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title: Text message link preview shows wrong photo
description: When you text a property link, the preview in the message can show a photo that is not the one you expect. This can come from the page itself or from the…
url: "https://homerunner.io/docs/when-i-text-a-property-link-the-preview-shows-the-wrong-photo-is-my-website-or-p/"
updated: "2026-10-26"
category: General
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# Text message link preview shows wrong photo

When you text a property link, the preview in the message can show a photo that is not the one you expect. This can come from the page itself or from the phone.

**Check what the page is serving.** First check what the page is actually serving to phones and social apps. Paste the property link into a link-preview checker such as opengraph.to. If the checker shows the correct photo, your website and your PMS are both fine.

**Why this happens.** iPhones build the link preview on the sending phone and store it with the message thread. A preview already in a conversation never updates on its own, and iOS has no setting to clear it.

**Getting a fresh preview.** To get a new preview:

1. Delete the message and paste the link again.
2. If the old photo still appears, add ?v=2 to the end of the link for that send. The phone treats it as a new URL and builds a new preview, but the link opens the same page.

**If the checker shows the wrong photo.** Send the exact link to support so the page can be inspected directly.

Still stuck? [Contact the HomeRunner team](https://homerunner.io/contact/) with your site address and what you tried, and we take it from there.