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Tex265
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January 25, 2025 at 2:51 pm #2742469

Since updating to ios 18.2 each of my Recents phone caller’s names are preceded by a grey circle with their one or two initials in it. This is distracting and forces the caller listings to take up more space.

Anyone know how to get rid of those initial circles (note: not talking about contact pictures. Its the same default circle/initial that appears on their contact list if there is a contact).

I’m now also getting icons and circle initials in front of my email in my “All inboxes” email app which I prefer not to have.

Thanks

Windows 10 Pro x64 v22H2 and Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 (RIP)

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- PKCano
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  January 25, 2025 at 3:24 pm #2742478
  
  What you are seeing should be common to Contacts, Messages, phone caller
  In Messages, at the top circle wit 3 dots, set up “Name and Photo”
  In Contacts, at the top, “<Your Name> My Card”, Contact Photo and Poster” > Name and Photo sharing – slider to enable/disable
  
  Phone callers are picking up your Contacts list and showing theirs across the system.
  This may turn it off for you
  Mine is disabled, but some others show up if it’s shared by them.
  
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- Tex265
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  January 26, 2025 at 8:21 am #2742600
  
  PKCano wrote:
  
  In Messages, at the top circle wit 3 dots, set up “Name and Photo”
  
  I don’t see a top circle with 3 dots on my Messages listing, but I do not have my described problem within Messages.
  
  PKCano wrote:
  
  In Contacts, at the top, “ My Card”, Contact Photo and Poster” > Name and Photo sharing – slider to enable/disable
  
  I didn’t enter anything in “My Card”. The circles are not displaying on/in my actual Contacts listings. There is a big version of that grey circle with initials on each of the actual Contact list page(s) created by Apple. I can edit a photo if there is one, but can find no way to remove the circle/initials from this page.
  
  So this circle thing is not on my Message(s) listings and not on my Contacts listing and per info below is no longer on my All Inboxes Mail listing, but is still showing before each of my Recents phone listings since update to 18.2.
  
  Windows 10 Pro x64 v22H2 and Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 (RIP)
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- Myst
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  January 25, 2025 at 11:55 pm #2742541
  
  Go to your “Settings”, “Apps”, “Mail” – scroll down until you see “Show Contact Photos”, toggle it off. Same with “Messages” under the Apps section, scroll down to “Show Contact Photos”, toggle it off.
  
  MacOS iPadOS and sometimes SOS
  
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- Tex265
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  January 26, 2025 at 8:02 am #2742598
  
  Tex265 wrote:
  
  I’m now also getting icons and circle initials in front of my email in my “All inboxes” email app which I prefer not to have.
  
  Thanks Myst, that eliminated the icons/initials from in front of my emails.
  
  Windows 10 Pro x64 v22H2 and Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 (RIP)
  
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  Myst
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  January 26, 2025 at 8:58 pm #2742775
  
  It should also work through Messages app as I noted in my first reply.
  
  MacOS iPadOS and sometimes SOS
  
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  Tex265
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  January 27, 2025 at 8:21 am #2742914
  
  Myst wrote:
  
  t should also work through Messages app
  
  No, I was able turned it off in Messages settings, but it has no effect on Recents phone listing (but see comments by Rick below – looks like an Apple issue).
  
  Windows 10 Pro x64 v22H2 and Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 (RIP)
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- Alex5723
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  January 26, 2025 at 12:20 pm #2742648
  
  Tex265 wrote:
  
  still showing before each of my Recents phone listings since update to 18.2.
  
  You mean like this ?
  
  Initials are replacing callers photos when there are none.
  
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- Tex265
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  January 26, 2025 at 3:00 pm #2742696
  
  Alex5723 wrote:
  
  You mean like this ? Initials are replacing callers photos when there are none.
  
  Yes, exactly. They or photos never showed up on my phone Recents list until the 18.2 update.
  
  I have been able to suppress these in Messages list, Contacts list, and Mail lists but not the Recents phone listing. Any idea how?
  
  Windows 10 Pro x64 v22H2 and Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 (RIP)
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- Rick Corbett
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  January 26, 2025 at 8:53 pm #2742774
  
  Tex265 wrote:
  
  I have been able to suppress these in Messages list, Contacts list, and Mail lists but not the Recents phone listing. Any idea how?
  
  No, but I’ve seen a suggestion in the Apple Support Community to use feedback to suggest that ‘Recents’ in the Phone app is provided with the same toggle as Mail and Messages.
  
  Have a look at Remove Contact Photos in Recents call history of Phone app after iOS 18 upgrade.
  
  Hope this helps…
  
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- evydaemon
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  January 31, 2025 at 10:22 am #2744281
  
  What a crap design “feature”.
  Those inital dots make zero sense but takes away limited horizontal space especially when using larger fonts.
  
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