click Update Profile Picture .
      5. Click the pencil icon .
      6. Zoom and/or reposition your profile picture.
      7. Click Save .

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