Mind the circle
Corners of the square are hidden in chats. Keep faces and text inside the round guide; raise Extra room if they touch the edge.
Profile picture, full photo
Keep the whole picture in your profile photo. The square canvas and round guide show exactly what people will see, and the border is filled to match.
Drop a photo to uncrop
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Corners of the square are hidden in chats. Keep faces and text inside the round guide; raise Extra room if they touch the edge.
A soft blur or a color taken from the photo's edges looks natural at small sizes. Busy patterns distract from the face.
For wide group shots, Smart fill can add sky or background above and below so the whole group fits the square.
WhatsApp asks for a square image and shows it as a circle in chats. A tall or wide photo is cropped to a square first, and the corners are hidden by the circle.
Turn the photo into a square with a border here, keeping everything inside the round guide. When WhatsApp asks you to adjust the crop, the whole square already fits, so you can confirm it without losing anything.
Any square image works. We export 1080 x 1080, which stays sharp on large phones; WhatsApp resizes it when you upload.
Yes. They are also shown as circles from a square image, so the same square file works.
No. The photo is processed in your browser and never leaves your phone or computer.
Posting to the feed instead? Use Instagram no crop.