Facebook Profile Picture Size & Preview
See your photo inside the round frame at 170, 40 and 32 px before you upload it.
Drop your profile photo here or click to choose
JPG, PNG or WebP. You can also paste from the clipboard. The photo never leaves your browser.
Drag to reposition, use the slider to zoom. The dashed circle is what Facebook shows; the corners are cut off.
Your photo is smaller than px, so it will be upscaled and may look soft.
How it will look
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Facebook profile picture size in 2026
Facebook stores one square profile picture and shows it at several sizes. On your profile page it is 170 × 170 px on desktop and 128 × 128 px on phones; above your posts in the feed it shrinks to 40 × 40 px, and next to comments it is only 32 × 32 px. Every version is masked into a circle. The upload has to be at least 320 × 320 px, but a 1000 × 1000 px square (or larger) gives Facebook enough pixels to produce a sharp version for every screen.
| Where it shows | Displayed size | Shape | What to upload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profile page, desktop | 170 × 170 | Circle | 1000 × 1000 square JPG |
| Profile page, phone app | 128 × 128 | Circle | same file |
| Post header in the feed | 40 × 40 | Circle | same file |
| Comments and replies | 32 × 32 | Circle | same file |
| Page (business) profile picture | 170 / 128 / 40 / 32 | Circle | 1000 × 1000, logo padded |
| Minimum accepted upload | — | Square | 320 × 320 |
The circle crop: what gets cut off
You upload a square, Facebook displays a circle. The circle touches the four edges of the square, so the four corners disappear: about 21 % of the picture is never shown. Anything that matters, a face, a logo, a name, needs to sit inside the inscribed circle, ideally in the middle 70 % of the frame, because the small 40 px and 32 px versions also lose fine detail near the edge.
Facebook lets you drag and zoom during upload, but it does not let you see the 32 px comment version. Use the preview above: if the face is still recognisable at 32 px, the picture works everywhere. If you want a picture that is deliberately round (for other sites or a résumé), the "Round PNG" button exports the same crop with transparent corners; Facebook itself only needs the square.
How to prepare a profile picture that stays sharp
- Start from the original photo, not a screenshot or a picture that already went through WhatsApp or Messenger. Those are compressed to roughly 800 px and the softness compounds.
- Crop to a square first. A 1000 × 1000 px crop with the face filling 50–70 % of the height is the sweet spot: large enough for 2× screens, small enough to upload fast.
- Zoom so the head is centred and the top of the hair is not touching the edge. The circle mask trims the corners, and the 40 px feed version trims perceived detail even more.
- Export as JPG at 85–92 % quality in sRGB. For a flat logo with sharp edges use PNG; Facebook will convert it, but the source edges stay crisp.
- Upload the square. Facebook re-encodes it into every display size; you do not need to make the 170 px or 40 px versions yourself.
Why your profile picture looks blurry, and how it sits next to the cover
Blurry after upload: the source was under 320 px, was a heavily compressed download, or was a PNG photo that Facebook re-encoded to JPG at a low quality setting. Replace it with a fresh 1000 × 1000 JPG. Facebook also shows a low-resolution placeholder for a few seconds while the full version is processed; give it a minute before judging.
Blurry only on a phone: phone screens are 2× or 3× density. A 320 px upload displayed at 128 CSS pixels needs 384 real pixels on a 3× screen, so it is upscaled. A 1000 px upload avoids that.
Next to the cover photo: on desktop the 170 px circle overlaps the bottom-left of the 820 × 312 cover with a white ring around it; on phones it sits centred below the cover. Pick a profile photo whose background does not fight with the bottom-left corner of your cover, and keep the cover's important content away from that corner.
Page vs personal profile: the sizes are identical. The difference is content: a business page usually uploads a logo, and logos need 10–15 % padding on every side so the circle does not clip the letters. A wide wordmark rarely works; use the icon or monogram instead.
