During WWDC 2023, Apple brought a lot of surprises and new features to iOS 17, including the Contact Poster feature. This fun feature helps to customize your contact posters on iPhone. Learn how to use it on iPhone.
First of all, this is really a little novelty of iOS 17. But anyway, it’s the one you’ll face the most every day.
I also admit to not being a fan of customizing profile pictures, ringtones, and other design elements. But it’s easy to see that it’s going to be a hit with iPhone users. Even the airtime dedicated to WWDC 23 shows that Apple agrees.
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How to Use Contacts Poster on iPhone
With iOS 17, you’ll be able to create personalized posters that you can share with your contacts during calls. According to Apple, even third-party apps can use them if developers add the necessary support using the CallKit API.
You can use different fonts, images and even emoji. /next pit
You will be able to activate and create your own contact poster in the Contacts app by turning on the “My Card” option (the smartphone owner’s profile). After activating and customizing a personal contact poster, you will need to allow the poster to be shared, and if you allow it, it can be automatically shared with your contacts.
- In the application contact personaccording to my card under your profile
- choose Photos and contact posters
- according to editThen create a new
- choose camera, picture, Emoticons or Monogram Select the main features of the poster.
- Each option opens the default iOS interface for creating or selecting an image, allowing you to further customize your selection
- The final screen shows a preview of the poster, just press continue apply it
Back on the main Contact Photos and Posters screen, you can activate Share Posters with Contacts under Options Name and photo sharing.
by allowingmobile application To share your poster, you’ll change how others see your identifier by displaying a full-screen image of your poster, even when your smartphone is locked or during a call.
Hopefully Apple increases the limit to avoid being surprised by inappropriate images, which we were unable to test with the iOS 17 developer beta…
Anyway…to avoid these situations, you can also create contact posters for people in your directory. Personalization is easily accomplished by going to the Contacts app and editing your profile, using the same tools and options available to your own contact poster.
You can save multiple posters and swap them based on your mood (or how you feel about other people…). / © kwgeek
As you may have noticed from the screenshots in this article, your creativity is the limit when it comes to getting the most out of your posters.
Most people will definitely get better results than me, especially using the iPhone camera feature, rather than using a rebooted smartphone to install the iOS 17 beta, and of course, have more time to explore the feature.
What do you think of this feature? Do you see yourself using contact posters? Do you think this is an attractive new feature in iOS 17, or are you going to ignore it?
In the same context, read our article on iOS 16 for all its features. Also check out the one on Android 14 so you don’t miss anything on Google’s next mobile OS.