How to Easily Add Photos to Samsung Android Phone Contacts

How to Easily Add Photos to Samsung Android Phone Contacts

If you are looking to add a photo to contact on Samsung phone, but finding it hard to do so, then this article is for you.

You will learn how it’s done, and also how to perform other related tasks.

How to Add Photo to a Contact on Samsung Android Phone

This guide can also be applied to most Android devices.

Open the Contacts app, then search for, and select the contact you want to assign a photo.

Click on the empty area that is above the contact details, or just select Edit Contact.

Select either Take Photo, or Choose Photo From Gallery – if you just want to snap the picture or you want to select one from gallery, respectively.

If prompted, crop the area of the image you need and then tap on Save.

Yes, it’s that simple!

You can now assign photos to all other contacts by following the same procedure.

If you’ve tried the step above, and the picture disappeared after an hour, then try clicking on the Add Contact or Edit Contact button.

Click on the “+” circle and you will see “Choose Photo” or “Take Photo.”

One of these options will take you back to the contact in editing mode.

Tap “Save” showing on the top right section of your screen.

It should stay!

Adding Photo to Contact on Samsung Galaxy S8 / S8+

Regardless of what is on your screen, swipe down or up to show all apps.

Please note that these instructions apply to Standard Mode only.

Tap on the Contacts icon, then select a contact, and tap Details.

Tap Edit at the upper-right corner.

Tap on the current image, or the empty image location.

Tap the gallery icon then tap Gallery.

Select the picture you want – if needed, navigate to the appropriate album.

If prompted, position the crop frame over the desired area of the picture and then tap Done.

Tap “Save” at the upper-right corner.

How to Copy Contacts from SIM to Samsung Phone and Vice Versa

You can copy your contacts to your mobile phone from your SIM, or the other way round.

Your contacts is still intact even if you change your SIM or mobile phone.

Press Contacts > Menu key > Import/Export.

Select one of the following options:

Copy contacts from SIM to mobile phone.

Copy contacts from mobile phone to SIM.

If you choose the first option – that is copying contacts from your SIM to your mobile phone, press Import from SIM card > Phone > Select all > then press Done.

The second option – copy contacts from your mobile phone to your SIM.

Press Export to SIM card > Select all > Done, then press OK.

Setting Multiple Pictures on Samsung Lock Screen

Go to the Wallpaper section of your phone’s main settings menu.

Click on it, and you will see a drop-down menu at the top of the screen, and from there, select the Lock Screen option.

Then press the “From Gallery” option located at the bottom left corner of the screen.

Now, you will see an interface from where you can choose multiple images, and this is pretty standard.

You should not have any challenge performing this task.

Once you view the images closely, you will notice small checkbox in the upper left corner of the image which you have to select.

After picking different images, all the selected images would be used in making a new wallpaper on your lock screen.

Make sure you do not use any private image which will be shown on your lock screen because sometimes your phone will be used or viewed by other people and you might want to refrain from using personal pictures.

After choosing the pictures, you will be asked to choose the size of your wallpaper and you have to do all the panning and zooming.

This step would be different for other phones as they all have different size and dimensions of the screen.

Some of the images may get cut and won’t be shown fully.
So choose the dimensions carefully.

When you get to this stage, tap the Set as Wallpaper button located at the bottom of the screen.

After carrying out all the steps mentioned above, once you lock your phone, you will be able to see all the images which you have chosen from the gallery and it’s really a fantastic feature provided by Samsung.

Also, with this feature, you will be able to relive all the memories which you have captured, and feel good about them.

At the end, we can always believe that Samsung will keep coming up with interesting and valuable features which will give the user an amazing experience.

Note that only Samsung Galaxy devices have this feature. The non-Galaxy offerings do not have it.

Conclusion

Now you can add a photo to any of your contacts and even do more, like copy contacts from your SIM to your Samsung Galaxy phone.

Additionally, you can set wallpaper on lock screen using multiples photos on your phone.