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Adamya Sharma / Android Authority
TL;DR
- An Android Authority teardown of the latest Google Messages beta has revealed a change to group chat icons in testing.
- We managed to activate the option to remove a group chat icon and restore the default four-avatar grid.
- Right now, you can only change the group chat icon; you can’t remove it.
One of the little quirks of a Google Messages group chat is that once you set a picture as the group icon, you can’t go back. You can swap it for another photo, but…
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