Update profilePhoto

Namespace: microsoft.graph

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.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

The following tables show the least privileged permission or permissions required to call this API on each supported resource type. Follow best practices to request least privileged permissions. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

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	Not supported.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

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

• Users with admin roles such as User 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:

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

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

To update a team photo:

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

To update a user's profile photo:

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

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	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 photo of a user

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

PUT https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/photo/$value
Content-type: image/jpeg

Binary data for the image

CLI

mgc users photo content put --user-id {user-id}

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const stream = Binary data for the image;

await client.api('/me/photo/$value')
	.put(stream);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Users

$params = Binary data for the image

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Set-MgUserPhotoContent -UserId $userId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the 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/v1.0/teams/172b0cce-e65d-44ce-9a49-91d9f2e8491e/photo/$value
Content-type: image/jpeg

Binary data for the image

CLI

mgc teams photo content put --team-id {team-id}

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const stream = Binary data for the image;

await client.api('/teams/172b0cce-e65d-44ce-9a49-91d9f2e8491e/photo/$value')
	.put(stream);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Teams

$params = Binary data for the image

Set-MgTeamPhotoContent -TeamId $teamId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content