iMessage is not showing contact pictures - ios9

Yeah, this is an intermittent problem for me too. Certain contacts occasionally lose their picture in Messages. Only certain ones - others never show the problem. The photo is in Contacts and shows up properly in Mail for example. This never happens on my iPad Air 2 or MacBook Air. Only my iPhone 6S.

The simplest workaround I've found is to just add a bogus phone number to the contact. That seems force a resync. It doesn't work for any other contact info - you must add or remove a phone number. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be a permanent fix - I don't know if the other options presented above prevent a recurrence.

No question this is a bug but either Apple is denying it or not putting effort into fixing it. Very annoying. I'm also told they don't read these forums, so likely they don't get this feedback either 😟

I've noticed, FWIW, that the contact details in Messages are missing social meda info that is present in the Contacts app. It makes sense that this could be part of the problem. Does anyone else see that as well?

@iOSSupport: can somebody look into this and let us know ***???

This worked perfectly for me!! For now anyway.

Thanks! That was the only thing that worked for me!!

I recently upgraded to the Iphone 6splus and am having the same issues and none of this stuff fixed the problem. I think it's a bug and hope Apple can fix it. Very frustrating.

This worked for me. Thanks!

Thank you!! It worked! I wish Apple would fix these things...

It was only one contact so for me this solution worked a treat. Many thanks.

Here are steps:

1- Go to settings

2- go to Display and Brightness

3- Click on View

4- You have two options, Standard or Zoom. Pick STANDARD.

5- Go back to messages, you should see pictures beside names!

Hi I am having the same issues but for the iPhone 5s I can't see the contact booble in top.. it just apierce there name but not there contact phontho! Is there anything I can do ?

So what you do is go to settings,

You go to settings, open display and brightness I think then you have to go to standards, and go to imsg in settings and it will say show contact pics mine works so yea

My contact photo want show up in my messages

I'm on iOS 10.3 and my setting aren't the same

I'm not sure how to disable this. Please help!