Updating your own Personal Information takes a few clicks in Lightning Experience. This walkthrough covers the standard self-service path plus the related Language and Time Zone page, which holds settings many users forget are part of their personal profile.
- Open your personal settings
Click your profile avatar in the top right of any Salesforce page, then choose Settings. This opens your own settings area, not org-wide Setup.
- Find the Personal Information page
In the left sidebar, type Personal Information in the Quick Find box and click the matching result. The editable form for your account appears.
- Edit and save your details
Update your name, phone, email, address, or work fields as needed, then click Save. Changes apply to your user record immediately.
- Adjust language and time zone
Back in Quick Find, open Language and Time Zone. Set your Time Zone, Locale, and Language, then save so dates, formats, and timestamps match where you work.
Holds name, alias, email, phone, address, title, company, and division for your own account.
Controls Time Zone, Locale, Language, and Email Encoding, which shape how Salesforce displays text, dates, and numbers for you.
Set on the User object per profile or permission set; decides which personal fields a user can actually edit versus only view.
- The Personal Information page never exposes admin fields like Profile, Role, or License, so users cannot self-assign access there.
- If a self-service field will not save, the cause is almost always read-only field-level security on the User object, not the page layout.
- Accessing personal settings is not supported on Lightning Experience in iPad Safari; use a desktop browser instead.
- Admins who cannot edit their own user record usually have a missing edit permission, not a platform bug; check permissions and reload.