diff --git a/telethon/_client/downloads.py b/telethon/_client/downloads.py
index d472dbcf..0b9f9aaf 100644
--- a/telethon/_client/downloads.py
+++ b/telethon/_client/downloads.py
@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ async def download_profile_photo(
         entity: 'hints.EntityLike',
         file: 'hints.FileLike' = None,
         *,
-        thumb) -> typing.Optional[str]:
+        thumb,
+        progress_callback) -> typing.Optional[str]:
     # hex(crc32(x.encode('ascii'))) for x in
     # ('User', 'Chat', 'UserFull', 'ChatFull')
     ENTITIES = (0x2da17977, 0xc5af5d94, 0x1f4661b9, 0xd49a2697)
@@ -201,7 +202,7 @@ async def download_profile_photo(
 
             return await _download_photo(
                 self, entity.chat_photo, file, date=None,
-                thumb=thumb, progress_callback=None
+                thumb=thumb, progress_callback=progress_callback
             )
 
         for attr in ('username', 'first_name', 'title'):
@@ -247,7 +248,7 @@ async def download_profile_photo(
             full = await self(_tl.fn.channels.GetFullChannel(ie))
             return await _download_photo(
                 self, full.full_chat.chat_photo, file,
-                date=None, progress_callback=None,
+                date=None, progress_callback=progress_callback,
                 thumb=thumb
             )
         else:
diff --git a/telethon/_client/telegramclient.py b/telethon/_client/telegramclient.py
index 79e51404..c4b9467b 100644
--- a/telethon/_client/telegramclient.py
+++ b/telethon/_client/telegramclient.py
@@ -1628,7 +1628,8 @@ class TelegramClient:
             entity: 'hints.EntityLike',
             file: 'hints.FileLike' = None,
             *,
-            thumb: typing.Union[str, enums.Size] = ()) -> typing.Optional[str]:
+            thumb: typing.Union[str, enums.Size] = (),
+            progress_callback: 'hints.ProgressCallback' = None) -> typing.Optional[str]:
         """
         Downloads the profile photo from the given user, chat or channel.
 
@@ -1662,6 +1663,10 @@ class TelegramClient:
 
                 By default, the largest size (original) is downloaded.
 
+            progress_callback (`callable`, optional):
+                A callback function accepting two parameters:
+                ``(received bytes, total)``.
+
         Returns
             `None` if no photo was provided, or if it was Empty. On success
             the file path is returned since it may differ from the one given.