[aroon]

BUG ALERT!

The contact sync feature has an option to replace your existing photos in your contacts and is disabled by default.

Unfortunately, it seems to have gone ahead and replaced many of the photos I have set for contacts. It hasn't done it for all of them but it has for many of them. I'm not sure about all the details of the bug but be aware that it's likely your pictures will be replaced whether you want them to or not.

You also may have to sync a couple times before photos are synced to all the relevant contacts. Their photo download protocol looks pretty chatty and I guess some of the requests fail and they aren't re-trying until the next sync session.

[blasdel]

I can't figure out how to cause it to sync a second time -- it's not in the Settings.app pane and there's no in-app preferences I can find.

[jdagostino]

Go to your friends list and in the top right hand corner is a sync button - turn off the contact sync and on to sync the contacts again