Do away with the colored circle with initials/photo in it. Extremely distracting.
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Thank you for your feedback! You can turn off the sender image circle by clicking the quick settings gear icon (top right in the suite header) and clicking the toggle next to “Sender image”
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Nancy Reissner
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Why does the sender image circle on my outlook mail say GOV. UK when those are not my initials and I live in North America, not anywhere near the UK?
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Anonymous
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That "fix" does not seem to work.
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Anonymous
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I am so happy to find this! I use the desktop version of Office 365, and the circle with my initials at the top of the window that changes colors for no reason drives me nuts! I am trying to figure out how to turn it off!!! I haven't figured out the answer from this thread yet. But I'm very happy to see I'm not the only one bothered by this, and looking for how to remove it.
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LP
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I figured out how to do this (This is for the IOS app): go to settings (home, scroll down to settings on the bottom left corner), scroll down and toggle off "show contact photos". Sweet Jesus that was annoying!
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RU
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There is no "sender image" toggle under quick settings on my iPhone. Where is that located or how else can you turn off these irritating circles?
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Guido
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PLEASE!!!!!! For Outlook mobile web on my Android phone: get rid of the color icons with the sender's initials! Totally meaningless and very anoying on such a small screen like a phone!
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Nunya Bizness
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OK the gear is only found on OUTLOOK.COM
Please give instructions for Desktop Outlook365 and/or get rid of the colored circles please! -
Nunya Bizness
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Gear icon where? Which "suite header" are you refering too?
There is no gear for quick settings redily visible... Please give an answer like Open email pane >Quick steps tab >Gear icon >Sender images off -
ck
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how can you remove from outlook on pgone? have officee365
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josephine dillon
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I do not appreciate the coloured circles on my contacts on my outlook email account
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Anonymous
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I detest the little circles. To tun them off: Go to File, Options, People, uncheck the "Show user photographs when available" box and restart Outlook.
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Eiblish Ni Faolain
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Why do y0u change things for the sake of changing. I hate my initials on my emails vice my love palm tree. Just ****.
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Alex
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Well I actually removed that on the Desktop by logging into my Outlook account. BUT: On my Android cell phone these avatar sender pictures still are there. How can I remove them ?
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Allyn DeMaida
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I don't love the colored circle but I don't really mind it either - except that it reverses the order of the initials. "Mary Smith" is filed under "Smith, Mary" so the icon comes up as "SM". How do I fix that? Don't see a gear icon on my screen.
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Anonymous
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Get rid of the Name initials on the side of the emails, now all the emails look new, it's hard to delineate between unread and read
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Vienna Suen
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The colors are meaningless. Its distracting. If it doesn't enhance user experience, it shouldn't be there.
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Anonymous
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Eliminate the offensive color circle with user initials icons. These should never appear under any circumstances. They are inconsiderate of those color deficient and vailate curtural taboos regarding color use.
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Tom
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Trying to get rid of the infantile color circles containing the senders initials from my emails.
The quick settings gear icon does not appear anywhere in the application.
I am running Outlook 365 client W/ Windows 10.
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Jay
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What's strange is that these colors change every time I load Outlook. I toggled the on/off options (by going to File > Options > People > Show user photographs when available) and was able to get the royal blue for my own initials I wanted, but that reset to a different color then next time I loaded Outlook. Frustrated, I went ahead shut off the feature because I didn't like the colors randomly being reassigned each time I loaded the program.
What I also am puzzled by is how Outlook has different features for different versions of the program. I use Office 365, but another computer in my office has a slightly older version of Office, and that computer shows gray, rectangular images of cartoon people instead of the colored initials. I didn't mind that because at least all the cartoon people were consistently gray.
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nickwilcock
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How do I get rid of the coloured circles? Highly annoying. Where is this gear icon and sender image option selector?
