How to set profile picture in whatsapp

Did you know that WhatsApp allows you to change your profile picture at any time? Our guide will show you how this is done.

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• The Benefits of Using WhatsCrop to Set Your WhatsApp Profile Picture in Full Size
• How do I put a picture on my WhatsApp profile?
• How do I set my profile picture?
• How can I change my profile picture on WhatsApp 2022?

Note: These screenshots were captured in the WhatsApp application on iOS. Also note, this process is slightly different on iOS and Android.

Step 1: On iOS, tap “Settings” in the bottom-right corner of the screen. On Android, tap the menu button, and then tap “Settings.”

Step 2: On iOS, tap your name near the top of the screen.

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WhatsApp is continuing its success story and reached a milestone recently. It became the leading messaging service in mobile platform surpassing facebook. While you are away home, you can use WhatsApp to know the pulse of your family and friends. Share your feelings with your friends and family in the form messages, smileys, photos and videos through this lightning fast messaging service. To spice up your WhatsApp use, here is a useful tip. Learn how to upload your photo without cropping it to WhatsApp as your profile picture.

A cropped profile photo will not look good anyway. By uploading full size photos as profile picture, you can avoid showing your closeup photo as your profile picture on WhatsApp. To set a full size photo as your WhatsApp profile picture, you need the following.

Install a free app called Square from Google Play. The core purpose of this app is to make your photos in square size with adding borders in selected colours around the photo. The photo thus squared can be uploaded to WhatsApp as your full size profile picture.

Update: This app stopped service or removed from Google Play. I’ve added a new alternative to help you to set your WhatsApp Profile Picture in Full Size. Just jump to the next title below. It’s an awesome app with 1 Million + downloads!

Here is the step by step instruction to set your full size photo as WhatsApp profile picture.

Run the app Square.

Tap on Pick a Photo > Gallery and select the photo that you want to Square.

Tap Done. Now see the colour dropper icon on the bottom to change the border colour, if you want. Black is the preferable one.

Now save the photo by tapping the save / floppy disc icon on the top.

Now open WhatsApp and set the photo you just squared as your profile picture. Enjoyed this tip? Then don’t forget to give us a “Like”.

I recently found that the above featured app is no more available in the app store or may be I can’t access it as it’s not available in my region. So I made some experiment with some other photo editing apps and come up with an even better solution.

Download: WhatsCrop

Update on 28-Sep-2019. This app is no more available. But you can Google it and find the apk dowload.

First install this app from the Play Store. Now I’ll tell you how to use this app to set your WhatsApp Profile Picture in Full Size. Actually this app can automatically size your profile picture fit to WhatsApp profile circle.

Steps

Open the App. On the home screen of the app you can see different navigation icons (I may call it “button” here after) at the bottom. In the below screenshot I’ve marked that. There are five buttons.

First Button:

Tap on the first button to select the photo to edit or take a new photo using your phone camera.

Second Button:

The second button has two options. They are “Fit to circle” and “Fit to Square”. See the image. You can see the circle and square boundary marked on the screen. You just need to tap on the “Fit to circle” to make your picture fit to your WhatsApp profile cicrle. Now you can tap on the 5th button that will automatically take you to your WhatsApp Profile page. Then what’s the purpose of the third an fourth buttons? I’ll come to that. There are more in the second button itself.

You can manually adjust the image by pinching or sliding the picture. But take note that whatever you do, try to limit the photo resides in the circle.

Third Button:

The third button is to rotate the picture.

Fourth Button:

This button provides you with three options. They are;

Background Colour – As I’ve said, the app automatically adjusts your picture to reside within the circle. Of course, then there may be white spaces around your image. You can fill that white space with your choice of colour. Here I’ve filled the background with Red colour.

Note: You can manually pinch the photo to fit correctly inside the circle and remove some unwanted portions. So no need to fill colour. WhatsApp does not offer these much flexibility in adjusting your profile picture.

Background Image: You have also the choice to fill the empty space with background image. Select the available images. If you want to remove the image, again tap on “Background Image” and select “Clear.png”

Photo Frame: This’s similar to background image.

Fifth Button:

The fifth button will directly take you to your WhatsApp profile page where you can set the just edit photo as your full size profile picture.

The Benefits of Using WhatsCrop to Set Your WhatsApp Profile Picture in Full Size

1. You can set full size profile photo in WhatsApp.

2. Make your photos square, add boarders, fill colour etc.

3. You can adjust your WhatsApp profile photo outside WhatsApp and preview how it will look like once you set it as profile picture.

4. Finally you can even crop images by pinching or moving. Yup! It offers some photo editing features. That’s all.

How do I put a picture on my WhatsApp profile?

How do I set my profile picture?

How can I change my profile picture on WhatsApp 2022?