{"id":43150,"date":"2024-05-08T14:30:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=43150"},"modified":"2024-05-10T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:27:52","slug":"turning-off-ios-17-contact-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/08\/turning-off-ios-17-contact-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Off iOS 17 Contact Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/ios-and-ipados-17-the-macstories-review\/10\/#apps\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/ios-and-ipados-17-the-macstories-review\/10\/#apps\">\n<p>In iOS 17, you can create a contact poster, which is essentially a combination of a profile picture and artwork that will represent you when calling other people on the phone, FaceTime, and other apps compatible with the CallKit framework.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When a call comes in from one of my friends who&rsquo;s created a contact poster on iOS 17, I like that I can see a little bit of their personality and taste in the poster they&rsquo;ve chosen for themselves. Just like profile pictures before, you can choose to automatically share your poster with your contacts; you can either accept someone else&rsquo;s poster or override it with your own poster for them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@leebennett\/111292235778447372\">A. Lee Bennett Jr.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@leebennett\/111292235778447372\">\n<p>Getting REALLY pissed at this new Apple behavior of names and photos for a contact on MY phone getting changed to something set by the other person. I know I can revert it to what I had, but WHY THE #^&euro;% do I have to revert it? I was fine with it asking me if I wanted the suggested new info, but leave my existing info alone!!! Besides, the contact photo I set for people is often far better than the low resolution crap or their kid, or stupid Memoji they send me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I don&rsquo;t like the way this feature was implemented:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><p>When a contact sets their contact poster, iOS tells me this and makes it look like I can opt into accepting the poster. I want to keep the custom photo that I set, so I just click the &#xD7; button to remove the &ldquo;notification.&rdquo; iOS updates my contact anyway.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Sometimes it replaces my chosen photo with one chosen by the contact. But other times it replaces my photo with the placeholder that just shows the contact&rsquo;s initials on a black background.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>This syncs to my Mac, and in the Mac version of Contacts there does not seem to be a way to reject the contact poster. It appears as though my custom photo was simply deleted.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>The iOS version of Contacts does have a <strong>Contact Photo &amp; Poster<\/strong> control where I can choose either the <strong>Latest Photo<\/strong> (or initials, as the case may be) or my <strong>Custom Photo<\/strong>. The former option doesn&rsquo;t make sense because my custom photo might be <em>newer<\/em> than the one the contact set. The latter option says <strong>Ask Before Updating<\/strong>, which I guess means that in the future iOS will <em>not<\/em> opt me in. But there is no way to opt out ahead of time or to bulk-restore custom photos for multiple contacts.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/turn-off-incoming-contact-posters.2396314\/\">MacRumors Forum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/iphone\/comments\/16pbm6b\/how_to_remove_contact_poster\/\">Reddit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/255197475\">Apple Discussions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/18\/ios-17-moves-end-call-button\/\">iOS 17 Moves &ldquo;End Call&rdquo; Button<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/13\/ios-17-public-beta\/\">iOS 17 Public Beta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/05\/ios-17-announced\/\">iOS 17 Announced<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"turning-off-ios-17-contact-posters-update-2024-05-09\">Update (2024-05-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@iKyle\/112408392675588437\">Kyle Howells<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@iKyle\/112408392675588437\"><p>The &ldquo;iOS 17 Contact Posters&rdquo; feature being on by default, and overriding what I have already set for my contact, on my phone, is an abomination that should never have been approved.<\/p><p>That feature makes me angry with how disrespectful and user hostile it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"turning-off-ios-17-contact-posters-update-2024-05-10\">Update (2024-05-10): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@objc\/112415704294589973\">Tanner Bennett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@objc\/112415704294589973\"><p>I have to pull out my iOS 14 iPhone 12 to change a contact photo without going through the poster nonsense.<\/p><p>I don&rsquo;t even know if you CAN use the cool emoji contact picture creator anymore on iOS 17!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The other problem I have is that sometimes reverting the photo in Contacts does not fix it in Messages. One of my Messages conversations, which previously had a custom photo I took, now only shows the initials on a black background.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Viticci: In iOS 17, you can create a contact poster, which is essentially a combination of a profile picture and artwork that will represent you when calling other people on the phone, FaceTime, and other apps compatible with the CallKit framework. [&#8230;] When a call comes in from one of my friends who&rsquo;s created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-05-08T18:30:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"4c70a7b0-a6b2-4527-a613-694e1653aa4e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-05-10T15:27:57Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ATHCnsKayRSemE2lOFlOqTg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[176,31,2321,30,2385],"class_list":["post-43150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-contacts","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-mac","tag-macos-14-sonoma"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43175,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43150\/revisions\/43175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}