Unable to add Emoji to Contact Photo after iOS 17 Update

None of the above description achieves what I - and most likely the original poster - want: an emoji as the main thing comming up for the contact.

It does not help me to see an image or monogram and just have the emoji as the tiny bubble or contact photo.

For things like my electrician, plumber, garage etc it is so much better to see an emoji that conveys what they do. So many of my contacts have the same first name. I will not take a picture of the guy behind the desk or installing sockets in my house. I do not have this personal connection and just seeing monograms when many of them have the same first name is prone to have me call the wrong contact.

I know, that you want things to be beautiful and personal, but that simply gets in the way of practical. And having to go through six steps just to see the emoji option plus it then not even working as hoped is frustrating. You could have added the new options but kept what was there.

I had this problem too and found the fix! First assign the poster - just choose monogram, then you can choose the emoji for the contact photo

mobilone wrote:

So I don’t way in on much.

BRING BACK EMOJIS FOR CONTACT IMAGE PLEASE! Thank you in advance.

This is a user-to-user technical support forum. No matter how much you yell, no one here can make any changes in iOS. Apple doesn't read here for feedback or suggestion. However, you can let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Meanwhile, it does seem that people have made suggestion on how to get ywhat you want here in this thread. Consider reading it from the beginning.

Hi WeddingWoman,

To clarify, you do not see the Emoji option in the list? If so, we'd recommend ensuring the Emoji keyboard is enabled under Settings  > General > Keyboard.

If you are still unable to use the Emoji keyboard in the Contacts app, we'd advise contacting Apple Support to take a closer look.

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Cheers!

It works but u still have to use a picture and even if not I don’t like it how it makes the name it makes it big and strange

This solution works -- but it is a bit more complicated than the way it sounds. It's a shortcut around what apple took away. So you do go in to the contact and hit edit. The contact will come up and you can click "add photo". When you do that - it gives you choices for your "poster". That is when you pick "monogram". That will take you to a screen where you can change the name or initials -- just ignore it and hit "done" in top right corner. That will then show you a preview of the "poster" (what you see when contact comes up). Hit continue. On the next screen -- you will get a choice to "choose a different photo" and that is where you get option to add emoji.

JohnnyRifle wrote:

Please stop posting this! IT DOES NOT WORK. People keep telling you this so why do you keep posting it?!

As the person to whom you're replying hasn't posted in this thread since last November, I would say they have already stopped.

Yes the Memoji is the dumbest thing ever. I love using emojis for contacts. So much easier to find the text thread I want without searching.

smh

wait until you see what they’re doing to email sorting. 🙄

why is that the emoji is the same color with the text it’s annoying how do I resolve this

This is it, thank you!!!

Seriously, that should not have taken me 5+ minutes to figure out? All of my contact pics are emojis

Thank you !!!!

New creations of the IOS 17 with emojis