Latest update to iOS 17 put a big gray poster background with white font on each of my contacts. Unless they used a custom photo, it is nearly impossible to read.
For clarification, I’m an older adult and my eyes aren’t what they used to be so most of my settings are set to a black background with a gray font.
Has anyone figured out how to change that gray poster box without having to do it on each contact one at a time?
I called Apple support and you can change the background color by hitting edit one the contact then the edit picture and then chose color or for some of them I didn’t have that option so had to hit monogram ( put the first letter in the first circle) then pick the color you want. Each one has to be done individually but for my 95 year old mother I had to do it. Fortunately her iPad and phone are connected so at least I only had to do it on the phone.
Checksonce wrote:
Apple seems to be from another planet or another time.
I find this change extremely inconvenient and unnecessary.
Tell Apple:
A contact in my experience is viewed to access his contact details ex phone no etc and I have checked with a few other users. 99% do not bother to add a photograph to a contact.
That is not necessarily are representative sample of iPhone users.
Very difficult for me to read the new contact screen. I am disappointed that we are not given the option to keep the previous screen. Would be interesting to hear from Apple why they made this change. Also would be interesting to hear if they include seniors in their beta testing of new products.
Wendola99 wrote:
Would be interesting to hear from Apple why they made this change.
Apple very rarely comments on such things and they certainly don't do so in this user-to-user technical support forum.
Also would be interesting to hear if they include seniors in their beta testing of new products.
Anyone can participate in the public beta as long as they are over 18. But I don't think that liking or not liking this isn't necessarily age related. I like it and I'm over sixty.
Since I’m around Steve’s age the profanities he would divulge are censored and removed here, I’ll share something more delicate for these punks.
Most people don’t care about aesthetic like the California punks care about. Most and even Steve care about functionality. Our precious time is being held hostage to track and learn every change that affects us and we don’t want that.
Please use your god given brain to understand the meaning of your placement in life. Become something meaningful, and not another pet for an employer that will replace you at any given point in your life no matter how great your contributions may had been to the company.
Your parents advise would be don’t do stoopid 💩
No one has time for these meaningless changes. They hold our time hostage. I was hesitant in downloading it. I have turned off automatic updates. I’m not doing this again. This is a ridiculous waste of time and resources. Phones will be going out of business within the next 10 years. There’s now a clip )god help us) that will replace phones. I’m reverting back to a rotary and touch home phone. My MacBook also has been compromised with all these updates which were less frequent and the reason I bought a Mac. It is extremely slow loading and I’m keeping it until it is no longer functional. I’m from the dial up age so I won’t let all this nonsense bother me. I just stop purchasing.
I guess my comment was a little more colorful and it was removed. I just got email from Apple as there’s rules and etiquette. Now it appears I have some sort of ban because the useful button is greyed out. I can’t see the less colorful comments either.
I don’t understand the waste of resources in meaningless changes that they later undo or fix. Is insanity.
New update well the contacts are terrible what they done to them messed up a few of my friends photos I have photos with every contact person on my iPhone. I hate the new look the change that removed picture that covered in gray color. Why did they even bother
Now more news from the police 👮 department about the update for parents to change a setting in AIRDROP cause people can get close to their phone or your own phone and they get your name email address photos this is scary 😱 I checked mine of course in setting mine was turned OFF
This 17 up date has been the worst ever marking people upset and not liking it at all
if it was not broke they should have left it alone. Now a second update that’s not good it’s was in the news APPLE 🍎 IOS 17
update not good.
Apple needs to fix all these problems put it back like it was
check your phones on the AIRDROP
not good either WHRN you hear it from the police department on the news.
Rebbie7069 wrote:
Now more news from the police 👮 department about the update for parents to change a setting in AIRDROP cause people can get close to their phone or your own phone and they get your name email address photos this is scary 😱 I checked mine of course in setting mine was turned OFF
This 17 up date has been the worst ever marking people upset and not liking it at all
if it was not broke they should have left it alone. Now a second update that’s not good it’s was in the news APPLE 🍎 IOS 17
update not good.
From "the police department"? Which police department? There is more than one. It sounds like you've fallen victim to some scaremongering. The feature you're talking about, NameDrop, requires that the phones be practically touching.
