Account settings & preferences

To change your profile photo, you'll need to be using Notion for desktop or web and follow these steps:

1. Go to Settings in your sidebar → {your name}.

2. Select your current photo or your initial above Add photo.

3. Choose the file you want to use from your device and click Open.

To change your preferred name in Notion:

1. Go to Settings in your sidebar → {your name}.

2. Under Preferred name, enter the name you want to use.

To change your email address:

1. Go to Settings in your sidebar → {your name}.

2. Under Account security, click Change email.

3. From here:

   • If you have a Notion password set, enter it.

   • If you don’t have a Notion password, we’ll send a verification code to your old email. Enter this into Notion.

4. Enter your new email address and click Send verification code. We’ll send a verification code to your new email.

5. Copy the verification code sent to your new email address, paste it into Notion, and click Change email.

If you want to log into Notion using a permanent password instead of temporary login codes:

1. Go to Settings in your sidebar → {your name}.

2. Select Set a password.

3. Enter a password that meets the security requirements and confirm it. Passwords must be at least eight characters long, with at least three special characters, one letter, and one number.

If you want to change or remove your password:

1. Go to Settings in your sidebar → {your name}.

2. Select Change password.

3. Enter a new password and select Change password, or select Remove password.

If you forgot your password, follow the instructions to reset it here →

Learn more about two-step verification here →

Learn more about passkeys here →

Learn more about deleting your account here →

Learn more about logging out of all your devices here →

To customize Notion's appearance on desktop:

1. Go to Settings in your sidebar → Preferences.

2. Open the dropdown next to Appearance and select one of the following options:

   • Use system setting to follow your system appearance setting.

   • Light to display light mode.

   • Dark to display dark mode.

3. You can also turn dark mode on or off anytime with the shortcut cmd/ctrl + shift + L.

To customize Notion's appearance on mobile:

1. Open the sidebar by tapping the ••• in the top corner.

2. Tap Settings and scroll to the Appearance section.

3. Open the dropdown and select one of the following options:

   • Use system setting to follow your system appearance setting.

   • Light to display light mode.

   • Dark to display dark mode.

If you're on web and you want any links to Notion pages to open in your desktop app:

1. Go to Settings in your sidebar → Preferences.

2. Toggle on Open links in desktop app.

You'll need to have the desktop app already installed. You’ll also need to go to Notion in your desktop app and ensure that Open links in browser is turned off in your settings.

If links to Notion pages aren't automatically opening in the desktop app, try following these steps:

1. Open the link in your browser.

2. Click ••• at the top right of the page. Scroll to the bottom of the menu that appears and click Open in Mac app.

To change your display language:

1. Go to Settings in your sidebar → Preferences.

2. Under Language & Time, open the dropdown next to Language.

3. Select your language.

Calendars in Notion will use Sunday or Monday as the first day of the week, depending on your region. That includes the date picker for reminders and calendar databases. If you prefer, you can change this manually. To do this:

1. Go to Settings in your sidebar → Preferences.

2. Under Language & Time, toggle on or off Start week on Monday.

To change your time zone:

1. Go to Settings in your sidebar → Preferences.

2. Under Language & Time, set your time zone manually or turn on Automatically update time zone.

If you’re using Notion’s desktop app, you can manage settings for the app by going to Settings in your sidebar → Preferences.

• Open the dropdown next to On startup to choose Continue where you left off, which will open the tabs you had open right before you last closed the app. Alternatively, you can choose Your default page if you’d like to start with the same page every time.

• If you want to use Command Search, which allows you to quickly search in Notion while you’re in another app, turn on Use Command Search. Once this setting is turned on, you can also turn on