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Origin How-Tos: View & Manage Your Profile


Last week, we showed you how to view the profiles of your friends, and your friends’ friends. This week, we’ll focus on how to edit your own profile, control who sees it, and (if needed—sigh) block, unfriend, or report another user.

To see your own profile, sign in to Origin and click on your username or avatar in the top right corner, above the search box. This will bring up your profile as viewable to others, including your name, status, your friends, and the games in your library. Click the Edit My Profile button below your avatar to change your avatar, password, Origin ID, and first and last name associated with your Origin profile. You can also change your status (online, away, or invisible) by selecting Set Status from the Friends menu in the top left (or by clicking underneath your name in the Friends List itself).

Control who can see your full profile (everyone, friends, friends of friends, or no one) by selecting the Privacy tab in the Settings window. If for whatever reason you’d like to block a user from ever finding you or viewing your profile on Origin, scroll down to the Block User section of the same Privacy tab, enter the person you’d like to block’s email or Origin ID, and click the Block button.

Your Friends List will be the place where you unfriend someone (for example, if your Friends List gets full and you need to unfriend an inactive player to make room for a new request) or block someone who’s already your friend (if you want to prevent them from either viewing your profile or receiving any notifications about your activity on Origin). Pull up your Friends List by selecting the Show Friends List button in the top right corner, above the search box. Right-clicking on any friend’s name will display the option to either “Unfriend” or “Block” that user.

Alternatively, you can right-click any friend’s name on your Friends List and select View Profile to show their full profile. Here, you’ll see Unfriend, Block, and Report User (in serious cases where you feel compelled to report any suspicious activity), all as options.

Posted by Christine Choi on December 18, 2012
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kagard
January 1, 2013
In all of my games that have Origin on my iPad and iPhone, I can log in, view my profile, accept invites, but when I want to add someone, it freezes, crashes the game I'm in and just won't add. It attempts to, but just says "results loading" but they never load. Can someone help with this? My origin I'd is kagard

Thanks!
Kathy

Kagard@yahoo.com
EA_OneLetter
January 4, 2013
Hello kagard,

For any troubleshooting inquiries, we recommend you contact our Customer Support, located at https://help.ea.com/contact-us. A representative will be able to work with you to correct your issue.
fishass
March 25, 2013
at least you can get to a profile page.
i get an error page and a link directing me to a metal distributors.

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