diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/enhancement-user-profile-picture-capability b/changelog/unreleased/enhancement-user-profile-picture-capability
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2fbe1bebdcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/enhancement-user-profile-picture-capability
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Enhancement: Announce user profile picture capability
+
+Added a new capability (through https://github.com/cs3org/reva/pull/1694) to prevent 
+the web frontend from fetching (nonexistent) user avatar profile pictures which added 
+latency & console errors.
+
+https://github.com/owncloud/ocis/pull/2036
diff --git a/storage/pkg/command/frontend.go b/storage/pkg/command/frontend.go
index 928a73fc9be..6d4226c8c89 100644
--- a/storage/pkg/command/frontend.go
+++ b/storage/pkg/command/frontend.go
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ func frontendConfigFromStruct(c *cli.Context, cfg *config.Config, filesCfg map[s
 								},
 								"user": map[string]interface{}{
 									"send_mail": true,
+									"profile_picture": false,
 								},
 								"user_enumeration": map[string]interface{}{
 									"enabled":            true,