SharePoint 2013: Profile Pictures not showing in Custom List

When I migrated my first site over to 2013, it had a custom list displaying on the homepage with pictures of people in that particular department. After the move, the pictures weren't displaying. Lovely. The first thing I did was to delete the items and try adding them again but this didn't work. It turned out that deleting the list and re-creating the list worked for me. However, there are some considerations around this that you may need to ensure of on your settings.

If your pictures aren't showing up, the first thing that you should check is whether or not they are being propgated over to the site collection from the MySite Web App. You can do so by browsing to the User Information List on your troublesome site collection.

http:///_catalogs/users/detail.aspx

The above will show a detailed list of all of the users that have been propogated to your site. Check to see if they have pictures correctly. If they do, then re-creating your custom list app should hopefully work.

If your pictures are not showing there, then we need to look at your User Profile Service Application! Woop a deee dooo dahh! Don't you just love it? After over 2 years of working with it, I am quite comfortable with the ins and outs but that's just with trial and error.

So, go to your Central Administration Site. Under "Application Management", click on "Manage Service Applications" and select "User Profile Service Application".

When in there, click on "Manage User Properties", scroll down to find the Picture property and hover over it, click on the arrow and select "Edit".

About half way down the page, there is an option under policy settings for "Replicable". Make sure that this is ticked.

Now, it may take 24 or even 48 hours but this should replicate your pictures to your User Information List on each and every site collection. Ensure that your profile sync is running!!!

I hope this helps. If anyone has any questions on Provisioning the User Profile Service Application or any part of this, please comment below :)