Manage visibility settings for private contributions and achievements

Show anonymized activity from private and internal repositories.

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Changing the visibility of your private contributions

  1. In the top right corner of GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Your profile.

    Screenshot of the dropdown menu under @octocat's profile picture. "Your profile" is outlined in dark orange.

  2. Above the contribution calendar, click Contribution settings.

    Screenshot of the "Contribution settings" link, highlighted with a dark orange outline.

  3. Click Private contributions to show or hide private contributions on your profile.

Changing the visibility of achievements

  1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Settings.
  2. Under "Profile settings", select or deselect Show Achievements on my profile.
  3. Click Update preferences.

Hiding an individual achievement on your profile

You can hide an individual achievement on your profile. When hidden, badges are only visible to you.

  1. In the top right corner of GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Your profile.

    Screenshot of the dropdown menu under @octocat's profile picture. "Your profile" is outlined in dark orange.

  2. Under "Achievements", click the achievement you want to hide.

    Screenshot of the "Achievements" section of a user profile. A badge with a cowboy image is highlighted with a dark orange outline.

  3. Click .

    Screenshot of an achievement. An open eye icon is highlighted with a dark orange outline.

Next steps

For more information about contribution visibility, see Profile contributions reference.