Recently, a strange thing occurred in my account when viewing it on my laptop computer. I have my normal profile picture that appears in the upper right hand corner of what I see when viewing my mail at mail.google.com
. However, if I pick any email in my inbox and view that email, after the email content is a separator line and a box that reads Click here to Reply or Forward
and to the left of the box that contains that text is another picture that is not my profile picture, but a picture of one of my contacts.
Why is this random contact picture appearing next to my reply-to line and how do I get my own photo to appear instead of this other person's in my contacts?
Is there some kind of corruption coming from my Android phone that is causing this?
I checked my Google+ account (which I don't really use) and didn't see any issue with my profile picture there. Is there some other place that is getting crossed wires with my Gmail profile?
I have confirmed that my email recipients see my correct profile picture, so I'm not sure if this random profile picture is showing up anywhere else as being me. I also see that if I go into my sent
folder, each email I have sent shows this random profile picture as being me, the author of the emails I have sent.
I tried deleting the contact that has the erroneous picture showing up as me, deleting the contact from my phone and from my contacts at contacts.gmail.com
. However, even after deleting that contact, I still see this extra picture as me that is really someone else.