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Your Google contour pic appears in all kinds of places. For example, when y'all leave a Google review or send someone an email in Gmail, people volition see your contour picture. Here's how you tin can change it.

How to Alter Your Google Contour Picture on Your Computer

To change your Google profile picture on your Mac, Windows, or Linux PC, open up any browser, visit Gmail, and then log into your account. Click your "Contour Picture" in the pinnacle-right corner of the window.

Click your "Google Profile Picture" in Gmail.

In the menu that appears, click the camera icon adjacent to your profile moving-picture show.

The "Select Profile Photo" window will announced. Here, you can upload a photo from your local machine using the "Upload Photos" tab by dragging and dropping a photo. You lot can also click the "Select a Photo From Your Computer" button and cull a photo from your computer's file browser.

Or, y'all can choose an image from your Google Photos album using the "Your Photos" tab.

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

Side by side, click and drag the handles on each corner of the box to crop your profile flick. The areas of the epitome that aren't highlighted will be removed. Yous tin as well rotate your picture by clicking the "Left" and "Correct" buttons to the right of your moving picture.

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

Finally, click the "Prepare equally Contour Photo" button in the bottom-left corner of the window.

Click the "Set as Profile Photo" button.

Your new Google contour moving picture is prepare. It may take a few moments for the change to reverberate across all Google apps.

How to Change Your Google Profile Picture on Your Mobile Device

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

Open up the Gmail app and tap your "Profile Picture" in the top-correct corner of the screen.

Tap your "Profile Picture" in the Gmail app.

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

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

Tap the "Change" button.

At present yous can choose a new photograph by choosing either "Take Photo," which opens your camera for you to have a new photo, or "Cull From Photos," which opens your phone's photo album.

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

One time y'all've selected a photo, yous tin ingather the selected photo by pinching or spreading 2 fingers on your screen to zoom in or out, respectively. The area of the image that's non highlighted will be removed.

Tap "Choose" when ready.

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

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

That's all there is to updating your Google profile photo. If you're curious virtually which images you've previously used as a contour motion picture, you can cheque the "Profile Photos" album in your Google Photos Album Archive.

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