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:
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.
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.
