Our guide below will show you how to find the setting for the contact photos so that you can turn it off. The conversations window in the Messages app will then only show a contact name, a preview of the conversation, and the date or time of the last message.
Remove Contact Photos from Messages in iOS 9
The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 9.1. The contact photos in the Messages app are only available on the iPhone 6 and newer models. If you would like to keep the contact photos, but are only seeing a blank silhouette, then learn how to add a picture to a contact on an iPhone.
Now when you go back and open the Messages app, the contact picture to the left of the contact name should be gone, which can really help to reduce the clutter on this screen. Do you need to find the phone number for one of your contacts so that you can share it with someone else, or so that you can enter that information on a form? Learn how to find a contact’s phone number that you have created and saved to your iPhone. After receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science he spent several years working in IT management for small businesses. However, he now works full time writing content online and creating websites. His main writing topics include iPhones, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Android, and Photoshop, but he has also written about many other tech topics as well. Read his full bio here.
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