Choose how you're represented in Teams meetings with a wide range of body shapes, facial features, and fine-tuning options. Then select your favorite hair styles, wardrobe, make-up options, and more. Save up to three avatars for different meeting types such as casual, professional, or day-to-day.

Avatars for Teams are currently available on the Teams desktop app for Windows and Mac, and are view-only on the Teams mobile app. For more information, see Avatars for Teams release notes. Avatars for Microsoft Teams add a new layer of choice to your meetings.

Use the Xbox Avatar Editor app to create or edit your avatar.

User navigates to a SharePoint Online page that holds a placeholder for a modern user photo object. The user photo is evaluated against the information stored in the User Profile for that user. For new users or users whose photo timestamp is older than 24 hours, a sync request is made.

Animate your avatar with emotes to convey your feelings and emotions in Teams meetings. With avatars, you can establish better emotional connections with meeting participants without turning on your camera. Select your contextual emotes from a set of familiar emojis, and see your avatar animate with the same emotes and gestures.

To see a profile card in Outlook mobile, tap a person's picture. To see the profile card in other apps, hover or click the person's photo or name. To see your own profile card, select your own profile picture. The profile card is also sometimes referred to as a contact card or people card. Here's an example of the card in Outlook on the web:

Find a photo you want to use and store it on your computer, OneDrive, or other location you can get to. The photo needs to be smaller than 4 MB and can be a .png, jpg, or .gif file. Select the circle in the upper right hand corner of the page that shows your initials or an icon of a person.

Learn how to use sign language avatars in a video in Clipchamp.

Learn about accessibility features in Clipchamp and how to use them to make the videos more accessible.

To hide your picture, click Hide my picture, then click OK. Selecting Hide my picture removes your photo from your Lync display, but it may not prevent your picture from displaying in programs outside of Lync. To remove the picture from other programs as well: Click Edit or Remove Picture.