Can I change white text in Contacts notes on iOS 26?

In addition to what I said earlier, open the contact card, Click Contact Photo & Poster (if available for that contact) and select the dark blue colored option for the Poster. In System settings under Accessibility, go to Per-App Settings (second from the bottom option), Add App and select Contacts. Turn off Reduce Transparency.

Wouldn't you know it, as soon as I posted my previous reply I read that they fixed it. Yes they did thank God. I kept getting updates from Apple because I was beta testing IOS 26. I'll never do the beta testing again. This subject was one of the first notes I sent to Apple about 26. I'm happy they addressed the issue.

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alvinfrommetairie wrote:

Please fix soon

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My eyesight is not as good as it once was, so the white text on pale lavender background is very difficult to read. Certainly, when out and about, it cannot be read in a hurry. None of the mentioned fixes makes it any better for me. I’ve used notes extensively in contacts, so I’m going to try populating other fields with the most important and oft used notes. Here’s hoping Apple are reading this lot and fix in the next instalment.

wreckedangles wrote:

If Notes in Contacts is a feature, it is implied that it is a solid feature, not flaky. That's not an answer to put on the user as a cautionary explanation. I suggest either solving the issue or making a readable feature, please.

Hello~ Do you have a solution? If so please let Apple know as we are merely fellow forum users just like yourself.

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~Katana-San~

No longer can one copy text from IOS 26 "Contacts" and paste it to a typically white background document, as the default white text is unreadable against the white background.

To read the text requires at least one, and possibly 2 additional steps, Select the white text, choose a text color, choose text size, and possibly change text font. Then repeat for every additional text group that you need from that contact.

Apple, please provide the option of a white background or the option of black text on any color background.

Text in the body of a contact is fine (black). It’s Notes within a contact that eveyone is complaining about. Only Notes!

This latest iOS update. It’s really a disaster. Can’t read the white notes in my contacts section. Dictation clearly gets words wrong more times than not finger touch element on screen is jittery. Poor performance very poor.

pchipman0413 wrote:

Agree, this is a horrible setting. The Notes on Contacts is almost impossible to read. I hate it and would love to go back to my prior version os IOS.

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Khsjsilver wrote:

This needs to be fixed ASAP.

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I wish I could revert to the previous version of IOS.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

I have reached out to Apple immediately after the update. They responded like a deer in the headlights, even after trying it themselves with screen share acknowledging it was difficult to see.

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Richlomb wrote:

I have reached out to Apple immediately after the update. They responded like a deer in the headlights, even after trying it themselves with screen share acknowledging it was difficult to see.

Apple does not participate in this user-to-user forum. They will not respond to anything here.

Hello Justfoosit. Yes iOS 26.1 "fixed" this one thing, but like you I am disappointed with the Apple developers for ever thinking it was ok. And we are still left with a strange purple-ish color in the Contacts app, even when Dark Mode is turned on. So in a sense this is still broken. In Dark Mode, it should be white text on a black background like it was in iOS 18. A lack of consistent application of Dark Mode lowers my confidence in iOS all around to do what I want with other toggles. What if I turn on a privacy toggle, and the Apple Developers decide to honor it only 90% of the time? How can I trust my settings preferences are being honored absolutely everywhere when I can't easily know, like I can when Dark Mode is ignored in specific places?