# Allow user to change avatar image
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-change-avatar-image/20555
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [December 31, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-change-avatar-image/20555 "2020-12-31T21:41:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Todd\_Lichtenwalter](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Todd_Lichtenwalter)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-change-avatar-image/20555/1 "2020-12-31T21:41:41Z")
How would I set it up so that a user can change the image in their user profile tab? I tried making a form button with an image picker but that only writes to a new row in the Avatar image column.
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### Author:  [@Jen\_NYCP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jen_NYCP)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-change-avatar-image/20555/2 "2020-12-31T22:25:59Z")
Is the image picker pointing to the column which you already have made for the avatars?
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### Author:  [@Todd\_Lichtenwalter](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Todd_Lichtenwalter)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-change-avatar-image/20555/3 "2020-12-31T22:28:40Z")
yes
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-change-avatar-image/20555/4 "2020-12-31T22:30:39Z")
Ya…use either the edit pencil, upload image action, or get fancy with a tap image -\> link to screen -\> this item -\> image picker with a save button to show a notification and go back 🙂
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### Author:  [@Todd\_Lichtenwalter](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Todd_Lichtenwalter)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-change-avatar-image/20555/5 "2021-01-01T00:23:29Z")
Awesome sauce, thanks Bob! Happy New Year to you and the family.
My app is almost finished…couldn’t have done it without you. Peace
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### Author:  [@meganb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/meganb)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2022, 1:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-change-avatar-image/20555/6 "2022-10-21T01:38:49Z")
If I have the user rows set to row owner, should people be able to see other user’s image/avatar in that chat forum and in public comments?
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-change-avatar-image/20555/7 "2022-10-21T01:50:52Z")
When you use Row Owners, users will not have access to any rows of data that they do not own. They will only have access to data where they are a row owner. I would imagine that this also applies to comments/chat.
> [@locked\_with\_key Secure Your Data with Row Owners and Public Profiles](https://community.glideapps.com/t/secure-your-data-with-row-owners-and-public-profiles/52139):
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> wave Hey fellow Gliders! Are you using Row Owners and Public Profiles to secure your user data? If not, you might accidentally expose private info. Let’s fix that. In this important tutorial, I demonstrate how and why to enable Row Owners, create a Public Profiles table, and onboard new users in order to safely create a community app that doesn’t reference the User Profile table. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPgZeDSPQMw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPgZeDSPQMw) You can also reference this article in the Glide Docs: [https://www.…](https://www.glideapps.com/docs/reference/security-and-user-data/row-owners)
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### Author:  [@meganb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/meganb)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2022, 2:48am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-change-avatar-image/20555/8 "2022-10-21T02:48:02Z")
If the user filled out the name section of their profile though, I can see their name, so that’s why I was thinking I’d be able to see their avatar if they had chosen to upload one. It’s strange that I can see the user’s name, but not their avatar.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2022, 3:42am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-change-avatar-image/20555/9 "2022-10-21T03:42:16Z")
First of all, you can see all data in the glide data editor, but in reality, only owned data is accessible to the app.
That’s for your table data in general.
The built in chat and comments are kind of a different beast. They haven’t changed much in 3 years, and the data is all handled internally by glide. They kind of play by they own rules. I’m not even totally sure that the chat name and avatar have anything to do with user profiles. A lot of times, it seems like glide will ask for a name independent of what’s in the user profile. Also, it used to be that the avatar image was sourced from the Gravatar service, or by some other means.
I guess I wouldn’t totally rely on the chat and comments component accurately representing the same name an image from the user profile.
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### Author:  [@NoCodeAndy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/NoCodeAndy)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-change-avatar-image/20555/10 "2024-01-12T01:44:12Z")