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Facebook profile picture size.
Facebook’s Help Center says a Page profile picture should be 320 × 320 px and displays at 176 × 176 on computers; for a personal profile Facebook does not publish a pixel size.
The same Help Center page gives 196 × 196 on smartphones and 36 × 36 on most feature phones, and says the picture is cropped to a circle. The personal-profile Help Center page gives the add, change and delete steps only.
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Page profile picture: 320 × 320, shown at 176 × 176
The public Help Center page “Facebook Page profile picture and cover photo dimensions” was read without a login on 2026-11-06 UTC. These are the profile-picture values it publishes.
| Placement or rule | Published value | Value type | Official page | Read (UTC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best-quality Page profile picture | 320 × 320 px | “320 pixels wide and 320 pixels tall” | Facebook Page profile picture and cover photo dimensions | 2026-11-06 |
| Computer display | 176 × 176 px | Display size | Facebook Page profile picture and cover photo dimensions | 2026-11-06 |
| Smartphone display | 196 × 196 px | Display size | Facebook Page profile picture and cover photo dimensions | 2026-11-06 |
| Feature-phone display | 36 × 36 px | Display size | Facebook Page profile picture and cover photo dimensions | 2026-11-06 |
| Shape | Cropped to a circle | Crop rule | Facebook Page profile picture and cover photo dimensions | 2026-11-06 |
Apply this value to a Page only. A Page is the business, brand or public-figure surface. A personal profile is a separate Help Center page, and the next section records what that page publishes.
The 320 × 320 figure is an upload recommendation for best quality. It is larger than every published display size, so a 320 square has spare pixels for the 196 px phone frame. A 1080 square adds more headroom, but 1080 is this page’s local canvas, not a Facebook recommendation.
Personal profile picture: Not stated
The Help Center page “Your Profile Picture and Cover Photo” is a directory of steps: add a profile picture, change it, add or change a cover photo, delete a picture and adjust a thumbnail. The page read on 2026-11-06 UTC prints no width, height, ratio, byte limit or format list for a personal profile picture.
| Placement or rule | Published value | Value type | Official page | Read (UTC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pixel width and height | Not stated | No pixel number in the article | Your Profile Picture and Cover Photo | 2026-11-06 |
| Aspect ratio or crop rule | Not stated | No ratio or crop rule | Your Profile Picture and Cover Photo | 2026-11-06 |
| Displayed size | Not stated | No display measurement | Your Profile Picture and Cover Photo | 2026-11-06 |
| File-size limit | Not stated | No byte ceiling | Your Profile Picture and Cover Photo | 2026-11-06 |
| Accepted file formats | Not stated | No format list | Your Profile Picture and Cover Photo | 2026-11-06 |
| Minimum or maximum pixels | Not stated | No pixel range | Your Profile Picture and Cover Photo | 2026-11-06 |
| Published steps | Add, change or delete a profile picture | Workflow only | Your Profile Picture and Cover Photo | 2026-11-06 |
COMMUNITY SUMMARY, NOT A HELP CENTER VALUE
320 × 320 at 1:1, a 170 × 170 desktop display and a 180 px short-side floor appear on a community page. facebook.com/fb-answers/what-size-are-profile-pictures/ labels itself “Summarized by Meta AI” and draws on user posts. Treat every number there as a community summary. For a personal profile, 320 is a community figure; this page uses it as a local export canvas. 170 appears only in the display comparison, labelled as community.
“Not stated” is not zero. It means the Help Center page read did not publish the value. No resizer, design template or forum answer is presented here as the official value.
Display sizes: 176, 196, 36 and the community 170
The four circles below use one scale. Three sizes come from the Page dimensions page. The 170 × 170 figure for a personal profile comes from the community summary, so its label stays separate.
