Facebook is a social media platform that allows us to stay connected with our friends across the world.
On Facebook you can upload your profile photo, can post the text, tag your friends, etc. And if you want to remove your profile photo from Facebook but don’t know how to do it?
You are at the right place. Here you will get to know about how to remove your profile photo from Facebook.
Let’s get started.
HOW TO REMOVE YOUR PROFILE PHOTO ON FACEBOOK?
You have to open your Facebook account to remove your profile photo from Facebook.
After that go to your profile picture and there three dots will be visible to you .
Tap on those three dots.
Then a option of ” Delete Photo ” will appear.
Click on that.
Your profile photo will be removed.
But a default profile photo will get uploaded which is a white Silhouette of a person with blue background at the place of your profile photo.
If you don’t want your Facebook profile to look like this then tap on the select profile picture option and upload the other picture as your new profile photo of Facebook.
Below a good explanation of how to remove your profile photo from Facebook is given.
Let’s go through them.
1. OPEN YOUR FACEBOOK PROFILE :
Open up your Facebook account.
You can follow these steps either on your desktop/laptop or on your mobile phone.
Once you opened your Facebook account, you will see an icon of MENU at the bottom of your navigation bar.
Tap on the menu icon, and you will directly reach to Facebook menu
Here lots of options will be available to you.
Facebook name and profile picture will be one of them.
“See your profile ” will be visible to you just below the name.
Tap on ” see your profile“.
2. VIEW YOUR PROFILE PICTURE :
After you have tapped on “see your profile” you will reach to Facebook profile.
Here you will get to see the Facebook profile picture and your name.
Your cover photo will also be visible to you.
Now as you want to remove your profile photo you have to click on your profile picture.
After clicking on the profile photo, a navigation menu will get opened on your screen with four various options i.e. :
- View profile picture.
- The select profile picture and video.
- Add frame.
- Create an Avatar profile picture.
To see your profile picture just tap on “view profile picture”
3. DELETE YOUR PROFILE PICTURE :
After tapping on the view profile picture, a full-size image of your profile photo will appear on your screen. Except for your image, you will get to see a tag option and three dots on your screen. Tap on the three dots. Tapping on three gots will bring you to the navigation menu.
Here various options will appear on your screen like :
- Delete photo
- Make cover photo
- Save photo
- And many others
If you wanted to remove your profile photo you will have to click on the delete photo option. As soon as you Tap on delete photo, your photo will get deleted from your profile on Facebook.
And if you want to change your profile photo, what you have to do is, simply tap on our profile picture again and click on the option of “select profile picture and video “.
HOW CAN YOU HAVE NO PROFILE PHOTO ON FACEBOOK?
If you want to have no profile photo on your Facebook account then what?
- Simply open your Facebook account.
- Tap on Your Profile Picture.
- Click on View Profile Picture.
- Then click on three dots.
- And finally, tap on delete photo.
By following the steps given above your profile photo will get removed and a default profile picture will get uploaded which will be a white silhouette with blue background.
HOW TO REMOVE YOUR PROFILE PICTURE ON FACEBOOK WITHOUT DELETING IT?
Yes, you can remove your profile photo from Facebook without deleting it.
To do so you have to change your profile settings to ” ONLY ME“.
For that follow the steps given below :
- Move to your profile.
- Tap on Your Profile Picture.
- Click on View Profile Picture.
- Then click on three dots.
- After that tap on edit privacy/ edit audience.
- And finally, tap on ONLY ME.
Now, after changing the settings your profile photo will be visible to you only, others can’t view it.
CONCLUSION :
Facebook is a platform where we can get connected to our friends across the country.
On Facebook, we can also upload our photos as our profile pictures.
But keeping the same pic as your profile photo doesn’t seem good.
So everyone updates their profile photo.
Now you have also learned how to change or remove your profile photo from Facebook through today’s session.