How do I update contact defaults in How do I update contact Lollipop

[Confused Becky]

Good morning, I the past it has been very simple to link contacts and choose default pictures, etc to customize each contact. In Lollipop I have not been able to figure this out and can't find the answer anywhere? Does anyone know how to affords this? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

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okay, so, go to your gallery. select the photo you want to make the contact photo for the person. sadly, if you already saved the contact beforehand it probably won't work (didn't for me, galaxy s5 with lollipop). anyway, select the option to make it a contact picture. you can choose new contact and do it like that. its the only way i got my contacts to have pictures/have emojis in the name.
hope this was of some help at least!

 

[Fer10]

This problem has bothered me a lot; like others said, the 'Mark as Default' feature works in older Android versions/currently with new contacts, but not with old contacts in Lollipop.

However I believe I have found a (cumbersome) work-around.

Go to a contact you want to change the default picture for. If that contact has an email listed, add a new email (a nonsense letter like 'a' works). Save the contact; the application should now notify you the contact has more than one email address and asks you to pick a default. It then takes you to a screen where you can select any default option: contact picture, phone number, etc.

If your contact has no email I imagine adding two new ones would work just as fine.

This worked for me on my Samsung Galaxy S5. It's not the nicest fix but a fix nonetheless. Hopefully it works for all of you

Thanks!!!! It is a strange way of doing it but works!!!