contact phone numbers have XSHAREDPHOTODISPLAYPREFALWAYSASK added to them

I’m having the same problem, seems like some sort of virus. Going through 1500 contacts and manually deleting the text from each entry is incredibly frustrating. Anyone have any idea what causes this?

I only noticed it starting the other day when I updated to iOS 17.2.1

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Have you been able to resolve this issue? I've the same problem, and can't find any reference to it elsewhere on the web

Same thing happened to me. Not sure of cause and didn’t happen to every contact.

I am facing the same issue. Any solution yet?

Hi, I wasn’t able to determine the cause either. Only faint hint from a web search was the settings in Messages for sharing photos, which in my case was turned off but I have now set to “Contacts only”. I had a vCard backup from last week so was able to import most of the contacts which just left a few recent ones to edit. The rogue text was added to the last item within each contact: telephone number, email, or within the Notes section when this had been used. Hopefully it doesn’t reoccur, but will do regular vCard exports in the meantime!