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How to Show Contact Photos on an iPhone 7

April 23, 2019 By Steven

How to Show Contact Photos on an iPhone 7

Your iPhone has a lot of different options that let you customize the way it looks. These can vary from things like your wallpaper, to assigning pictures to your contacts.

But if you’ve gone through the trouble of adding pictures to your contacts, you may be disappointed to see that those pictures aren’t showing next to text messages conversations. This is happening because there is an option on the Messages menu that you need to enable in order for those contact photos to appear.

Ho to Enable Contact Photos on an iPhone 7

The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 in iOS 12.2. Note that if you haven’t assigned a contact photo to someone, there will simply be a gray circle with the contact’s initials in the space where the photo would go.

Step 1: Open the Settings menu.

open the settings app

Step 2: Scroll down and select the Messages option.

open the messages menu

Step 3: Tap the button to the right of Show Contact Photos.

how to show contact pictures next to text messages on iphone 7

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