Thanks for the feedback all, the color picker is now available in the web vault if you want to review.
The color picker doesnât appear to be available for organizations.
Iâm putting my vote in for bare minimum the option to have Gravatar support, if not the ability to upload a pfp directly to the web vault. I donât understand why support for Gravatar had to be removed to add the color picker option?
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Iâm not a fan of external services like gravatar even tough it works really well.
Paid users already get 1GB of storage why not utilize a very small amount of that to store an avatar?
The main reason why I would love to have avatar support is because I have multiple accounts (different organisations that use Bitwarden) and the only way for me to distinguish between these accounts in the account switcher is by color. If we get avatar support I would put the company logo as an avatar in each account.
I already made the mistake to use the wrong logins (from the wrong bitwarden account) for ordering parts. Because the weakest link in security sits behind the keyboard I could go as far as saying that proper avatar support is not only an aestethic improvement but also a security improvement.
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- Please allow organizations to upload the logo.
I know Bitwarden is more about functionality, not bells and whistles. But the current look is slightly unprofessional, and may affect enterprise decision-makers:
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- Please add a corporate logo to each page of the web vault next to the userâs icon so the user never confuses corporate and private vault. Please have a look at how itâs done in Google Workspace Mail:
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I definitely would like support for profile pictures, whether itâs gravitar or just an uploaded profile pic. I think it looks unprofessional and incomplete with just initials.
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This is slightly annoying, but since the avatar is not even viewable in the browser extension (where I use BW the most by far), I must admit I forget this is even a thing⌠until I use the mobile app or web vault. These types of basic avatars always seem like a temporary placeholder, until user sets their own (and usually at sites that are not critical or used daily). The color picker has decreased my annoyance by 17-35%, depending on general irritability.
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Any update on this, both my profiles just have CH so other than the background colour itâs a pain to differentiate quickly between each of them. Let me set a custom avatar or a least manually change the letters?
@dotted-uncouple You can change the name associated with the account, and the avatar will use the initials based on the name.
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I have spent an ashamedly long amount of time trying to do this through both the desktop app and the browser extension. OF course the feature is supported on the web vault but not even mentioned/redirected on either of those. Thank you so much for your response that definitely helps out a little - still looking forward to uploading custom images to the avatar though
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Adding individual profile pictures for personal accounts and organizations would be a huge improvement when it comes to usability, especially when dealing with multiple client organizations, for example working at an agency.
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Hello! I came across this post through a Reddit thread I found, because I was looking into how come the password management profiles for Bitwarden do not have the option to upload custom photos. I just wanted to leave my feedback here, coming from a background of working as a tech consultant for enterprises. I just wanted to put it out there, that a lot of companies really do value the simplicity and at the very least the option to upload a simple profile icon. I was really surprised when I noticed that the option is missing from Bitwarden. I am becoming a big fan of the software, and am currently testing it for mass recommendation as an enterprise solution within my work network. I know it may seem small, but these little details really do matter and go a long way. I was wondering if the team could possibly look into this matter again, and simply add the option exactly as it is here in the community part of the bitwarden website, but for the password management side of the website if that makes sense. I would also personally appreciate it for my own things, as truly it feels like an incomplete experience without this option. The layout is already perfect as shown here in this screenshot from the community profile editor (attached here). In an enterprise environment, Gravatar is not required at all, but I am sure that it would make the average free user happy, and maybe even happy enough to follow through with a purchase of a premium plan! I hope the team will consider pushing this forward to the live servers. It would be amazing! Thank you for what you do Bitwarden Team. I am loving the experience so far with everything else in regards to functionality, ease of use, features, cross-platform ease, and everything else I have noted in my research thus far. This is really a minor issue, but big in the grand scheme of things so I understand why it has been forgotten, but I hope someone from the admin side of things finds this post, and pushes things along to incorporate this feature! From a developer perspective as well, technically it should be easy to implement as the same code can be applied since the feature exists already on this subdomain of the Bitwarden website. It would just need to be implemented from here in the community.bitwarden section to the vault.biwarden section of the .com website 
The feature uploaded in the screenshot is how I was able to customize my profile after all here, which is great since as Bitwarden users, everyone will always see their icons while using the browser extensions regardless of their platforms.
See here, on the vault.bitwarden.com side of things, the feature is lacking, despite it already existing here on community.bitwarden.com
In short, please do add the custom picture option! I would love to be able to fully recommend Bitwarden to my network, but since it is void from the live site, in the eyes of these CEOs, that tends to be a huge deduction of points in their eyes towards considering the tool, surprisingly enough. They may stick with it for awhile, but they eventually discard the tool in favor of a competitor over time. It is something I have noted while working in the industry for as long as I have. When I make recommendations to those in my network, I like to set them up with tools that last many many years. Setting up password managers for enterprise clients especially is cumbersome, so having these staple features as I call them, is very essential. Thanks again for reading!
