I uploaded the user’s profile image using profile_file. This automatically generated and populated profile_url. My question is how do you remove the user’s profile image? Passing an empty string in profile_url works, but the file is actually still on Sendbird’s server (pasting the url in a browser …

Hi @HTC - thanks for reaching out to Sendbird! Let me internalize it, will get back to you with the updates.

How do you remove the user's profile image?

taha.saghir March 4, 2022, 7:42pm 4

Currently, there is not API to physically delete the image. However, the image is not longer accessible once the link has expired.

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