Add cover images to your work items

[#1]

We’re excited to announce a highly requested feature: the ability to add cover images to your work items. This will start rolling out in January 2026.

What’s changing

Now you can personalize your work items by adding a cover image that reflects your team’s identity, highlights important work, or simply adds a bit of fun and visual flair to your workspace. Whether it’s your team logo, a product icon, or a memorable photo, cover images help make your boards and work items more engaging and easier to scan.

How does it work?

• Add a cover image to any work item from More actions (…) in the work item, or from the More actions (…) menu on a card in the board view.
• Once added, your cover image will appear on both the board card and at the top of the work item itself.

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Our goal is to make managing projects in Jira a seamless and enjoyable experience. Stay tuned for more updates, and let us know your feedback.

— The Jira Product Team

[Yatish Madhav]

This is awesome - thanks @Sahibi Miranshah ! Looking forward to this on our instance!

Random question, is Trello going to be decommisstioned at some point? :)

Thanks

Yatish

[Dave Mathijs]

Hi @Sahibi Miranshah I took the liberty of looking up the related suggestions in JAC to see if it actually is a "highly requested feature":

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-91115 > 27 votes
• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-85946 > 0 votes

I have the same question as @Yatish Madhav .

[Brita Moorus]

That's a cute new feature! ✨

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Sahibi Miranshah 

Thank you for this information.  I have a couple of questions about this feature:

1. What can you disclose about the team's performance testing of this feature?
2. Can it be completely disabled at a Jira site and / or space level?

I recall when such cover images were added to Team-managed spaces, performance issues during scrolling / page draw led to challenges.  Here is an example defect for that symptom, which was timed-out rather than fixed: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-85601

Kind regards,
Bill

[Susan Hauth _Jira Queen_]

@Sahibi Miranshah , cute feature.  I'm on release tracks, how did this slip into my production environment without it being in the release notes?  This is very annoying to only find out about these features via articles.