How to Make New Photos Full-Screen for Incoming Calls
If you’re adding a new photo for a contact to your iPhone, making it full-screen for incoming calls is simple. Just add the photo to the contact by following these steps:
Open the Contacts app, then tap the contact’s name. On the contact’s information screen, tap Edit. Tap Add Photo (or tap Edit to replace an existing photo). Select Take Photo or Choose Photo. Use the iPhone camera to take a photo or choose one from your Photos app. Move and scale the photo to fit it in the circle. Tap Choose or Use Photo, depending on whether it’s a new photo or a photo you already have. Tap Done. When the person whose contact you edited calls you, the photo you added to their contact info will show up as full screen on your iPhone.
How to Make Existing Photos Phone Full Screen for Calls
Photos that were on your phone and assigned to contacts when you upgraded to your version of the iOS to iOS 7 need different steps. Those photos have been made into the small, circular images, so getting them to full-screen requires another change. You don’t need to take a new picture; just edit the old one and you’ll be back to full-screen photos.
Open the Phone or Contacts app, then tap the contact name. Tap Edit. Tap Edit underneath the current photo. Tap Edit Photo. Move the existing photo a little. You don’t need to edit it. Just make a small change to its position––enough for the iPhone to register that the photo was changed in some small way. Tap Choose. Tap Done. The next time this person calls you, you’ll see the photo in full-screen.
What Happened to Full-Screen Photos for Incoming iPhone Calls?
Getting a call on the iPhone used to mean that the entire screen would fill up with a picture of the person calling you––assuming you had a picture assigned to them in your Contacts app. It was an appealing, highly visual way of knowing who was calling.
That changed in iOS 7. With that version, the full-screen picture was replaced by a small circular version of the picture in the top corner of the incoming call screen. In iOS 8 or higher on your iPhone, you can get full-screen pictures for incoming calls again.
