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I don't like micro-managing like that, and I think that's the reason why Telegram team decided to not add an Exception list to the profile picture. Since again, it's insane to keep a list of people who are allowed to see your profile picture. That's a serious case of a mental disorder and shouldn't be supported.

Also, next time, if you want me to answer a question of yours, direct it at m

Nick Dales Nov 25, 2021

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how the hell does that relate to a mental disorder?

Gifted Butterfly Nov 25, 2021

We don't appreciate your choice of words. But this feature has a valid use for the use cases listed above. I personally would use it for more personal profile pictures with friends and family while having a different picture for everyone else.

Brandon Nov 25, 2021

> it's insane to keep a list of people who are allowed to see your profile picture

Telegram seems to disagree since they have “always allow” and “never allow” exceptions to profile pic. I think you misunderstood what I said.

And the fact that you would write “I don't like [insert any feature] and I think that's the reason why Telegram team decided to not add [it]” is complete lunacy. I mean, do you actually believe the Telegram team makes decisions about your likes? And how would they even know your likes???

Marco Trosi Nov 25, 2021

you don't have to make use of such a feature. leave it to the people who want to use it. I don't understand why you would be against something configurable. Don't use it and nothing changes for you.

if someone wants to setup a profile pic for contacts and one for all non-contacts, that's super easy to implement and doesn't hurt anybody.

I wanna go want step further on the other side
I want to be able to select which profile pic to use for my chat partner.
1. Show original profile pic of the user or initials if there is no profile pic (default)
2. Always use the profile pic from my contacts app
3. Use the profile pic from my contacts app if the user has no profile pic
4. Always use the initials

Here again, dont make use of it if you dont like. No micro management for you. Just stick with defaults and you wont notice a difference.

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🗿Landon Dec 3, 2021

Too complicated and, frankly, the wrong tool for the job. If you have a need for anonymity in regards to certain activities, use a completely different phone number and create a seperate Telegram account.

Making multiple profiles that you need to log in and out of is far more complicated and annoying. Adding an option to make your profile appear different in a particular group would not make it any more complex for those who don't want to use the tool. It would be like the nickname option in discord. In each channel you can choose to hide your username under a "nickname" unique to that channel. People who arent interested in nicknames dont even know the option exists.

Moritz Dec 3, 2021

🗿Landon

It would make it more difficult technically and there are much more important things.
Then you can't just "/load user", you have to write an application, need new tables in a database aso.

Alex Dec 3, 2021

In my opinion it's a matter of being able to mark each profile picture as "public" or "private". The UI to choose could remind what's the policy set by the user, for example "contacts except 2". And an [Edit] button could point the user to the privacy settings we currently have.

So for each photo these checkboxes:

(*) Public
visible to everyone
( ) Private
visible to contacts except 2 [Edit]

Sayyid Feb 15, 2022

It's a good feature request and a very useful one.
Public and Private profile pictures. 👍👍

Luis Ch. Mar 16, 2022

Really useful to set 1 profile picture as public and the rest as private (contacts only).

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