iOS 14 allows you to set a photo, emoji, or text as the icon for a group chat in your iPhone Messages app — here's how to do it

Dave Johnson

Oct 22, 2020, 03:00 IST

iOS 14 allows you to set a photo, emoji, or text as the icon for a group chat in your iPhone Messages app — here's how to do it

It's easy to customize an iPhone group chat with a cover photo, as long as there isn't an Android user in the group.Tom Werner/Getty Images

You can set a photo as the icon for Messages group chats on an iPhone running iOS 14.
You can also set an emoji, Memoji, or text for the group chat icon.
Everyone in the conversation needs to be using iMessage for this to work.
To set the image, tap the top of a conversation, tap "info," and then tap "Change Name and Photo."

Starting with iOS 14, you now have some new ways to customize group conversations in the iPhone Messages app. If you frequently use group conversations to stay in touch with friends, family, or coworkers, for example, you can assign a unique group photo or emoji.

You can only set group photos for messages in which all the members are using iMessage — if even one person is not using iMessage, you can't set an image.

How to set a photo for Messages group chats on an iPhone

1. Open the Messages app and open an existing conversation.

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2. Tap the names in the conversation at the top of the screen. You should see the title bar expand.

3. Tap "info."

4. On the conversation's details page, tap "Change Name and Photo."

5. Set the group image using any of the tools on this screen – you can take a photo, choose an image from your photo gallery, add an emoji, set a Memoji, or even type a name. When you're finished, tap "Done." Everyone in the group should get the new image atop their conversation.