: For technical users, services like Whapi.Cloud and Maytapi offer APIs to programmatically retrieve public profile pictures by phone number. How to Protect Your Profile Picture
In the past, WhatsApp Web had certain inconsistencies. A user could log into WhatsApp Web, and sometimes profile pictures of non-contacts would appear in group chats or forwarded message info, even if privacy settings were restricted. However, WhatsApp has patched many of these "loopholes."
