Update Google Account Photo: Difference between revisions

Summary	How to update your Google
Author	Maintained by Jonathan King
Help	Get help with this article
Status	Up-to-date for the 2024-2025 school year.

Latest revision as of 11:33, 8 August 2024

We are updating every employee's Google Account photo to be the same as their new RCS ID photo. The Google Account photo shows up in the upper-right of your GMail window, and presents to recipients of your emails as well as in other locations. It might take up to a day for the change to be seen all over (due to browser caching and stuffs).

Things you want to ask right now

Gmail profile picture: Your name and profile picture can be viewed by other people who use Google services, including when you communicate or share content.

How often are you doing this: Just once per year. ID photos are taken in May/June and we update before school starts in August.

Can I change the picture to something else: We know you might not love your ID photo, or have some amazing photo of yourself to share :) Feel free to change the photo whenever you like, just make sure it identifies you to others.

GMail Settings --> General --> scroll down to My Picture --> Click on About Me

Add or change your profile picture

Sign in to your Google Account.
Under "Personal info," click Photo.
Upload a photo from your computer or choose one of your Google Photos.
Rotate and crop your photo as needed.
- Find steps to crop your photo with assistive technology below.
At the bottom left, click Save as profile picture.

I LOVE my current photo, don't replace it

Using the steps below, you can reset your photo to a former one, or save it for your own use.

From the next window you can choose to use or save a former profile photo.
Right-Click or Control-Click and choose Save Image As…
Save it

Find an old profile picture

You can find your old profile pictures in your Album Archive.

For more details

Click Here

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 We are updating every employee's Google Account photo to be the same as their new RCS ID photo. The Google Account photo shows up in the upper-right of your GMail window, and presents to recipients of your emails as well as in other locations. It might take up to a day for the change to be seen all over (due to browser caching and stuffs).
-=Things you want to ask right now=
+==Things you want to ask right now==
+;Gmail profile picture
+:Your name and profile picture can be viewed by other people who use Google services, including when you communicate or share content.
 ;How often are you doing this
-:Just once per year, after the ID photos are taken in September.
+:Just once per year. ID photos are taken in May/June and we update before school starts in August.
 ;Can I change the picture to something else
-:We know you might not love your ID photo, or have some amazing photo of yourself to share :) Feel free to change the photo whenever you like, just make sure it identifies you to others.
+:We know you might not love your ID photo, or have some amazing photo of yourself to share<span> </span>:) Feel free to change the photo whenever you like, just make sure it identifies you to others.
-;Are you doing student photos too
+*GMail Settings --> General --> scroll down to My Picture --> Click on [https://myaccount.google.com/profile About Me]
-:We are NOT planning to do this for students for privacy reasons.
-;How many Google photos of me are there
+==Add or change your profile picture==
-:Google is a bit sneaky, and actually has THREE places they store your photo. If they are all the SAME now, then they'll all change together during our update. We can update one which updates the other (Google+, but who uses that!?) but a third one is actually hiding in your GMail Settings and it's hit or miss whether our process updates it. If you need to change that one, go to:
-* GMail Settings --> General --> scroll down to My Picture --> Click on [https://myaccount.google.com/profile About Me]
-=I LOVE my current photo, don't replace it=
+*Sign in to your [https://myaccount.google.com/ Google Account].
-*Using the steps below, you can reset your photo to a former one, or save it for your own use.
+*Under "Personal info," click Photo.
+*Upload a photo from your computer or choose one of your Google Photos.
+*Rotate and crop your photo as needed.
+**Find steps to crop your photo with assistive technology below.
+*At the bottom left, click Save as profile picture.
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+==I LOVE my current photo, don't replace it==
-[[File:Google2.png|thumb|alt=|none]]
+*Using the steps below, you can reset your photo to a former one, or save it for your own use.[[File:Change Google Profile Pic-1.png|none|thumb]][[File:Change Google Profile Pic-2.png|none|thumb]][[File:Change Google Profile Pic-3.png|none|thumb]]<br />
 *From the next window you can choose to use or save a former profile photo.
 *Right-Click or Control-Click and choose Save Image As…
 *Save it
+==Find an old profile picture==
+*You can find your old profile pictures in your [https://get.google.com/albumarchive/ Album Archive].
+==For more details==
+*[https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/27442 Click Here]