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What is donut in Contacts
- Thread starter YuxiUx
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Can you post a screenshot?
First image is screen after click on donut (sometimes opens by itself)
Second show sms app, donut is added to every message. (sorry I don't have better example of sms)
Wow, you really did mean donuts! I thought it was probably a best attempt at describing some icon.
Do you have any themes downloaded or installed? I don't know whether the S7 supports such things, but replacing contact images is the sort of thing that certain types of themes do - especially if these are contacts for whom you don't have personal images and it's the default image that's been replaced by confectionary. That's my guess anyway, that something has replaced the default contact image on your phone. I don't know this phone's options, but if you don't have any themes maybe just check the contacts app's settings to make sure it doesn't have an option to set whimsical alternative defaults (I've never seen such a thing, but I've never used the majority of phones either so that doesn't mean that some phones don't have it).
Do you have any themes downloaded or installed? I don't know whether the S7 supports such things, but replacing contact images is the sort of thing that certain types of themes do - especially if these are contacts for whom you don't have personal images and it's the default image that's been replaced by confectionary. That's my guess anyway, that something has replaced the default contact image on your phone. I don't know this phone's options, but if you don't have any themes maybe just check the contacts app's settings to make sure it doesn't have an option to set whimsical alternative defaults (I've never seen such a thing, but I've never used the majority of phones either so that doesn't mean that some phones don't have it).
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No, everything is set to default and nothing additional installed.
Contacts with no personal image have image created from first letter of his name and before this accident "me" is represented by giraffe emoji that's not clickable. Now there is fast flashing clickable donut that's aggressively requesting to fill and share all personal information + this donut is in more places than giraffe.
(I'm sorry for my english)
I've done a little searching and it looks like you are not alone, and all of the sufferers seem to own recent Samsung phones. So I suspect it's some "cute" idea that someone at Samsung hid in the system somewhere (I've little knowledge of Korean culture, so maybe it would make more sense there?).
There are a few places where people are posting instructions for removing it from contact photos (e.g. https://us.community.samsung.com/t5...nswers/Text-messenger-profile-pic/td-p/110838), which should also remove it from message threads. It sounds a pain to have to do it manually for many contacts though. I've not so far found anyone able to explain what sets it off though. If I were to speculate I might ask whether the other affected contacts also use Samsung phones? There are suggestions in some posts that the "profile sharing" option might be implicated, so I wonder whether you are seeing it for other contacts because that feature is turned on and so you are seeing that they are suffering the same problem?
In fact if you've now got something asking you to fill in information and share it I suspect that is the Profile Sharing feature itself? I wonder if this might have been accidentally activated and all of the rest is a result of that (i.e. Samsung putting stupid default images in a feature you didn't intend to use anyway)?
There are a few places where people are posting instructions for removing it from contact photos (e.g. https://us.community.samsung.com/t5...nswers/Text-messenger-profile-pic/td-p/110838), which should also remove it from message threads. It sounds a pain to have to do it manually for many contacts though. I've not so far found anyone able to explain what sets it off though. If I were to speculate I might ask whether the other affected contacts also use Samsung phones? There are suggestions in some posts that the "profile sharing" option might be implicated, so I wonder whether you are seeing it for other contacts because that feature is turned on and so you are seeing that they are suffering the same problem?
In fact if you've now got something asking you to fill in information and share it I suspect that is the Profile Sharing feature itself? I wonder if this might have been accidentally activated and all of the rest is a result of that (i.e. Samsung putting stupid default images in a feature you didn't intend to use anyway)?
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