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How to Customize Your Twitch Channel on a Mobile Device

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You might not always have access to a laptop or computer to edit your profile, you have information saved on your phone and can’t easily transfer it to your laptop or computer or lastly, you just want to change something quickly on your profile without starting up your computer. Luckily there is a way to customize your twitch channel and also your panels on your phone, which I’ll be explaining below.

How To Add Twitch Panels from a Mobile Phone

There used to be a very simple way to add panels to your twitch profile on your phone, sadly this has changed, but there is still a way to go about this. This means you will have to do the following.

  1. Step 1

    Go to your twitch dashboard on your phone, you do this by typing twitch.tv/dashboard in your web browser. It will ask you to log in, after you have logged in, you will see the following screen.

  2. Step 2

    stream manager twitch

    Now you will have to click on your profile picture in the upper right corner.

  3. Step 3

    dashboard Account settings

    Click on account settings and it will bring you to your profile settings. Do not click on channel, it will open up the twitch app, which is not what we want.

  4. Step 4

    dashboard profile settings web

    Once again, click on your profile picture in the upper right corner and now you can click on channel.

  5. Step 5

    dashboard Web menu

    When you click on channel it will bring you to your channel, it will now show up like you would see it if you go to twitch on your desktop.

  6. Step 6

    dashboard Home panels

    Go to your about section, this is where you would normally change your panels on your desktop.

  7. Step 7

    dashboard About tab

    Click on edit panels right under your bio and you will be able to edit your panels like you normally would.

  8. Step 8

    dashboard about Edit panel

    You can also move the panels around if you’re not satisfied with the position of the panels.

  9. Step 9

    Make sure to submit all of your changes and turn off the edit panels option.

How to Edit Your Twitch Profile from a Mobile Device

You can do this in two ways, either through the app, but it will have only limited options or through the settings in the web browser.

Twitch app

  1. Step 1

    Log into your account and click on your profile picture to open up the account menu.

  2. Step 2

    twitch Profile settings

    Click on account settings.

  3. Step 3

    twitch settings Account phone

    Click on the first tab that says “account.”

  4. Step 4

    twitch Account profile

    Next, you will have to click on edit profile and you will be able to change your profile picture, username, bio, and display name.

  5. Step 5

    twitch Edit profile

    Make sure to save all your changes and you have successfully changed the basics of your profile.

That’s how you change the basics of your profile, of course, you might want to change more than just these four options. For this, you will have to go back to your web browser on your phone.

Web browser

  1. Step 1

    Once again you will have to go to twitch.tv/dashboard, which will take you back to your stream manager. Here you can change your stream title and live notification.

  2. Step 2

    dashboard stream manager

    You can either click on your profile picture and choose account settings or click on the three bars in the upper left corner. Choose settings and then channel.

  3. Step 3

    dashboard profile settings web (1)

    Here you can change your profile picture, banner, username, display name, and bio.

  4. Step 4

    twitch dashboard Links

    If you click on “channel and videos” and scroll down, you will be able to change any social links you want to add to your profile.

  5. Step 5

    twitch dashboard banners

    If you scroll back up and go to “brand” you will be able to change your profile accent color, your profile banner, and your video player banner, for when you’re offline.

  6. Step 6

    twitch dashboard Schedule

    Lastly, you can update your schedule to what you will be doing for the next week. Just click on add stream and you will be able to choose your time, your title, and the day you want to stream.

  7. Step 7

    If you want to change an existing stream you have to click on the pen next to the title and if you want to delete it, then you click on the trashcan.

Conclusion

It might take some time, but you have now successfully customized your twitch channel on your phone. Now you can go and customize your channel from your phone or other mobile devices, such as a tablet, without needing access to a computer or laptop.

About the Author

Onyxia

Onyxia is a content creator college student from the Netherlands, who recently got into streaming. She loves to share her knowledge and love for writing and streaming with people and is also passionate about building an understanding and open-minded community.

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