SharePoint UserPhotos.aspx not showing the latest profile picture immediately

Rahini Radha (AP) 106 Reputation points
2021-03-16T01:49:46.187+00:00

We are using SharePoint "UserPhotos.aspx" page for displaying the user's profile picture in our application like below.

http://domain.com/_layouts/15/userphoto.aspx?size=L&accountname=domainname\username

The problem is, this url doesn't show the latest profile picture uploaded immediately. What we need to do to display the latest the latest profile picture immediately? Please advise.

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  1. Allen Xu_MSFT 13,776 Reputation points
    2021-03-16T07:36:24.917+00:00

    Hi @Rahini Radha (AP) ,

    The user profile picture will be updated after User Profile Change Job timer job runs. Please go to SharePoint Central Administration -> Monitoring -> Review job definitions and then select View: Service and Services: User Profile Service. Select User Profile Service Application - User Profile Change Job.
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    You can click Run Now if you want to update user profile picture immediately. Also, you can set this timer job scheduled to run every 1 minutes. So that, you don't need to run the timer job manually every time you update the user profile picture.
    78120-schedule.png

    As per my test, browser cache also has impact on the URL return results. You'd better clean browser cache or change a browser when you frequently get pictures from the URL.

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