Contact images (Outlook.com or Gmail)

[circatee]

For around 10-15 of my Contacts, I have an avatar (image) set in their contact details. This is set in Outlook.com and in Gmail's contacts, too.
The images and any updates to my contacts show/work fine on iOS (26.4) on my iPhone 17 Pro Max.

However, on Tahoe 26.4 Contacts rearly update. Thus, changes to images or contact data on macOS rarely ever updates/syncs. And, it doesn't matter if I perform the update from iOS, Outlook.com, or from Gmail contacts. It is almost as the "sync" for Contacts isn't working.

In settings on macOS, I turned off Contacts, waiting a moment, and re-enabled it. That did not help.
Thoughts...

 

[boppin]

Hi,

What application are you talking about? Apple Contacts or Apple Mail?

If I remember correctly, this issue persisted since 10.15. It takes a while to update. And when you got an email from a new contact who you just saved, Apple Mail won't show the correct contact image. Only when new emails arrive. But this also on the Gmail App.