Why haven't text message conversations updated my contacts profile photo?

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text message conversations has not updated contacts profile photo.

lumia 640 lte windows10
text message conversations has not updated contacts profile photo. having recently added a photo to 'people' for a contact, this photo has not appeared on contacts text message...any ideas, hope this is clear enough to understand, thanks, drew.

 

[spicypadthai]

Re: text message conversations has not updated contacts profile photo.

Noticed this, too. Only way I found to fix it was to delete the conversation and start a new one.

 

[andrew bainbridge]

Noticed this, too. Only way I found to fix it was to delete the conversation and start a new one.

...and then you got the photo?

(screw me, I've just looked...it's just updated it, without deleting conversation!)

 

[Chintan Gohel]

Re: text message conversations has not updated contacts profile photo.

lumia 640 lte windows10
text message conversations has not updated contacts profile photo. having recently added a photo to 'people' for a contact, this photo has not appeared on contacts text message...any ideas, hope this is clear enough to understand, thanks, drew.

as the person above has noted, it updates after a while. So give it some time

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