
You have a few settings available in Teams to customize how it looks and works.
Change Your Profile Picture
You can change your profile picture that other Teams users will see.
- Click your profile picture in the top right.
- Select Change picture.
A larger thumbnail of your current profile picture appears, with options to upload a new picture or to remove the current one.
- Select Upload picture.
- Select a new profile picture.
- Click Open.
The preview thumbnail updates to use the newly uploaded picture.
- Click Save.
- Click Close.
Your profile picture is updated for Teams, and the rest of your Office 365 apps as well.
Change Teams Application Settings
Teams’ Settings window includes a variety of settings options that allow you to customize how Teams looks and works.
- Click your profile picture in the top right.
- Select Settings.
The Settings window opens. Several different categories are listed on the left.
- General contains general settings, including the appearance theme, language settings, and application settings.
- Privacy lets you select priority access contacts and toggle whether to send read receipts when you view messages.
- Notifications controls what type of notifications you’ll see.
- Devices allows you to set audio and video devices used in meetings and calls.
- Permissions sets what information apps added to Teams can access.
- Calls controls how incoming calls are handled, how your voicemail functions, and lets you change your ringtone.
- Select a settings category.
That category’s settings will appear in the right pane.
- Change the available settings.
As you update settings, they’re automatically saved.
- Click Close.
The new settings are in place.
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