I have all my contacts in my outlook.com account, and access them from various devices: -
- Windows People & Mail apps on Surface Pro 4
- Full Outlook application on Surface Pro 4
- Outlook.com
- Samsung Galaxy S7 contacts (set up via Exchange ActiveSync )
- Lumia 950 People & Mail app (trying to move away from this to the S7)
I want to be able to set a contact photo in one place, and have it appear on all the above devices. And I can.....ONLY If I add the photo on the Lumia 950. But that's not much good, as I'm moving away from that phone.
I did some testing with newly setup contacts, adding a photo in each place and seeing where they synced to. The table below shows the results.
NOTE: All of the other contact information syncs OK everywhere, the table just refers to the syncing of a contact photo.
Add photovia | Full Outlook on Surface | Outlook.com | People App on Surface | People App on Lumia 950 | Contacts on Galaxy S7 |
Full Outlook on Surface | (Source) | NO PHOTO | Synced | NO PHOTO | NO PHOTO |
People app on Surface | Synced | Synced | (Source) | NO PHOTO | NO PHOTO |
Galaxy S7 Contacts | Synced LOW QUALITY | NO PHOTO | Synced LOW QUALITY | Synced LOW QUALITY | (Source) |
Lumia 950 People app | Synced | Synced | Synced | Synced | Synced |
Outlook.com (Not possible to add photos) | | | | | |
This seems crazy! The only way I can have synced contact photos is with the device I'm trying to get rid of. Setting a photo anywhere else means that some places don't get the photo and sometimes its really low resolution (if the
source is the Galaxy S7)
Any ideas? This is consistent and reproducible for me, with freshly created contacts. As I said, the other contact infois syncing between all devices, so I know the accounts are setup correctly.