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Add Pictures to Contacts on your phone is a quick way to see who is calling. This is especially important if you have trouble seeing the name on the screen and find it hard to read it. By default, Android uses a generic block letter as the image for a person who is not set up as a contact. Depending on who it is, you might also want to change the person’s picture to something that makes it easier to recognize them when they reply.
How To Add Pictures to Contacts on Android
- Tap on the Contacts App on your Android Phone
- From the list of Contacts, tap on the Contact to which you want to add or assign a picture.
- On the next screen, tap on the Edit button located at the top right corner of your screen
- On the Contacts Detail Screen, tap on the Camera icon located near the Contacts name
- Once you tap on the Camera icon, you will see a popup menu providing with two options to add a picture to your Contact
- In case you selected Image, you will be taken to the Image Gallery. Select a picture from the Gallery that you want to assign to this Contact by tapping on it.
- On the next screen, you can make adjustments to the image. Tap on Done whenever you are satisfied with the adjustments.
- Next, tap on Save to save the Contacts Photo.
Add Pictures to Contacts on iPhone
- Open the Contacts app.
- You can also open the Phone app and tap Contacts.
- Tap to select a contact.
- Tap Edit.
- Tap anywhere on the Add Photo link or photo bubble.
- Select the Image icon to use a picture that’s saved in your Photos app.
- Select the Camera icon to take a photo using your device’s camera.
- For either option, you’ll be able to Move and Scale the photo to fit. Drag your finger across the screen to center the photo.
- Tap Choose (or Use Photo for older iPhone versions) to finish.
- You can tap to select a different color gradient for the contact image.
- Tap Done to save your new contact image.
- Tap Done to save your changes to the contact.
FAQs
Do you have enough storage available on your device? Try to use the Contacts app to add a photo, or from your Gallery or Photos app see if you can set a contact photo by tapping on “Use as”, and selecting a contact.
There’s a temporary network issue. You or the user changed your privacy settings for last seen and online or profile photo. You and the user both need to resync your contacts. You’re blocked by the contact.
If you share the same AppleID, and have iCloud Photo storage turned on and sync your contacts, this is exactly what will happen. One of you, likely you, should create your own unique AppleID. Stop sharing an iCloud account.
Show activity on this post. The Contacts app on Samsung Android phones has a feature called profile sharing. If you enable it, it lets you share your name, phone number and profile picture with all your contacts