In today’s guide, we will take a look at the steps you can follow to enable and customize a Contact Poster on your iPhone. Contact Posters, brings a whole new way for users to make a digital contact card for themselves. One of the best things about the new feature is the ability to customize your contact poster to reflect your personality. You can even make a contact poster for other contacts. When you place a call from an iPhone running iOS 17 to another iPhone, your contact poster will automatically display on the recipient’s screen, provided your number is saved in their contacts. Yes, it will replace the default call layout and show a new digital contact card instead. Want to make a contact poster on your iPhone? You are in the right place, let’s dive right into the steps to create a new contact poster.
How to Make Contact Posters on iPhone for Yourself
First things first, make sure to update your iPhone to the latest iOS 17 update. The Contact Posters feature is available for all iPhones compatible with iOS 17. Before moving to the steps, one thing to keep in mind is, that the contact poster will also change your Apple ID avatar across Apple Devices. If you want to create a contact poster, you can follow these steps. Once done, it will show you the settings where you can update your name, photo, and poster, along with an option to change sharing settings. You can turn the toggle off for Name & Photo Sharing if you don’t want to share your contact poster to be displayed on your friend’s iPhone. There are some additional privacy controls which let you change the sharing controls from Contacts Only to Always Ask. You can change the settings anytime by visiting your Contact Poster inside the Contacts app.
How to Make a Contact Poster on iPhone for Other Contacts
Apple provides the freedom to customize contacts in your Contacts list, including non-iPhone users. However, it’s important to note that the contact poster will only be visible to you. If you want to create a contact poster for other contacts, you can follow these steps. Now you know how to set up and make a Contact Poster on iPhones running on iOS 17, let’s take a look at the different methods to customize contact posters.
How to Customize Contact Posters on iPhone
Similar to the iPhone lock screen, Contact Posters offer a range of customization options. You can take a quick photo for your poster, choose one from the albums, pick your favorite Memoji, or even use Monogram text as a contact poster. Regardless of your choice, here’s a step-by-step guide to customizing contact posters on your iPhone.
How to Change Contact Posters Photo
There are two ways to make a photo as a contact poster, one lets you quickly take a selfie using a Camera, while the other one lets you pick a cool photo from the photos album. Here’s how you can change photo in Contact Posters.
How to Use Memoji as Contact Posters on iPhone
Memoji is another way to express yourself and you can even use Memoji for Contact Posters. Follow these steps to use Memoji as a Contact Posters in iOS 17.
How to Create a Monogram Text as a Contact Poster
If you want to go simple, you can use the Monogram option and style the contact poster with text only. Here’s how you can make a stunning Contact Poster on your iPhone using Monogram.
How to Share Contact Posters on iPhone
Whether you want to share your contact with your new friend or simply want to flaunt a recently created cool new Contact Poster, you can do them all by using the NameDrop feature. AirDrop is one of the best features on iOS, you can use it for share photos, videos, files, PDFs, and more. With iOS 17, you can share your contacts using AirDrop, the feature is dubbed as NameDrop. It lets you share your Contact Card with any iPhone user running on iOS 17, you can follow our step by step guide to check how to use NameDrop on iPhone. If you still have any queries related to Contact Posters on iOS 17, then leave a comment in the comment box. Also, share this article with your friends.
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