That is actually the contact picture. If you haven't selected a contact picture it will default to initials, but that is just the placeholder for contact pics.
That is actually the contact picture. If you haven't selected a contact picture it will default to initials, but that is just the placeholder for contact pics.
But the fact that it is in a group MMSis promising. Under iOS 5 and 6 it seems like every reply to a group sent message went into a thread for that single person. If this means actual replies stay in the group then yeah. It's well overdue.
Then we just need a way to manually split a message thread with it either showing the links or even also starting a new thread (the running list can get rather messy)