Personal contact photo...where did you go???

[Ellifofelli]

So this has been bugging me for the past couple updates for my phone.

I remember when in the text messages the person you were talking too had a picture next to their messages on the left.

When I first got my S6 edge mid to late 2015 I had a contact photo as well that appeared next to my messages on the right. Two updates ago they took that out.

Does anyone have any knowledge of this and why it was removed? And if there is a way to bring it back.