Signal-ios: Show user avatars in group chats

Created on 13 Jan 2015 · 5Comments · Source: signalapp/Signal-iOS

In a group chat, I find it too hard to quickly identify who wrote what. The bubbles are all grey, the names are all grey and there are no avatars shown. Especially if two of the chat partners have similar names, this gets difficult.

Proposal: Show the avatars of users besides their chat bubbles or color the bubbles or the names per user. Compare, for example, a group chat in Signal to a group chat in Threema or WhatsApp – I personally like the Threema approach with avatars better, but the WhatsApp solution also helps the user.

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mxmerz

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I believe this was accidentally closed.

michaelkirk on 18 Oct 2016

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Is this feature still on the roadmap?

mxmerz on 16 Oct 2016

I believe this was accidentally closed.

michaelkirk on 18 Oct 2016

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@michaelkirk @michaelkirk-signal @charlesmchen @charlesmchen-signal
Hi, any progress on this? I've recently started a group conversation on Signal and this is definitely a must-have!

EDIT: Oops, I don't know how, but I've accidentally unassigned @abolishme - sorry for that

pkosiec on 28 Apr 2018

How has this issue been open for 3 years now? It’s extremely hard to follow group chats without one of these suggested solutions. The group chat UI on iOS is quite frankly piss poor in its current state.