At the same scale, the Page desktop frame is 6 px wider than the community personal figure (176 and 170), and the Page phone frame is 26 px wider (196 and 170). The width difference is small; the source difference is the point. The Page values come from Facebook’s Help Center. The 170 value comes from a community Q&A summary that quotes user posts.
Why a profile picture looks blurry after upload
A photo can look sharp on a phone and soft after it becomes a profile picture. Three mechanisms explain most of it. This page measures only the local crop and encode; Facebook’s own processing is outside the test.
Square crop
A non-square photo loses pixels when it fills a square frame. The Page dimensions page says the picture is then cropped to a circle, so the corners go too.
Small short side
A panorama can be 4,000 px wide and only 800 px tall. A square crop keeps about 800 px of that width, and a 196 px phone frame may still enlarge a small source.
Another encode
A low-quality JPG adds compression before Facebook stores its copy. A clean PNG or a high-quality JPG keeps more detail.
What users report. In an r/facebook thread from 2026-04-30, “Facebook blurring photos I am uploading Is there a way to stop it??” (t3_1t0aml4), the poster says photos that look fine on the phone turn blurry after upload. A reply with two upvotes says cropping the photo “to be the size of the square it would be on Facebook” produced a clear upload; other replies report the same result, and one asks for the exact size. This is user experience, not a Facebook rule.
- Crop to 1:1 around the face first. The square frame no longer has to choose which sides to remove.
- Keep at least 320 px. Export a 1080 × 1080 master when the source has the pixels. The Page recommendation is 320; 1080 is this page’s master choice.
- Keep the face inside the circle. The corners of the square disappear in the circular crop.
320 × 320 = 102,400 px · 1080 × 1080 = 1,166,400 px
1080 ÷ 320 = 3.375 · 1,166,400 ÷ 102,400 = 11.39
Crop a square profile picture
Choose a static PNG or JPG. The tool crops a 1:1 square in this browser, shows the circular display shape, and exports the same crop at 320 × 320 or 1080 × 1080 in PNG or JPG. Nothing is uploaded or stored.
YOUR EXPORT
Actual encoded pixels
Choose an image to begin.
No image loaded.
The circle is the display shape. The downloaded file stays square.
320 × 320
The Page recommendation for best quality. Use it when a workflow asks for 320.
1080 × 1080
3.375× the linear size. A larger source for the same crop; not a Facebook value.
What the encoded file shows
- Choose a static PNG or JPG to read back the encoded file.
Tool limits and the circle
Accepted inputs are static PNG and JPG. The 25 MiB input cap and 40,000,000-pixel cap are this tool’s limits. A GIF is rejected by file signature before decoding so one frame is never flattened silently. The 320 and 1080 canvases are local export choices. The circle changes only the preview; every download remains a square file.
Official source: Facebook Help Center: Facebook Page profile picture and cover photo dimensions — read 2026-11-06 (UTC). Personal-profile values: Your Profile Picture and Cover Photo — Not stated. Community summary: fb-answers, labelled “Summarized by Meta AI”. The 320 and 1080 canvases, the 1:1 crop, the circle preview and the 25 MiB and 40,000,000-pixel limits are this site’s choices. The tool reports the file it encodes; Facebook’s upload screen controls acceptance and cropping.
What Facebook does not publish
The personal-profile Help Center page read here leaves these values open. The table repeats “Not stated” instead of importing a number from a resizer or a design template.
| Value | Status | What the page read gives | Official page | Read (UTC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal profile picture pixels | Not stated | Steps to add, change or delete a picture | Your Profile Picture and Cover Photo | 2026-11-06 |
| File-size limit | Not stated | No byte value | Your Profile Picture and Cover Photo | 2026-11-06 |
| Accepted formats | Not stated | No format list | Your Profile Picture and Cover Photo | 2026-11-06 |
| Minimum size | Not stated | No pixel floor | Your Profile Picture and Cover Photo | 2026-11-06 |
One practical consequence: this page reports the encoded file’s pixels, type and bytes. It shows no platform-limit pass badge because the personal-profile page publishes no limit to compare against.
