Caller ID Photos For Friends Are Blurry When Getting Phone Calls!

Apple’s new contact customize feature is the culprit. The caller id photo and the contact photo are two separate objects now in the new iOS. This means that for every person that you want the caller id and the contact photo to be the same, you have to manually redo every contact and attach the photo to the caller id.

To fix this, when editing a contact, you will now see an “edit” button below the contact photo. After pressing edit, you need to press customize then “poster.” After setting up your “poster” (aka the caller id), you wont see blurry screens anymore.

Apple is really dumb for not making the default “poster” be the full resolution contact photo. Instead, they have this weird blurry thing. Hope this helps

I FIGURED IT OUT!! It’s annoying but u have to go into each persons individual contact and customize the “Contact Photo & Photo”. I went into my recent calls, selected a person, then scrolled and u see it. Then u click it and can customize the poster screen that comes up when u get a call from them and add the pictures back!! Hope this helps !!!

for the blurred incoming calls pictures solution

photo album > choose the pic you want to assign to the contact > edit > adjust frame > choose ratio of 3:5 > done > assign pic to contact.

problem solved. thank me later.

Happening to me since I updated to iOS17 but can’t find anything in the settings. Please advise.

I have this same problem. I can't believe this hasn't been solved yet. Got a new phone (14 pro max), updated automatically to ios 17 and it's just like the photos posted.

This is happening for me too. Has there been a fix yet?

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Is this a joke? I have over 1000 contacts in my phone. Most with pictures attached. You're telling me that Apple made a switch that changes the way my phone has behaved for the last ten years and now I have to spend hours (maybe even days) trying to fix this?

Don't worry, I wont be thanking anyone.

Hardly. Many of my contact photos were taken YEARS ago. I now need to fish around for 200 photos from 1-10 years ago to update all contact photos for friends, family members, co-workers, just to see the photo when I get an incoming call?? No thanks.

Great. Thanks for nothing.

This is the solution. Thank you!

Glad I could help!

This is absolute trash. Hope you didn't have any plans that didn't revolve around spending hours trying to fix your phone.