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Your Google profile picture appears in all kinds of places. For example, when yous leave a Google review or send someone an email in Gmail, people will see your profile picture. Here's how you can change information technology.

How to Modify Your Google Profile Picture on Your Computer

To change your Google profile pic on your Mac, Windows, or Linux PC, open whatever browser, visit Gmail, and and then log into your account. Click your "Profile Picture" in the top-right corner of the window.

Click your "Google Profile Picture" in Gmail.

In the carte du jour that appears, click the camera icon next to your profile movie.

The "Select Profile Photo" window will appear. Here, you tin can upload a photograph from your local machine using the "Upload Photos" tab by dragging and dropping a photo. You tin can likewise click the "Select a Photograph From Your Reckoner" button and choose a photo from your computer's file browser.

Or, yous can choose an prototype from your Google Photos anthology using the "Your Photos" tab.

Select a photo by using the "Upload Photos" or "Your Photos" tab.

Next, click and drag the handles on each corner of the box to ingather your profile flick. The areas of the paradigm that aren't highlighted will be removed. You can besides rotate your motion-picture show by clicking the "Left" and "Correct" buttons to the correct of your motion picture.

Rotate and click and drag the four handles to crop the new profile picture.

Finally, click the "Set as Profile Photo" button in the bottom-left corner of the window.

Click the "Set as Profile Photo" button.

Your new Google profile moving-picture show is set. It may accept a few moments for the change to reflect across all Google apps.

How to Change Your Google Profile Film on Your Mobile Device

To change your Google profile picture on your mobile device, you'll need to take the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad, or Android installed.

Open the Gmail app and tap your "Profile Pic" in the top-right corner of the screen.

Tap your "Profile Picture" in the Gmail app.

Next, tap the "Camera Icon" that appears adjacent to your profile photo.

On the side by side screen, tap "Change."

Tap the "Change" button.

Now yous can choose a new photo by choosing either "Have Photo," which opens your photographic camera for yous to have a new photo, or "Choose From Photos," which opens your phone'southward photo album.

Tap "Take Photo" or "Choose From Photos."

Once you've selected a photo, you tin can crop the selected photo by pinching or spreading two fingers on your screen to zoom in or out, respectively. The area of the epitome that's not highlighted will exist removed.

Tap "Choose" when fix.

Crop your new photo and tap the "Choose" button.

Your Google profile photo is at present updated. It may take some fourth dimension for the update to reverberate across all Google apps.

That's all at that place is to updating your Google profile photograph. If you're curious nigh which images y'all've previously used as a contour pic, y'all can cheque the "Profile Photos" album in your Google Photos Anthology Annal.

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