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You can suggest a profile picture to a contact. They receive it, they see how it would look, and they decide whether to use it. Nothing changes unless they say yes.
It exists for one specific situation, and using it outside that situation is the fastest way to irritate somebody.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Propose a photograph for somebody else's profile.
- check_circle Understand exactly what they see and control.
- check_circle Help somebody who cannot do it themselves.
- check_circle Know when to set a local one instead.
The suggestion arrives in the chat with a preview and an accept control; nothing happens without it.
send A proposal, not a change
The photograph appears in their chat as a suggestion they can look at and accept or ignore. If they accept, it becomes their real profile picture, visible to everybody. If they do nothing, nothing happens.
That consent step is the whole design, and it is what separates this from the local override, where you change what you see and say nothing. Here you are asking.
The obvious use is helping somebody who is not going to do it themselves: a relative who has never set a picture, a colleague using a default grey circle, somebody whose photograph is ten years old and who has mentioned it twice.
Four situations
Two are what the feature is for; two are not.
check_circle The case it was built for
photo_camera A photograph they might like
visibility_off The wrong tool
warning Where it lands badly
Suggest when you are helping them. Set a local one when you are helping yourself.
settings Doing it
- Crop the photograph square first With the face filling the frame.
- Open their profile and choose to suggest a photo Rather than the local option.
- Say in the chat that you have sent it Especially to somebody who will not recognise the prompt.
- Leave it there Accepting is their decision.
- Use a local photo instead for your own recognition It involves nobody.
- Do not repeat it Silence is an answer.
This page suggests a picture to somebody else. The curriculum step is setting your own well: the gallery of previous photographs, animated avatars and their still frames, and what makes an image work at the size an avatar is actually seen.
At a glance
- 1Suggest a photo
Offer a profile photo to a contact.
- 2They decide
Nothing changes unless they accept it.
- 3Be tactful
Only suggest to people you know well.
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