Add an animated profile picture to your Gmail by following simple steps. Enhance your email experience with a personalized touch using GIFs as profile images.

Once you've saved the illustration as your profile image, that picture will represent you in Google docs, Gmail, and anywhere else your profile picture displays.

Before today, your Gmail and Google Account profile images could be set independently of each other. Most people might have not been aware of this distinction, and Google is now combining them.

A new “Google Illustrations” tool lets you find and build a custom profile picture. Earlier this year, Google made it so that you can quickly change your profile picture from Gmail for Android.

To change your Google profile picture, click your current picture in the top-right corner of any Google page and select the camera icon.