profiles and visibility
Choose what to share and understand profile moderation and rollout access.
Your public profile is optional. When profile access is available, use profile settings to choose its visibility and edit the people, description, location and links you want to share.
A public profile can identify you by username and can be linked from listings, events or reply emails when the relevant features and visibility rules allow it. During the rollout, viewing profiles requires an eligible signed-in account. Do not put information in a public profile that you only intend administrators to see.
Free-account profile changes may wait for moderation. Pending changes and the currently published profile are different; check the page's status before assuming an edit is live. Photo moderation is separate.
Turning off public visibility removes access through current profile and shared-album links. It does not remove messages, emails, screenshots or downloads someone already received. Changing your username also changes the name used in your profile URL.
The view count covers recorded views in the last 30 days. It is not a count of unique people or proof of who viewed your profile. Photo and album help explains their additional controls.