Use NameDrop on iPhone to share your contact info - Apple Support
Apple needs to fix all these problems put it back like it was
Tell Apple:
check your phones on the AIRDROP
not good either WHRN you hear it from the police department on the news.
You may not be old enough to remember, but we used to have this thing called a "Phone Book". The name, address and phone number of almost everyone who had a phone number was in it. And we survived.
The media wants you to be afraid so their advertisers can sell you stuff.
I’m interested in ability to bulk change all contacts, too. Preferably to the view they were before. Sheesh - what a mess. It would be nice if apple gave a check list so we could indicate, Don’t Want, before appearance changes were deployed
With this change, the safari settings to clear history is also messed up. It has to be done manually to clear all cookies and close all tabs because the default is one hour and the slider to close all tabs is off. This is intentional.
I turned off update, and the sliders on all options that I’m not clear on are off as well as Siri. I am not going to make it easy to give my data and neither should you.
bunchofcrapthisis wrote:
I’m interested in ability to bulk change all contacts, too. Preferably to the view they were before. Sheesh - what a mess. It would be nice if apple gave a check list so we could indicate, Don’t Want, before appearance changes were deployed
You have the option of joining the public beta so that you can give Apple feedback while the new versions are being developed.
How soon will Apple fully respond with actual programming to this negative feedback regarding IOS 17 Contacts graphics and features? Days? Weeks? Months? Is there a genuine possibility of very quickly and temporarily reverting iPhone programming to the previous Contacts programming, roughly matching IOS 16 features, and then after that slowly and carefully releasing any further changes to contacts? It's not just older people complaining. People who work outdoors, executives moving fast who do not want to scroll more than necessary, people with large numbers of contacts, people who rarely if ever use photos on contacts, so many categories....
We must continue this thread until they revert back to the aesthetics we previously had including clearing history for safari which has also been changed and it is really inconvenient and takes additional steps to clear it. If I do not clear the history periodically, the searches slow down significantly or become non responsive. Apple themselves suggested I cleared it and close all tabs to restore the speed.
y210 wrote:
We must continue this thread until they revert back to the aesthetics we previously had including clearing history for safari which has also been changed and it is really inconvenient and takes additional steps to clear it. If I do not clear the history periodically, the searches slow down significantly or become non responsive. Apple themselves suggested I cleared it and close all tabs to restore the speed.
I don't want to go back so. I like iOS 17. The custom text tone thing was a problem but they fixed it.
Response to IdrisSeabright
Your post: “No one here in this user-to-user forum would know the answer
to that (Apple's programming intentions).”
Of course not. What are the purposes of a forum? One of the purposes in my view
is to share concerns and issues with, in this case, Apple products. Some Forum
readers might consider, based on reading forum discussions, to post to Apple
Feedback, which might help get things done. Users helping each other directly is
not the only reason for being for a forum, in my opinion. We differ on that.
Your post: “If you're asking if you can downgrade to iOS 16, no, you
can't. If you're asking if Apple could reverse the changes, I'm sure they could
if they decided they wanted to. But, again, no one here would know anything
about that.”
Of course, there is no chance of a reversion to the previous IOS 16.
Reversion like this is extremely rare for any company, almost certainly never
for Apple historically. My suggestion is that perhaps bits of the programming
for contacts in IOS 16 could be restored to IOS 17 in a new update. I make no
technical claims on this, and my comment is a mere hope. The main point is
backtracking quickly, and then proceeding slowly with revisions.
Your post: It's not just older people complaining. I'm an older person
and I have no problem with it. So, not all older people are complaining.”
I never stated that all old people are complaining, which is your incorrect
paraphrase of my post. My statement is logically equivalent to: "Some
complainers are not old people." Your statement is logically equivalent to
"Some old people are not complainers." "Some" means
"at least one", i.e. you, no doubt others. Your statement is true,
but it does not respond to or contradict my statement, since both statements,
accurately understood, can be true at the same time.
Your post: “Meanwhile, have you submitted feedback to Apple?”
Yes. But see above on the purpose of online communities, in my view,
being at least twofold: (1) community members helping each other with specific problems;
and (2) community members sharing difficulties that they cannot help each other
with, but which might indirectly stimulate participants to convey their concerns
to the provider in question, here obviously via Apple feedback. I simply think
your apparent concept of the purposes of a forum is too restrictive.
iOS 17 Default Contact Screen Difficult to Read
