Google is adjusting the “profile sharing” function in its Google Messages app to permit customers to set customized contact names and images on their very own units for his or her saved contacts and others they ship textual content messages. As reported by 9to5Google, a change rolled out late final 12 months that overrode your customized names and images with every particular person’s broadcasted profile, however now you’ll be able to change it again to present pals, colleagues, and members of the family the names and avatars that you just assume they need to have.
Google’s updated support page for profile sharing now outlines steps to set an area contact picture that replaces the one shared by your contact. To customise their identify or look, faucet on a contact identify or image of an individual in a Google Messages chat, then faucet their picture on the small print web page. From there, you’ll be able to change between their shared one or your personal customized one for them.