Questions
What is the Facebook profile picture size?
A Page profile picture should be 320 × 320 px for best quality, according to the Help Center page read on 2026-11-06. Facebook does not publish a pixel size for a personal profile picture on the Help Center page read here.
Is 170 × 170 the Facebook profile picture size?
No. The Page dimensions page gives 176 × 176 for a computer, 196 × 196 for a smartphone and 36 × 36 for a feature phone. A community summary repeats 170 × 170 for a personal-profile desktop display; that number is labelled community on this page.
Why are there two desktop numbers, 176 and 170?
They describe different scopes. 176 × 176 is the Page display value in Facebook’s Help Center. 170 × 170 is the personal-profile value in a community Q&A summary. The six-pixel gap is smaller than the source difference.
Why does my profile picture look blurry after upload?
Start with the source pixels and the crop. A non-square photo loses pixels to a square frame and then to the circle. A small short side may be enlarged by the phone frame. A low-quality JPG adds compression artifacts. File size alone does not explain the softness.
Does a smaller file size prevent blur?
Shrinking the bytes does not add pixels. A 200 KB, 1080 × 1080 image can look cleaner than a 2 MB, 200 × 200 image. Check the pixel dimensions first, then choose a sensible quality setting.
Is 1080 × 1080 an official Facebook size?
No. It is this page’s high-resolution master canvas. It has 3.375 times the linear resolution of 320 and 11.39 times the pixel count, which gives the crop more headroom. Facebook publishes no personal-profile pixel size on the page read here.
PNG or JPG for a profile picture?
PNG is lossless and suits text, logos, flat colour and transparency. JPG is lossy and suits photographs; it is usually smaller and has no transparency. The personal-profile page read lists no accepted formats, so this is a local choice.
Does Facebook crop profile pictures to a circle?
The Page dimensions page says the Page profile picture is cropped to a circle. The personal-profile page read here gives no crop rule. The tool’s circle is a local preview; the downloaded file stays square.
Does this tool upload my image?
No. Decoding, cropping, encoding and file readback happen in this browser. The page has no image-upload endpoint and stores nothing after you close it.
Sources and evidence limits
- Facebook Help Center: Facebook Page profile picture and cover photo dimensions — read 2026-11-06 (UTC) without a login. Page profile picture: 320 × 320 px best quality; displays at 176 × 176 on computers, 196 × 196 on smartphones and 36 × 36 on most feature phones; cropped to a circle.
- Facebook Help Center: Your Profile Picture and Cover Photo — read 2026-11-06 (UTC) without a login. Gives add, change and delete steps only. Personal-profile pixels, ratio, displayed size, file-size limit, formats and pixel range are Not stated.
- facebook.com/fb-answers/what-size-are-profile-pictures/ — read 2026-11-06 (UTC). The page labels itself “Summarized by Meta AI” and draws on user posts. It gives 320 × 320, 1:1, a 170 × 170 desktop display and a 180 px short-side floor. All four are treated as a community summary.
- Reddit r/facebook, “Facebook blurring photos I am uploading Is there a way to stop it??” — posted 2026-04-30, thread t3_1t0aml4. The poster describes blurry uploads; replies describe cropping to the displayed square as a fix and ask for the exact size. Quoted as user experience.
- The 320 and 1080 canvases, the 1:1 crop, the circle preview, the 3.375× and 11.39× comparisons, and the 25 MiB and 40,000,000-pixel limits are this site’s calculations or choices.
- Not tested: a logged-in Facebook upload, Facebook’s resize or compression, the displayed avatar size on any device, or acceptance of a particular file. The local tool reports the file it encodes.
Other Facebook and profile-picture tools
Working on a cover photo? Read the Facebook cover photo size guide, which also repeats the Page avatar display values. Comparing platforms? Open the Instagram profile picture size guide or the full tool list.