If you have installed the WhatsApp Messenger on your Android smartphone and added a profile image in the Android smartphone, you may want to remove it some time. To remove the profile image from WhatsApp is possible and we explain in this article how this works exactly.
To do this, open WhatsApp on your smartphone, then tap the three-point icon in the top-right corner. A small menu will now open. Select “Settings”. You will now see your WhatsApp name on the top and your profile picture on the left. Now tap on this to see your WhatsApp profile in detail.
Tap your profile again, then click the pencil icon in the large preview. A bar is now displayed at the bottom of the display. In this one you have to right-click on "remove image". This will now completely remove your WhatsApp profile image and display the default avatar.
You now know how to remove or delete the profile image under WhatsApp.