Create profiles in Microsoft Edge to keep work, personal, and guest browsing separate and organised. Each profile has its own tabs, favourites, and logins—with syncing across devices. Work profiles can also apply your organisation’s security and productivity features, and each profile can be personalised with its own look and settings.
Profiles
Create profiles in Microsoft Edge to keep work, personal, and guest browsing separate and organised. Each profile has its own tabs, favourites, and logins—with syncing across devices. Work profiles can also apply your organisation’s security and productivity features, and each profile can be personalised with its own look and settings.
Tips and Tricks
Frequently asked questions
A profile in Edge lets you create a personalized browsing experience with separate bookmarks, history, passwords, and extensions.
When you launch Edge for the very first time, you’ll have the opportunity to sign in as part of the onboarding process. If you’ve already been using Edge, you can select the profile icon icon in the Edge toolbar and then select Set up a new profile.
You can find your profile icon in the top right corner of your Edge browser window. Click on it to learn more, switch profiles, etc.
It's really easy to set up a new profile – just click on your profile icon icon to get started. Select Set up a new profile, then choose between Personal or Work or school depending on your browsing preference.
Open icon Settings and in the Profile section select Profile preferences. Toggle on Automatically sign in to sites with your current work or school account.
You can either visit edge://settings/profiles or go to your icon Settings, then Profiles. Then, find the profile you want to remove, and click on the bin icon. This will delete its data from your device.
You can review and customise options involving automatic profile switching and more by visiting edge://settings/profiles/multiProfileSettings or by going to icon Settings, then Profiles, and finally selecting Profile preferences.
You can either visit edge://settings/profiles or go to icon Settings, then Profiles. Then, click on the pencil icon next to the profile you are currently using, and select an icon for your default picture or enter a new name for this profile to appear.
Note: You must switch to the profile you'd like to customise to see this option. Simply find the profile you'd like to customise at the bottom of this Profiles page within Settings and click on Switch to be able to customise your profile.
Yes, if you are signed into your Microsoft account, you can sync bookmarks, passwords, extensions, and more across devices that are also signed in. You can review and choose what is synced across your devices by going to icon Settings, then Profiles, and under the Profile settings section select Sync.
When browsing as a guest, the browsing data in this guest profile is kept separate from the other profiles set up on the device. This means that when the guest closes all their windows on the device, Microsoft Edge will save the files downloaded, but will not save the browsing history, the download history, or the cookies & site data.
No. Extensions are profile-specific, so you can install different sets of tools for work, personal, or guest browsing.
Absolutely! You can open multiple Edge windows, each with a different profile, and use them side-by-side.
- * Feature availability and functionality may vary by device type, market and browser version.