In this post, we will see how to change your Facebook Profile Picture without notifying anyone. You can follow the same procedure to change the Facebook Cover Photo too without sending notifications to your Friends.
Change Facebook Profile Picture without notifying anyone
If you just upload the photo and set it as a profile picture, it will always be set to “Public” and all the people who do not even have a Facebook account can see your profile picture. Now, let’s assume that you do not want to make others know about your profile picture change. In such a case first, log into your Facebook account and hover your mouse over your existing profile picture. You will see an option called Update Profile Picture. Click on it. If you have already uploaded the photo to Facebook, select it from the existing images. If you need to upload the image, click on Upload Photo button and upload the new image. After uploading, set it as your profile picture by following the screen option. As of now, whatever you have done, it will be shared with your Facebook friends automatically. More specifically, all the people (including you) would find an update like this-
If you do not want to show this update publicly or you want to change Facebook profile picture without notifying friends, you need to make this update “Private”. For that, click the globe sign visible next to the date/time and select Only me.
That’s all! Now no one except you can find the profile picture update.
Please note that you can also change the Cover photo privately using the same trick. Moreover, if you have a page with massive interactions or where people start liking and commenting within seconds after uploading a status, this trick might not be very effective. It would be if you can change the privacy quickly without spending much time. Plus do remember that if you are uploading a fresh image to set a profile picture, you need to make that status private alongside the “Profile picture change” update. Stay private, follow these best Facebook privacy settings.
