Account settings
Your profile page
Your Medium profile page is a place where people can find all your published stories, and where they can follow you to find all your new stories on their homepage.
The sections in this article
Viewing your profile page
Editing your profile name, photo, and bio
Customize your profile page
Changing your background and highlighting colors
To change your fonts
Customize the title of your profile
Blogroll
Adjust email preferences
Adjust email preferences
Your settings page allows you to change your email address, and to change your email notifications.Type email notifications
Medium Digest: The best Medium stories customized based on your interests, as well as outstanding stories selected by our editors
Recommended Stories: Featured stories, columns, and collections we think you’ll enjoy based on your reading history
Edition: Our members-only newsletter for hand-picked stories to stay informed, sensible, and enjoyable
Emails from the authors you follow: Emails from the authors you follow
Emails from the following letters: Alert from the following publications
Newspapers: Letters from book editors
Public Notices: Notifications when someone follows you or highlights a similar role in a story
Mention notifications: Notifications when people comment on their stories on
Medium
Notifications on your news: Notifications when people respond, leave notes, or respond to your news; emails from Medium maintainers and editors, and publish editors; and statistics on your stories
Writing updates and announcements: Updates on any new features or changes in Medium writing, including regular updates from the Partner
Program
Extensions from the editorial team: Extensions from the middle editorial team
New Product Features in Medium: Updates on any product modifications to Medium, moderate use tips, and invitations to participate in user research
Medium membership information: Member stories we think you might like, and more information to help you make the most of Medium
Connect communication accounts
You can link your Facebook, Twitter, Google, or Apple account with your Medium account. Doing so will allow you to sign in to your Medium account with that social account.
Privacy
Medium will never post anything to your social media account without your explicit permission.
Medium does not import contacts from your social network to Medium.Connect Facebook
IOS and Android desktop
On your homepage, click on your profile picture and then click Settings.
At the bottom of the link, click Connect to Facebook.
Authorize your Facebook account.
You cannot link a Facebook Page with your Medium account.
The URL of your profile page
Your Medium URL is a link to your public profile page in the format of yourname.medium.com, which you can share with others to read your latest news and follow you on Medium. To learn more about your profile page, see this article.Set your Medium domain for the first time
If you do not have a subdomain set up yet, you will be notified that you have set it up when you publish the story from your desktop computer. This feature is not supported on mobile applications.
If your existing Medium username has “.” or “_” in it, those will be automatically changed to the dash when you claim your domain.
What happens when you set up a new domain URL?
If you choose the same name for your domain as your old Medium @ username name, your old profile URL will redirect you to your new domain URL. account
