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Your Google profile motion picture appears in all kinds of places. For case, when you leave a Google review or ship someone an email in Gmail, people will run into your contour film. Here's how you can change it.

How to Alter Your Google Profile Moving-picture show on Your Figurer

To alter your Google profile picture on your Mac, Windows, or Linux PC, open up whatsoever browser, visit Gmail, so log into your account. Click your "Profile Picture" in the meridian-right corner of the window.

Click your "Google Profile Picture" in Gmail.

In the menu that appears, click the camera icon next to your contour picture show.

The "Select Contour 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 tin also click the "Select a Photo From Your Figurer" push button and choose a photo from your computer's file browser.

Or, you lot tin 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.

Next, click and drag the handles on each corner of the box to ingather your profile picture show. The areas of the epitome that aren't highlighted will be removed. You can also rotate your picture by clicking the "Left" and "Right" buttons to the right of your picture.

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

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

Click the "Set as Profile Photo" button.

Your new Google profile pic is prepare. It may take a few moments for the change to reverberate beyond all Google apps.

How to Change Your Google Profile Picture on Your Mobile Device

To change your Google contour flick on your mobile device, you'll need to have the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad, or Android installed.

Open up the Gmail app and tap your "Profile Flick" in the peak-right corner of the screen.

Tap your "Profile Picture" in the Gmail app.

Side by side, tap the "Photographic camera Icon" that appears adjacent to your profile photo.

On the next screen, tap "Change."

Tap the "Change" button.

Now you can choose a new photo by choosing either "Accept Photo," which opens your camera for you to take a new photo, or "Choose From Photos," which opens your phone's photograph anthology.

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

Once you've selected a photo, you can crop the selected photo by pinching or spreading 2 fingers on your screen to zoom in or out, respectively. The area of the epitome that's not highlighted will be removed.

Tap "Choose" when ready.

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

Your Google contour photo is now updated. It may take some time for the update to reflect across all Google apps.

That's all there is to updating your Google profile photo. If you're curious well-nigh which images you lot've previously used as a contour motion-picture show, yous can cheque the "Profile Photos" anthology in your Google Photos Anthology Archive.

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