How to Add, Remove, and Sync New Contacts on Your Mac
One of the many cool things about owning an Apple device is the seamless synchronization you get to enjoy across all your devices. This synchronization extends to your Mac, allowing you to use your Apple ID to sync contacts between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. This way, you’re able to manage your contacts with the broader UI of macOS.
While you can do many other things with the built-in Contacts app in macOS, here we’ll show you the basics, like adding, removing, and syncing contacts on your Mac.
How to Add a Contact on Your Mac
Adding a contact is one of the primary steps to managing contacts on your computer. The steps are quite different from an iPhone (asiPhones offer different ways to organize your contacts), and you might run into difficulty if you expect it to be the same.
So, here’s how to add a contact on your Mac:
You can also add extra fields to the new contact by clicking theplusicon again and selecting whatever field you want to add. Get creative and organize your contacts as you wish; you can add anything from birthdays to prefixes and suffixes.
How to Remove a Contact From Your Mac
The second part of managing contacts is removing existing contacts you no longer need. So, if you think you have an unnecessary contact card, here’s how to remove it:
However, you should probably avoid spending time deleting duplicate contacts one by one; there’s an easier way to do so by clickingCardin the menu bar (while in the Contacts app) and selectingLook for Duplicates.
How to Sync Your Contacts on a Mac
Because your Mac isn’t usually the primary place you might be building your list of contacts, syncing is a relatively stress-free way of importing your contacts from other devices and websites. What’s better is that the changes you make on contact cards in Contacts will sync across all your connected accounts and devices.
This is one of the reasonswe recommend using an Apple ID on a new Macinstead of using it logged out. Since the most popular sources of contacts are from iPhone and Android devices, we’ll show you how to sync contacts from not just your Apple ID but also your Google account.
Follow these steps to add your Apple ID:
If you don’t have an Apple ID, we have a helpful guide oncreating a new Apple ID on any device.
For Google or any other third-party email accounts, follow these steps:
Soon after adding it, Contacts will make a new list with your newly added account. it’s possible to access the list by checking for it on the left pane.
Organize Your Contacts on Your Mac
While Macs aren’t what you might imagine when you want to do an extensive organization of your contacts, it’s clear that it could be better for managing them than other devices. The methods are fairly simple, the UI is relatively straightforward, and the screen can be as big as you want. So, if ever you feel like your contacts are due for an extensive reorganization, you should pick your Mac over your iPhone.
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