How to disable the Contact Poster feature in Contacts and Phone app

Response to EchosoftDS

Hi there ,

I found some information about the poster issue . This article tells you how to remove your own poster , for others you can replace their posters with photos .

https://www.wikihow.com/Contact-Posters

This Contacts app has been around for ten years and was given excellent reviews in the App Store.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/easy-contacts/id665856919

☘️ Good Luck !

Reply to EchosoftDS

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These are features designed to enhance usability. They are what they are. You still retain control over your data and it is not used without your consent; hence being asked.

thank you so much this was the only thing that worked for me too

The assign “photo to contact” work around shared by KateGalway is a life saver.

darthcooper wrote:

Don't take it personally, I am glad you enjoy the new feature, but for me the old way worked just fine and I am disappointed that I have to live with a feature that makes me keep something that I neither asked for nor appreciate like you do.

I don't really care about the feature one way or the other. My point was that your implication that no one in their right minds would like the feature might have been wrong.

I hope Apple will give us an option to disable this feature. I like my iPhone just a little bit less now that I am force to live with it this way.

Apple is going to continue to make changes. That is a certainty. You will like some of them and hate others. That's also pretty much certain. Getting overly attached to one way of doing something will just lead to frustration.

You should always use the feedback link I provided to let Apple know which ones you like and which ones you don't.

EchosoftDS wrote:

2) I'm looking for any user in this forum who might have a useful reply in what they may have found as a way to disable this feature, or perhaps a better Contact app. If someone has some useful information on a decent workaround, I'd like to hear it.

And that's fine. But, most of the people posting here are complaining. And, complaining here, while possibly cathartic, won't help bring about the change you want to see.

Repeatedly telling people that Apple doesn't read these comments is not useful and is condescending. This is a forum where Apple customers help each other, not bully others.

So telling people the best way to ask for what they want is bullying? What an absurd thing to say.

EchosoftDS wrote:

Yes, by your repeated posting of the same comment and link, I would consider that bullying and completely absurd on your part. As I stated, this forum is for Apple customers to help each other - by providing alternative solutions or workarounds to problems. Continually posting the same jargon to every poster is not helping. If you don’t have something constructive to contribute to resolving an issue, why not just keep on scrolling.

If people actually read the early parts of a thread, you might have a point—barely. But they don't. So, for now, we'll just have to disagree. As long as the Hosts don't have a problem with how I'm posting, I will continue to post as I deem appropriate.

While I might not label tone trolling "bullying" (I save that for actual bullying), it is certainly a waste of time. But, if that's how you want to spend your time, I'm not going to try to stop you.

Your statement is false. Apple does view these threads... This is from the terms at the bottom of the page:

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novicemacuser62 wrote:

Your statement is false. Apple does view these threads...

I never said they didn't. I said they don't read here for feedback or suggestions. It's always a good idea to read to the end of a sentence before disagreeing with it.

Eldrish wrote:

And, to be clear, I have brought this issue up directly to Apple, and Apple couldn't care less if they tried about the subject.

Apple is not going to make a change just for you. If you submit feedback using the above feedback link, it gets collated with all the other feedback on the subject. The more people who submit feedback, the more likely Apple is to consider changes.

I didn't read the rest of the block of text you posted. It's worth considering the utility of paragraphs in future.

response to muguy

I took your advice ~ customize photo doesn't eliminate the poster and only offers monogram . Customize poster makes them both the same !

Now it's screwed up and I can't figure out how to put it back . 🤷‍♀️

I can provide insight into why they do this. It’s part of the product design process and enables apple to create new features that differentiate them from the competition… however, i do not feel that the features rolled out that go into new production are helpful, and they should be tested further in usability tests as prototypes longer possibly. I believe many are quite harmful. I also feel the features are horribly intrusive and can enable impersonation and fraud like identity theft more readily. Try going into the settings menu for the phone app. Turn off: “sharing name and photo” so if you update your picture and this is turned on, what I didn’t realize was it shows up on everyone else’s phone if you are a contact. If you have privacy concerns as i do turn it off! Cheers.