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title Update profilePhoto
description Update the photo for any user in the tenant, including the signed-in user, or the specified group or contact or team.
ms.localizationpriority medium
author kevinbellinger
ms.subservice people
doc_type apiPageType
ms.date 11/14/2024

Update profilePhoto

Namespace: microsoft.graph

[!INCLUDE beta-disclaimer]

Update the photo for the specified contact, group, team, or user in a tenant. The size of the photo you can update to is limited to 4 MB.

You can use either PATCH or PUT for this operation.

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Permissions

To update the profile photo of a contact

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) Contacts.ReadWrite Not supported.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Contacts.ReadWrite Not supported.

To update the profile photo of a group

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) ProfilePhoto.ReadWrite.All Group.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application ProfilePhoto.ReadWrite.All Group.ReadWrite.All

To update the profile photo of a team

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) TeamSettings.ReadWrite.All Group.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application TeamSettings.ReadWrite.All Group.ReadWrite.All

To update the profile photo of a user

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) ProfilePhoto.ReadWrite.All User.ReadWrite, User.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) User.ReadWrite Not supported.
Application ProfilePhoto.ReadWrite.All User.ReadWrite.All

Note

  • Permissions marked with * are supported only for backward compatibility. Please update your solutions to use an alternative permission and avoid using these permissions going forward.
  • Users with admin roles such as User admins, Global admins, or People admins can update the photo of any user in the organization by using delegated permissions. This operation is also supported with application permissions. Updating the photo of any user in the organization requires ProfilePhoto.ReadWrite.All or User.ReadWrite.All permission. Updating the photo of the signed-in user only requires User.ReadWrite permission.
  • Updating a user's photo using the Microsoft Graph API is currently not supported in Azure AD B2C tenants.

HTTP request

To update a contact's profile photo:

PATCH /me/contacts/{id}/photo/$value
PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contacts/{id}/photo/$value
PATCH /me/contactfolders/{contactFolderId}/contacts/{id}/photo/$value
PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contactfolders/{contactFolderId}/contacts/{id}/photo/$value

PUT /me/contacts/{id}/photo/$value
PUT /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contacts/{id}/photo/$value
PUT /me/contactfolders/{contactFolderId}/contacts/{id}/photo/$value
PUT /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contactfolders/{contactFolderId}/contacts/{id}/photo/$value

To update a group photo:

PUT /groups/{id}/photo/$value

To update a team photo:

PUT /teams/{id}/photo/$value

To update a user's profile photo:

PUT /me/photo/$value
PUT /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/photo/$value

Request headers

Header Value
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type e.g., image/jpeg. Required.

Request body

In the request body, include the binary data of the photo.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code or a 204 No Content response code for updating the photo of a team.

Examples

Example 1: Update the profile photo of a user

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

PUT https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/photo/$value
Content-type: image/jpeg

Binary data for the image

JavaScript

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

PowerShell

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Example 2: Update the photo of a team

Request

The following example shows a request to update a team photo.

HTTP

PUT https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/teams/172b0cce-e65d-44ce-9a49-91d9f2e8491e/photo/$value
Content-type: image/jpeg

Binary data for the image

JavaScript

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

PowerShell

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content