How to Make Your Facebook Profile Picture a Video

Facebook is rolling out a new feature that lets you set a short, GIF-like looping video as your profile picture, the company announced Wednesday.

The new feature is rolling out slowly, Facebook says, so you might not get it right away. The company also said it’s coming to iPhone users first, so Android owners should sit tight a bit longer.

Here’s how to set your Facebook profile picture as a video, if you have the feature:

1. Open the Facebook app on your iPhone.
2. Hit the “More” button in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
3. The first thing on the list that appears should be your name. Tap it to go to your profile.
4. Tap your current profile picture.
5. Here’s the moment of truth. In the menu that appears, you’ll either see the option to “Take a New Profile Video,” or it’ll say “coming soon.” If you’ve got the option, you can go ahead and record a short video to use as your profile video, or upload one you’ve already taken.

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And that’s it. We look forward to all the creative ways people use the new feature!

This Is What Your Facebook Profile Looked Like Over the Last 11 Years

The Original Facebook Group Page, 2004. Before people realized how awesome pictures are.

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Facebook Profile Page, 2005. Back when Facebook looked a little bit like MySpace.

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Facebook Profile Page Facelift, 2005. The "the" is finally dropped.

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Facebook Profile Page, 2006. You no longer need to be reminded "this is you" at the top of your profile page.

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Facebook Profile Page, 2007. Every profile update still had to begin with "is," forcing you to talk about yourself in the third person.

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Facebook Profile Page, 2008. The wall.

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Facebook Profile Page, 2009. It only took five years for Facebook to create easy-to-find privacy settings.

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Facebook Profile Page, 2010. Facebook starts to get pretty.

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Facebook Profile Page, 2011. Zuckerberg realizes that people love pictures, usually of animals.

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Facebook Profile Page, 2012. The timeline allows you (or your parents) to trace your life from birth to death.

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Facebook Profile Page, 2013-2014. Facebook introduced a new app, Paper, on Monday.

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Facebook Profile Page, 2014-2015. Facebook updated both the newsfeed algorithm and the privacy settings.

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Write to Alex Fitzpatrick at alex.fitzpatrick@time.com.