Create & Manage your Likeness

You can represent yourself and interact with others while you wear your headset with Likeness. When you join video calls, you can let attendees view your Likeness, a photo-realistic representation of yourself, created based on a scan of your face. Your Likeness mirrors your expressions, mouth, and head movements which let you interact face-to-face even with a headset.

What's on this page:

Access the app
Create a Likeness
Customize your Likeness
Delete a Likeness
Use your Likeness
Make sure your data is safe

Access the app

You can access the Likeness (beta) app, along with the other apps, on your headset. To access the Launcher, use Gesture Navigation.

To access the Likeness (beta) app in Settings, find the “Avatars” tab. There, you can manage the Likeness app and any other avatar apps on your device.

Create a Likeness

Important: To upload your avatar to the Likeness headset app, make sure you login to the Likeness headset app within a day of creating your Avatar. If you can’t login, your newly captured Avatar will be deleted.

To create your first Likeness, on your mobile device, install the Likeness (beta) mobile app. You can find it in the Play Store.

You also need a compatible device: Google Pixel 8 or newer, Samsung Galaxy S23 or newer, or Samsung Z Fold5 or newer. Without a compatible device, you can’t use the app.

If you're wearing your headset, remove it.
On your compatible Android device, open the Likeness (beta) app .
Sign in to the same Google Account you use on your headset.
Review the consent agreement.
To achieve the highest quality scan, review the helpful hints.
- Take your captures in the best lighting as you would with regular selfies.
To capture your facial expressions, follow the instructions.
While your Likeness is being generated, do not close the app.
When your Likeness is generated, to preview your avatar, switch back to your headset and go to the Likeness (beta) app .

Customize your Likeness

To make small changes to your Likeness: In the live view, select Edit .
To adjust warmth, brightness, or touch up: Select Picker .
To adjust the background color: Select Color fill .

Delete a Likeness

When you delete a Likeness, all related data is deleted and the Likeness is removed from all synced devices.

To delete a Likeness:

With your headset:
1. Open the Likeness (beta) app .
2. Select the Likeness you want to delete.
3. In the “live view” toolbar, select Delete .

Through your mobile device:
1. Open the Likeness (beta) mobile app .
2. Press and hold on the Likeness you want to delete.
3. In the live view, tap Delete .

If you no longer wish to have a headset associated with your Google Account, you can sign out of the device through My devices. This makes all Likenesses associated with your Google Account inaccessible.

Use your Likeness

When you use an app that allows a self-facing camera, you can choose to use the Likeness you created with the Likeness (beta) mobile app, or a Samsung Galaxy Avatar. You can set your default avatar using the Settings app:

On your Android XR Device, open the Settings app.
Tap Avatars.
Select the avatar you want to use as your default.

To use your Likeness as the system default:

In the Likeness (beta) app, in the avatar live view, select a default avatar.
To turn on your avatar, make sure the video is turned on.

Make sure your data is safe

Your Likeness is always associated with your Google Account. Likenesses created on your mobile device are temporarily backed up to Google Cloud, to be synced to the headset and your associated Google Account.

When successfully synced and downloaded to your headset, the Likeness will be deleted from the Google systems. If a Likeness isn’t downloaded to your headset within a day of creation, it will be automatically deleted from the Google system. When you delete a Likeness, all data will be deleted and the Likeness will be removed from all synced devices.

To further secure your data, set up your Likeness (beta) app lock screen on your Android XR device before you use it. Any created Likenesses can be used by anyone that has access to your account and device.

If you no longer wish to have a headset associated with your Google Account, you can sign out of the device on your My devices. This makes all Likenesses associated with your Google Account inaccessible.