# Add "Manually selected/changed posters never change"

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-manually-selected-changed-posters-never-change/872300>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [March 16, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-manually-selected-changed-posters-never-change/872300 "2024-03-16T10:50:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![uncpnate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b3f665/32.png) [@uncpnate](https://forums.plex.tv/u/uncpnate)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-manually-selected-changed-posters-never-change/872300/1 "2024-03-16T10:50:34Z")

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Create a setting, whether it’s a standard or premium feature, to where when someone manually sets, changes, or uploads an image for a poster, that poster never automatically changes. Once set, the only way that poster will change is if it is again manually changed.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-manually-selected-changed-posters-never-change/872300/2 "2024-03-16T10:59:41Z")

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You can already do this, by putting a poster.jpg beside your video files and enabling “Use local assets” in the properties of the library.

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**Author:** ![x1ao4](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/x1ao4/32/298402_2.png) [@x1ao4](https://forums.plex.tv/u/x1ao4)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-manually-selected-changed-posters-never-change/872300/3 "2024-03-16T11:02:31Z")

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Isn’t it already like this? Manually selected posters are automatically locked, and even if the metadata is refreshed, it won’t change unless the poster is deleted at the source.

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**Author:** ![blackzwe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/blackzwe/32/237058_2.png) [@blackzwe](https://forums.plex.tv/u/blackzwe)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-manually-selected-changed-posters-never-change/872300/4 "2024-03-16T15:23:39Z")

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My experience has been this is already the expected behavior, if it’s not taking, then it must be a bug.