How to Add a Picture to an iPhone Contact

Adding contacts to your iPhone is a great way to store phone numbers, emails, addresses, and more.

But you can do some additional customization with the contacts that you create, such as including a picture for that contact.

Our tutorial below will show you how to select an existing iPhone contact and assign a picture ot that contact so that you see it in several of the apps where you can contact that person.

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How to Set a Contact Picture on an iPhone

  1. Open the Phone app.
  2. Choose the Contacts tab.
  3. Select the contact.
  4. Tap Edit at the top-right corner.
  5. Touch the Add Photo button.
  6. Select a picture to use.
  7. Crop the image.
  8. Tap Choose at the upper-right corner.

Our guide continues below with additional information about how to add a picture to a contact on an iPhone, including pictures of these steps.

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The contact system on the iPhone 5 is very good, and it has had a lot of fun and useful features for a while.

One of these features is the ability to assign pictures to your contacts, which makes it much easier to tell who is calling you if you are standing away from your phone.

Plus, it’s just fun to see a picture when a friend or family member calls, instead of just their name.

But if you are having trouble figuring out how to assign a picture to a contact in iOS 7, then you can follow the steps outlined below.

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Video on Adding iPhone Contact Pictures

Assigning Pictures to Contacts in iOS 7 (Guide with Pictures)

The process for doing this is somewhat similar to how it was in earlier versions of iOS, but there are some minor changes that could be confusing if you previously knew how to add pictures to your iPhone contacts.

We are going to perform the tutorial below under the assumption that you already have the picture that you want to use for your contact, but you will also have the option of taking a picture of a contact and adding it during the process.

Step 1: Touch the Phone icon.

touch the phone icon

Step 2: Select the Contacts option at the bottom of the screen.

touch the contacts option at the bottom of the screen

Step 3: Touch the name of the contact to which you want to add a picture.

select the contact to which you want to add a picture

Step 4: Step 4: Touch the blue Edit link at the top-right corner of the screen.

touch the edit button at the top-right of the screen

Step 5: Touch the Add photo circle at the top-left corner of the screen.

touch the add photo link

Step 6: Touch the Choose Photo option.

Note that this is the point where you could alternatively elect to take a picture of a contact instead by selecting the Take Photo option.

how to add a picture to a contact in ios 7 on the iphone 5

Step 7: Touch the name of the album containing the picture that you want to use.

select the album containing the picture you want to use

Step 8: Touch the thumbnail image of the picture that you want to use as the contact photo.

Step 9: Move the circle on the screen around until it is correctly positioned on the portion of the image that you want to use as the contact image, then touch the Choose button.

move the circle to position the image, then touch the choose button

Step 10: Touch the Done button at the top-right corner of the screen.

touch the done link

Note that you can use the pinch feature to zoom in and out on the image while you are positioning the circle. For more help on zooming with the iPhone camera, you can read this article.

Now that you know how ot assign a picture to a contact on your iPhone you will be able to start customizing this aspect of your device so that you see pictures of your friends and family when they call you, or when you text them.

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