How do I sync Contact photos to Outlook.com

Anonymous
2012-09-22T05:33:53+00:00

Is there a way to have contact pictures sync to Outlook.com Contacts/People? When I use the hotmail connector sync my contacts from Desktop Outlook, the cantacts show in Outlook.com, but without the photos. When I have my phone contacts download from Outlook.com there are no photos shown on the phone. If I assign a photo to a contact on the phone, it does not sync back to outlook.com.

I switched from google to outlook.com, but may have to switch back if I cant find a way to fix the outlook.com contact photos. This worked fine on GMail.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-01-06T17:31:17+00:00

    WRONG!

    The point is, we want to add photo's to a desktop outlook client or mobile client and have the photo change propagated to Outlook.com. At present, it does not work.

    You can't even add a photo to a contact using the People hub in Outlook.com which shows that MS want nothing to do with photo's at all (they'll show linked contact photo's i.e. you link your Gmail account contacts to the people hub and it will 'merge' the records and display the photo's that are held in Gmail).

    Still a joke.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-04T22:17:49+00:00

    It DOES work. You have to add photos via the contacts app. They get synced and displayed after that.

    Not with an Outlook.com account. That's the point of the thread.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-04T13:32:18+00:00

    When the original post was made I was still an owner of HTC Radar 4G (WP 7.5), looking back at it your reply isn't what it was. For starters the contact images were never synced with Outlook/Hotmail/Live/MSN or whichever e-mail you own operated by Microsoft.

    We are talking data syncing across multiple platforms here. When I backup my Gmail Contacts and upload the file onto iCloud Contacts everything is synced, including images in most cases. Outlook never had this option, when you uploaded contacts onto Outlook it would import them, but not images. Microsoft design of Contact app was experimental and stupid, lacking practicality.

    In the end, this never seemed to be properly address, as I doubt anyone at Microsoft actually uses their mobile operating system, seeing how poorly made it is.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-04T12:50:02+00:00

    It DOES work. You have to add photos via the contacts app. They get synced and displayed after that.

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