Contact posters for iOS 17: Customize font, image, and background

One of the big changes to the iOS Phone experience (as well as third-party calling apps) is personalized contact cards. Here’s how iOS 17 Contact Posters look and how you can customize the font, image, and background for you and your friends and family.

Apple continues customization with iOS 17 as it brings the new StandBy smart display feature to iPhone along with the new Contact Posters.

Here’s how Apple describes the new custom contact cards:

“The Phone app is at the heart of the iPhone experience and is getting a major update with personalized contact posters that give users a new way to express themselves. Users can customize how they appear, giving incoming calls a whole new look, and choose beautiful treatments for photos or Memojis, as well as striking typography and font colors. Contact posters will also be available for third-party calling apps.”

Contact posters for iOS 17: Customize font, image, and background

Note: iOS 17 is only available as a developer beta for now. Learn more about installing it in our full guide.

• On iPhone, after installing iOS 17 for the first time, you will see a splash screen asking if you want to “Update your name and photo”, choose Get on
  • If you choose “Set later in Settings”, you can change this at any time in the Contacts app > your contact card (or choose someone else’s contact card > Edit > Edit)
• There are four types of posters to choose from: Camera, Photos, Memoji, and Monogram
• You can customize text, images and backgrounds for each of the poster types – there are tons of options
• You can create multiple contact posters and save them just like iOS Lock Screen to easily switch between them

Here’s what the process looks like and more details:

Once you’re editing a contact poster, tap the name or circle in the bottom left to customize the background and text.

Now you can tap “Done” and choose to use the new photo everywhere:

Edit, add or exchange contact posters

To add, edit, or switch your Contact poster (or for someone else), go to the Contacts app at any time:

• Choose yourself (should be at the top) > tap Contact Photo & Poster > select Edit > tap now To adjust to edit one or swipe all the way to the right Create newor swipe to the one you want to use another
• For someone else > choose them in your Contacts app > choose Edit in the top right corner > choose Edit again under their picture
  • Keep in mind that if you’re not with them and don’t have a picture of them on your iPhone, you don’t have that many options to create a contact poster
• Go through the customization process and choose Done at the end

Creating a custom contact poster for contacts other than your own will disable automatic updates for that person’s own contact poster/photo.

Here are some fun options you can do with photos:

There’s a lot of customization here, such as background and image filter options, dark/light inverted, and more, along with custom text.

What do you think of iOS 17 Contact Posters? Are you excited to use them? Or is it too much? Share in the comments!