How to make caller id photo default back to thumbnail on iPhone 5 iOS 6

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How to make caller id photo default back to thumbnail on iPhone 5 iOS 6

Hello all,

Long story short:

1/ Before iOS 6, in order to have your caller ID photos pop up as thumbnails when either making or receiving calls, you had to use iPhoto to set a "face" for that contact.

2/ Then you would go into Contacts and 'edit' the contact info and photo, and choose the thumbnail from the iPhoto Faces selection.

3/ Then, whenever you would make a call or receive a call from that contact, the thumbnail would appear in the upper right hand corner of the iPhone screen.

4/ I have since received my iPhone 5 running iOS 6.

5/ My old contacts saved via iCloud remain the same - thumbnail.

6/ However any new contacts with photos, even after going throught the same workflow now appear as full screen on the iPhone 5 when making or receiving calls.

Does anyone know how to force the caller id photo to remain a thumbnail on the caller screen with iPhone 5 or iOS 6?

It is so funny that so many users WANT the full screen photo id, but the thumbnail view is so much cleaner. I much prefer the thumbnail view of the caller ID photo.

Thanks all!!

-josue

iPhone 5, iOS 6, White, 32GB, AT&T

Posted on Oct 1, 2012 3:15 PM

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Josue.Alvarez Author

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Oct 1, 2012 4:15 PM in response to Josue.Alvarez

I think I just answered my own question.

Regardless of whether or not you use iPhoto and Faces to add the name and photo to a contact, IF you took the photo with your iPhone, the photo will default to a full screen photo when the contact makes a call or you call that contact.

The work around I used was to go into iPhoto, take a screen grab of the photo I originally took with my iPhone and re-import the screen grab into iPhoto.

I then added the Faces name through iPhoto on the new imported screen grab. After closing iPhoto, I went back into contact, and selected the contact's name.

I hit 'edit' and let the Faces selection refresh (takes a moment). After refreshing, the new screen grab Faces thumbnail appeared and I selected it.

After letting iCloud update my Contacts on my iPhone 5, i went in and called the contact. The contact's photo appeared as a thumbnail.

Kind of silly that you can't take Contact Thumbnail photos with the iPhone, but I guess it's the way the software is written.

Hope this helps someone.

Cheers / Josue

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Baskman

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Nov 10, 2012 11:27 AM in response to Josue.Alvarez

Hi Josue.

Mine is just the opposite problem, I have an iPhone 5, just updated my IOS6 version and I always get a thumbnail photo of the caller when receiving or making a call. I would like to get a full screen caller ID photo. I tried creating a new contact with a new photo on the iPhone 5, editing an existing contact photo, etc. but unsuccessfully. Any ideas?

Thanks.

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Nov 19, 2012 12:39 AM in response to Baskman

Hello Baskman,

Wow. That's odd. Full screen photos are supposed to be the default. Also, any photo taken with the iPhone to be used as a photo ID for a contact, should default to full screen.

The only long-winded solution I can think of would be to upload your photos onto your iPhone, grab a screen shot of each, thus creating a new id photo, and then assigning those to your contacts.

Long way around what should be a simple solution. I'm not sure why apple just doesn't make this as easy as adding a general setting that includes an option for either Thumbnail or Full Screen.

good luck!

-josue

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