@Shuckle, unfortunately, integrating code that does one thing in one project to another isnât usually as simple as it appears, else itâs usually already been done. Consider that this forum is an instance of GitHub - discourse/discourse at ed4791d0b018e8a1608d4912728e3438ce4148d8, which is 60% Ruby, whereas GitHub - bitwarden/server at e1bf8a92066d857473ef726b1f588d95eaeb2935 is 79.8% C#. To integrate this functionality would require a rewrite because of the language disparity, user storage consolidation requirements (Discourse stores user data differently to Bitwarden Server) and completely different GUIs.
Oh, maybe I misspoke then from my lesser point of view then. See, my web design experience is mostly in WordPress and Webflow where the web assets are usually housed in easier to copy and paste pieces that can be moved across subdomains. I assumed these two subdomains were made in a more traditional sense with direct coding, since the UI looks exactly the same. I figured maybe the same web designer may have helped with both, as they function almost identically from the userâs end from both sides. Either way though, the feature is not very large to build out. It already exists as a reference on the community subdomain, so it can definitely be analyzed and translated for use on the vault subdomain I would imagine, no? Maybe the admin team may know more, and they can advise accordingly to the development team. When there is a will, there is a way!
@Shuckle, itâs not lesser - Iâm no web developer, much less a full-stack server-and-client side website developer. However, thatâs much of my point - neither of us have the investigative ability to reasonably ascertain what work needs to be completed to implement this functionality.
Paragraphs of English donât translate to paragraphs of code (unless we intend to allow an LLM to run amok on their codebase).
There is definitely not a single designer designing either codebase, and as Iâve aforementioned, Discourse is 3rd-party software, entirely independent of Bitwarden. I expect that nobody at Bitwarden has contributed to Discourseâs development, especially not development of the relevant component (which rarely requires maintenance).
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If you mean client-side, thatâs true to a limited extent. This might not seem evident since they both utilize the DE-specific desktop portals (or, in the case of macOS, OS-specific file pickers) that current browsers implement, but thatâs not the purview of the website. All they ultimately call is:
<input type="file">I mention that because, I imagine, being a WordPress developer, that youâre used to CSS and HTML, but not JS?
If you look at the JS files served to the client by each URI (see the GET requests for JS in the browser console) they differ significantly, because the backends arenât common. The code that handles it on the other end shall differ too, to an extent that the commonalities are minor in comparison to the differences.
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If you refer to the UX of the GUI, then I suppose theyâre of a standard similarity that most purpose-built avatar pickers inherently adhere to, but that doesnât affect their underlying implementation, especially server-side.
@Shuckle Welcome to the forum!
As pointed out in Comment #9 of this thread, Bitwarden apps used to have Gravatar support until about a year ago. This functionality was deliberately removed in October 2023 to make possible implementation of the avatar color picker that is currently in use.
Furthermore, as already explained by @rokejulianlockhart, the Community Forum platform software (Discourse) is completely unrelated to Bitwardenâs software. Expecting Bitwarden (which uses Discourse as a service) to offer Discourse-like functionality in its own apps is like saying that it should be easy for Time magazine (which uses Wordpress as a service on its time.com site) to offer its readers the ability to publish personal blogs and websites.
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Oh I didnât know they had such a different back end, now I see what you guys were trying to say. I see what you mean.
I guess they could still use just the existing UI from the community section here, as reference, if they were to decide to implement the feature since the functionality feels great here in the community section. I enjoyed it. When I uploaded this picture of Shuckle, it felt as smooth as navigating the UI within Bitwarden itself.
That is why I was mistaken, thinking that they shared a back end because the UX was seamless between Bitwarden itself and this community area haha.
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I just think it would be a nice feature to have for paying clients of Bitwarden, as I have seen too often that owners abandon tools for silly missing features such as this. I would love to see it added for that reason. I believe it would not be too hard to implement, compared to most feature requests, and I just mean that in general based on the feature in question which is a standard profile icon picker. I understand what you guys are saying, how the community section here has a different underlying framework than Bitwarden itself. So, implementation is different despite both sharing a UI style. I just meant to say that, the designer(s) who may assist in pushing this feature forward, can use the communityâs UI as reference when implementing, helping with a huge part of the process. Coding is one thing, and designing is another. Usually different individuals/teams handle each part, when adding new features like this one.
In short, I just think it would be of benefit to add to reduce churn. It is a standard feature for SaaS, and it is already so close to having it. It almost felt misleading, when I was conducting my personal tests of all of Bitwardenâs features, to see there is no option for it when I went to customize my profile within Bitwarden.
Especially considering you see your initials and your selected color in the browser extension. It felt strange as a user, when going through the settings, only to find you can customize the icon, but only by picking different colors, and that is it. I have personally never really seen this type of feature in a SaaS. Profile pictures is always the default.