Can I change my Twitter profile photo directly from my iPhone, or do I need to log in to the Twitter Web site to accomplish this?
The Twitter app for iOS is quite sophisticated and has a lot of capabilities that aren’t always obvious, one of which is, yes, to let you be able to switch your profile photo or your account banner image. But the bigger challenge is taking and finding that perfect photo of yourself, whether it be you snarling, grinning or asleep with a hat askew on your head.
Fortunately one of the other features of the Twitter app is that you can zoom in to the most important part of your photo (you, naturally!) even if you’re just part of the crowd.
Let me show you what I mean, starting with a standard Twitter home page in the app on my iPhone 6s:
Don’t be distracted by all the other posts, you want to look on the very bottom right of the screen. See the “Me” icon?
Tap on it. Yes, it’s all about me. 🙂
Now you’ll want to click on “Edit profile”, near the top right and just below your banner photo.
No? Want to follow me on Twitter first? Awww… that’s nice. I’m @DaveTaylor. And thanks.
Now back to work!
Pretty easy to guess how to proceed…
Tap on the camera icon superimposed over your profile photo.
In this case, the photo I want to use is in my photo library, so I’ll tap on “Choose from library” but you can just as easily take a phototoo if you’re so inclined.
Changed your mind? You can ‘cancel’ too.
I could use a photo of my daughter being a nutter or one of our cat with one of his weird expressions, but nawww, I’m going to use the photo of me driving and sporting my cool new Native sunglasses.
To select it, I simply tap on the correct photo from the library and there I am, in all my sunglass-wearing glory:
Notice that there’s a square area highlighted. You can actually move that around to center it exactly as you want and you can also tap and drag corners of the box to zoom in or out.
Keep in mind that the image is going to be pretty darn small, like smaller-than-a-postage-stamp small, so you really do want to zoom in a fair amount for the best effect.
Zoomed and moved to the optimal spot? Great! Tap on “Choose“.
Just about done. Want to change anything else? Now’s your golden opportunity!
If not, just tap on “Save” on the top right and you’re done, new profile pic installed.
Nice, eh? Very summery!