Contact photos won’t save

When I go to save a picture for a contact, I crop the photo and hit save, and the when it goes back to the contact it’s back to just the person’s initials.

I have synced and unsynced my contacts from iCloud. I’ve also made sure that in message settings I have it set to showing a contact’s photo in messages. I’ve had this issue with my last iPhone too.

is there a fix for this? It’s become increasingly frustrating.