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WhatsApp DP size, and profile picture sizes for other apps

WhatsApp has no official DP size. It crops your photo to a square and shows it as a circle, so use a square photo with the face in the middle. Other apps’ official sizes are below.

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Circle crop shows exactly what will be visible in a round profile picture and saves a square PNG with see-through corners. Crop image cuts a plain 1:1 square.

Crop a photo into a circle

WhatsApp DP size

WhatsApp doesn’t publish an official profile photo size; its help centre only explains how to change the photo. What it does do is fixed: when you set a profile photo, it asks you to crop a square, and it shows that square as a circle in chats and contact lists.

So the practical rules are:

  • Shape: square, 1:1. Anything else gets cropped to a square when you set it.
  • Pixels: a square of at least 500 × 500 px stays sharp when someone opens your photo full screen. A full phone photo cropped to a square is far bigger than that, which is fine.
  • Format: JPG or PNG. If you use a PNG with see-through corners, the corners fall outside the circle, so they never show.
  • What shows: only the circle inside the square. The corners are cut off.

How to fit a full photo in a WhatsApp DP

WhatsApp has no “fit” option, so a tall or wide photo always loses its edges. To keep the whole picture, add space around it so it becomes square first:

  1. Measure the long side. A 1080 × 1350 portrait photo has a long side of 1350 px.
  2. Make a square canvas that size. 1350 × 1350 px, in white, black or a colour from the photo.
  3. Put the photo in the middle. It now has bars on the left and right instead of being cropped.
  4. Check the circle. The circle cuts the corners, so faces near the edge may still be clipped.

Most phone gallery editors can add a border or frame for this. Shrinking the photo inside the square makes it small in a circle that is already tiny in a chat list, so for a DP a close crop on the face usually reads better.

Who can see your WhatsApp DP

WhatsApp lets you choose who sees your profile photo. On Android, go to Settings → Privacy → Profile photo; on iPhone the setting is also under Privacy. The choices are:

SettingWho sees your photo
EveryoneAnyone who has your number
My contactsOnly people saved in your contacts
My contacts except…Your contacts, minus the people you pick
NobodyNo one

People you have blocked don’t see changes to your profile photo. If a friend can’t see your photo when they should, WhatsApp suggests checking the privacy settings on both phones and making sure each of you has saved the other’s number.

A profile photo is also shown in notifications on other people’s phones, so pick one you are happy for anyone in a group chat to see if your setting is “Everyone”.

Profile picture sizes for WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and more

Where an app publishes a size, it is listed from its own help centre, checked in October 2026. Every app here shows the profile picture as a circle.

AppOfficial sizeNotes
WhatsAppNot publishedSquare crop, shown as a circle
InstagramNot publishedSquare crop, shown as a circle
Facebook Page320 × 320 px recommendedDisplays at 176 × 176 on computers, 196 × 196 on phones
LinkedIn400 × 400 px minimumUp to 7680 × 4320 px, 8 MB, JPG or PNG
X (Twitter)400 × 400 px recommendedJPG, PNG or GIF, 2 MB maximum
YouTubeDisplays at 98 × 98 pxJPG, GIF, BMP or PNG, 15 MB maximum

If you want one image for everything, a square of 800 × 800 px or more covers every published minimum and is small enough to upload anywhere.

Cover photo and banner sizes

AppSizeNotes
Facebook Page coverAt least 400 × 150 pxLoads fastest as an 851 × 315 px sRGB JPG under 100 KB
LinkedIn background1584 × 396 px recommendedUnder 8 MB
X header1500 × 500 px recommendedTop and bottom may be cropped on some screens
YouTube bannerAt least 2048 × 1152 pxKeep text inside the central 1235 × 338 px; 6 MB maximum
YouTube thumbnail16:9, at least 640 px wide3840 × 2160 recommended; 2 MB limit on mobile

Covers are cropped differently on phones and computers, so keep text and faces away from the edges. The resize image tool has presets for a Facebook cover, an X header and a YouTube thumbnail.

Designing for a circle

  • Centre the face. A circle inside a square loses about a fifth of the area, all of it from the corners.
  • Leave space above the head. If the crown touches the top of the square, the circle cuts into it.
  • Keep logos smaller than the circle. A square logo that fills the square loses its corners. Shrink it to fit inside a circle, leaving a margin.
  • Avoid small text. In a chat list the picture is only a few millimetres across.

Making a profile picture at the right size

  1. Open the photo in circle crop. Drag and zoom until the face sits in the middle of the circle.
  2. Download the square. You get a square PNG; the corners outside the circle are see-through.
  3. Resize if an app needs exact pixels. Use resize image to set, for example, 400 × 400 for LinkedIn.
  4. Upload it. In WhatsApp, open Settings, tap your profile and choose the new photo.

Everything happens in your browser, so the photo isn’t sent anywhere before you choose to upload it to the app.

Why a DP looks blurry

  • The source was small. A photo saved from a chat or a screenshot is already compressed. Start from the original in your gallery.
  • You zoomed in a long way. Cropping a small face out of a group photo leaves few pixels.
  • The app compresses uploads. Messaging apps recompress images to save data. A sharp, well-lit original survives this better than a dark or noisy one.
  • It was a screenshot of a photo. A screenshot keeps only the screen’s pixels and any interface around the picture. Share or export the photo itself instead, then crop it.
  • Heavy filters or text. Fine detail and small writing turn to mush when a picture is shown a few millimetres wide. Keep the design simple and bold.
  • Enlarging didn’t help. Making a small photo bigger in pixels doesn’t add detail; it only makes the file larger.

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