Google Messages brings again customizable contacts

Google is adjusting the “profile sharing” characteristic in its Google Messages app to permit customers to set customized contact names and photographs 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 yr that overrode your customized names and photographs with every particular person’s broadcasted profile, however now you may change it again to present associates, colleagues, and relations the names and avatars that you just assume they need to have.

Google’s up to date help web page for profile sharing now outlines steps to set a neighborhood contact photograph that replaces the one shared by your contact. To customise their title or look, faucet on a contact title or image of an individual in a Google Messages chat, then faucet their photograph on the main points web page. From there, you may change between their shared one or your personal customized one for them.