To manage your personal settings, you must log into your Jira site. Public and anonymous users inherit the site’s default user preferences.
- Your personal settings let you customize some elements of Jira to your liking, including language, time zone, watch settings, and email type. For other settings, like your full name, avatar, password, and email address:
View and update your profile!
To view and edit your profile:
- Select your avatar or profile picture in the sidebar and choose Profile.
- Choose Edit profile.
- Update the relevant details and choose Save.
From your profile you can view and change your:
- Full name
- Nickname
- Job title
- Department
- Organization
- Location
- Time zone
Manage other profile details!
Account details like your avatar, profile picture, email address, and password are managed through your Atlassian account. To change these details:
- Select your avatar or profile picture in the sidebar and choose Profile.
- Choose Manage account.
- Update the relevant details and choose Save changes.
From the top right of your screen, select Your profile and settings 
Personal settings.
- Update the options in the Preferences section and choose Save changes.
You can update these options in personal settings:
- Language – Change your Jira application language to one of the available options.
- Your time zone – The time zone used for date and time information across your Jira applications. If the time zone you select doesn’t match your computer’s time zone, you’ll have the option to automatically update this preference.
- Watch your issues – With this enabled, you become a watcher of any issue that you create or comment on. This means you’ll get an email when someone updates or comments on the issue.
- Email notifications format – Email notifications can be sent in plain text or HTML.
- Notifications of your changes – Choose whether or not to receive email notifications about your own changes to issues.
- Email notification preferences – Choose in which situations you get email notifications. You can reduce the amount of email you get from Jira by unchecking notifications for certain situations.