Google Messages restores your control over custom photos for contacts

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• Profile Discovery in Google Messages let your friends choose the photo they’d appear in your app as.
• Messages had been working on a new option to let you override that pic, using your locally defined Contacts settings.
• That choice is finally available now, and you can swipe between pics to choose the one you prefer.

Photos can make it so much easier to quickly find the person we’re looking for as we scroll through a long list of contacts. That’s part of why we were so excited to see Google Messages pick up Profile Discovery last year, making it easy for our friends to choose how they’d like to appear on our phones. For as useful as that was, though, it felt like it was taking some control out of our hands — what if you’re used to associating your BFF with a goofy pic from some in-joke, and now you’re stuck with the same boring headshot as everybody?

Thankfully, we spotted work a few months ago on a tweak to Messages that would let you override Profile Discovery pictures with ones of your choosing. And now, as 9to5Google has noticed, that change appears to finally be live.




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