# Event and property display names

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By default, an event's display name in Amplitude data matches the ingested name. These names can be difficult to read, understand, and incorporate directly into your analyses. To address this, you can give your events and user properties new display names that offer an easy-to-read description of their purpose and content.

> **Note:**
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> This only applies to active events and user properties added to your tracking plan, and doesn't apply to custom events. It changes the display name of the event or property within the Amplitude UI and doesn't change the raw data.

## Change the display name for an event

You can update an event type's display name directly from the _Events_ screen. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Click _Events_ in Amplitude Data’s left-hand rail.
2. Click the event name.
3. Type the new display name for the event.

## Change the display name for a user property

You can update a user property's display name from the _User Properties_ tab on the _Properties_ screen. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Click _Properties_ in Amplitude Data’s left-hand rail and open the _User Properties_ tab.
2. Click the property name to open the details panel.
3. Click the property name in the panel and enter a display name.

## Update an event's visibility

Hide events from appearing in areas of Amplitude where you don't want them. For example, you can hide noisy events from your user stream to make the data that appears more useful.

Support for updating an event's visibility depends on the event type.

| Event type | Editable? | Where to edit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Default events | Must be in the tracking plan, and have `Modify` enabled. | Table menu, table row, side panel. |
| Transformed events | Yes. Hiding from event streams isn't supported. | Side panel |
| Live events | Yes | Table menu, table row, side panel. |
| Planned events | No |  |
| Unexpected events | No |  |
| Blocked events | Yes | Table menu, table row, side panel. |
| Deleted events | No |  |

To update an event's visibility:

1. Navigate to _Data > Events_.
2. Select the events you want to update.
3. In the menu that appears at the top of the table, click **Edit visibility** and select the areas where you don't want the selected events to appear.