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mugshotmike
Feb 10, 2024Copper Contributor
Is there a way to get profile pictures to show up in chats and posts
In slack, everytime someone posts or sends a direct message, their avatar or icon shows their picture. My clients want that feature. In Teams we can change our profile picture but chats and posts o...
BarryGoblon
Feb 15, 2024Iron Contributor
mugshotmike Firstly, you can manually add profile pictures to each post or chat message by using the attachment icon. This allows you to insert the user's profile photo as needed on a per-message basis. Another option is to create custom Teams apps/bots that can scan for new messages and automatically insert the sender's profile picture using Graph API and messaging extensions.
However, this would require development work. Additionally, you could consider using chat stickers or memes in place of profile pictures to emulate the visual look of images for each user in chats, since Teams has a built-in sticker functionality.