Contact Posters Disabled in iOS 17

The most likely reason why your Contact Poster is disabled is because you have disabled Name & Photo Sharing. This setting controls whether your name and photo are shared with other people when you call them.

To check this setting, go to the Phone app and tap Edit in the top-left corner. Then, tap on your name card. Under Contact Photo & Poster, make sure that the toggle for Name & Photo Sharing is enabled.

If the toggle is already enabled, then the problem may be something else. Here are a few other things you can try:

• Restart your iPhone.
• Reset your network settings. To do this, go to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset Network Settings.
• Make sure that your iPhone is up to date with the latest version of iOS. To check for updates, go to Settings > General > Software Update.
• If you're still having problems, contact Apple Support for help.

Note: Even if you enable Name & Photo Sharing, the other person will still need to have iOS 17 installed in order to see your Contact Poster.

My disabled feature was greyed out. I was able to access it by shutting down my iPhone, restarting it, and then accessing contacts which prompted me to set it up.

Contact pictures don't seem to transfer, however.

Close enough, it had something to do with that but as I already had it done before swapping to eSIM today I realised you have to go back in:

Settings / Messages / Share Name & Photos / and toggle back ON - Name & Photo Sharing

I found a workaround, in contacts press edit in upper right corner, then in edit screen, again press edit (middle screen), from there you can change your (customize) your photo and poster, worked for me. Let me know if this works for you guys.

Try to go to:

Settings / Messages / Share Name & Photos / and toggle back ON - Name & Photo Sharing

Okay, so I think I figured it all out. If you have two numbers being used for Messages and Facetime, you have to deregister one, then add your contact photo and poster, then reactivate messages/Facetime

Sooo I think I figured it out. I just went to settings > general > Shut Down. Turned it back on and it worked after wards. Had the issue with “Disabled” and it was saying I had multiple numbers connected (which I didn’t) so I shut it down then now it’s working for me. Hopefully this works out for someone else! :)

I think I may have figured it out. I went to my Messages app... then clicked on the three dots in the top right... then clicked on Set Up Name and Photo... it gave me a prompt that said, "Sharing Name and Photo is not available because multiple phone numbers are associated to your Apple ID".

I have two phones with different phone numbers... my personal and my work phone. Not sure how to get around or resolve this.

In order for it to work, I had to go to my work phone then go to Settings - Messages - and uncheck my work phone number... which means that my messages between my work phone and personal phone may no longer be synched??!!

This is lame.

If you and another person share an Apple ID, it won’t let you enable this. Atleast that’s what my phone tells me!

Sharing Name and Photo not available

Sharing Name and Photo is not available because multiple phone numbers are associated to your

Apple ID.

Sharing name and photo is not available on your devices because multiple phone numbers are using the same apple ID , reason is because you have other iPhones with same apple ID or ESIM on your phone using same appleID , now its upto Apple to figure it out in the next update

I found another way around this annoying iOS 17 poster feature, to keep it off my contact list. Just don't let the Apple Contacts-app manage it. Rather let the Google->Contacts app manage it from a web-browser. Makes it easier than doing a transfer-waltz for each iOS device on your account. That way no contacts are stored on phone and/or SIM. To have Google->Contacts manage your iPhone contacts exclusively, go to Settings->Contacts->Accounts->Gmail. (If Gmail doesn't exist, "Add" it.) It's my preference to only allow Gmail to manage my "Contacts" and/or "Calendars". Before you disable "Contacts" from other non-Gmail accounts in this list, be you transfer your contacts to Google->Contacts. Then, instead of letting the iOS-17 Contacts-app decide for you on new contacts with this relentless and annoying poster feature. Manage (add, edit, delete) your Contacts via the Google-Contacts, and they will automagically show up on your phone without the annoying contact poster.

It will let you create it but it won’t be active. You can’t toggle on when you have multiple numbers. Apple please fix. I have a work phone and personal. They share the ID because it can.