Can't set my own contact card on new M4 Pro Macbook Pro

[Mity]

I bought an M4 Pro MBP yesterday. I added my Google account and then synced my contacts, as normal. When I try to select one of my contacts (me) for my own contact card, it doesn't work. I get a prompt asking me if I'm sure but the Contacts app doesn't do anything. When I go to Card >>> Go to my card, it's grayed out.

However, this is not the case on my old M1 Macbook Air. Everything is working as it should. My card is showing as it always has.

Anyone else having this issue on a newer machine? I'm assuming this is a bug.

 

[splifingate]

I bought an M4 Pro MBP yesterday. I added my Google account and then synced my contacts, as normal. When I try to select one of my contacts (me) for my own contact card, it doesn't work. I get a prompt asking me if I'm sure but the Contacts app doesn't do anything. When I go to Card >>> Go to my card, it's grayed out.

However, this is not the case on my old M1 Macbook Air. Everything is working as it should. My card is showing as it always has.

Anyone else having this issue on a newer machine? I'm assuming this is a bug.

I do not have this issue with my M2 Studio/Sequoia 15.3.1 🤷‍♂️

 

[jagooch]

I'm having the same problem with Fastmail Contacts. I have rebooted and opened Contacts in safe mode ( holding shift). This is really weird. I'm on MacOS 15.4.1 , so latest and greatest version!

However, on my iPhone Contacts, it shows the correct contact card for me. So it seems to be a mac contacts specific issue.

 

[Mity]

I figured out what happened. If the default personal contact card (My Card) at the very top of the Contact app gets deleted, then you cannot simply recreate it by navigating to your own contact card and selecting "Make this my card", as was the case previously. This is obviously a bug. The only solution I could find was to factory reset my Mac.

 

[jefbrr]

I had the same issue, and was able to fix it by running some AppleScript

tell application "Contacts"
    set my card to person "YOUR NAME HERE"
    save
end tell

 

[jagooch]

I had the same issue, and was able to fix it by running some AppleScript

tell application "Contacts"
    set my card to person "YOUR NAME HERE"
    save
end tell

Wtf? This actually worked!

It may not fix the other bugs in Contacts, like having to open it in safe mode to add people to groups, but I have the super special "my contact card" symbol next to my contact card now.

I'm saving this script for future use, since Contacts is buggier than a pesticide research facility.

 

[PD_NZ]

Can confirm the AppleScript fix worked for me too. Thank you jefbrr!

 

[Devon_Phil]

I had the same problem with an M4 MacBook Air on 15.5. Your AppleScript fix is a winner. Thanks @jefbrr

 

[fogdogit]

I'm having this same issue, but when I run the AppleScript, it results in "missing value". I copied and pasted the script above into Script Editor, changed "YOUR NAME HERE" to my name as it is in Contacts. Can anyone give me guidance on this?

 

[14dcutaneo]

I had the same issue, and was able to fix it by running some AppleScript

tell application "Contacts"
    set my card to person "YOUR NAME HERE"
    save
end tell

Wow! This script worked, thank you!

I'm having this same issue, but when I run the AppleScript, it results in "missing value". I copied and pasted the script above into Script Editor, changed "YOUR NAME HERE" to my name as it is in Contacts. Can anyone give me guidance on this?

I had the same result, but if you go into the contacts app it should be changed despite the message

 

[BotchQue]

Thanks for posting the AppleScript. It's still too close to Happy Hour for me to try it tonight, but first thing tomorrow... for some reason my sister's card keeps showing up. I'm still on M1's with the latest OS's.

 

[dypark]

Glad I found this. the script worked to fix my issue. 👏

 

[turbineseaplane]

Script worked! Thank you so much @jefbrr

 

[jkratz.36]

I just ran into this as well. It appears to have something to do with the user account. If you go into System Settings->Users and Groups and select your account there is a "open contact card" button. When I clicked that it created a new contact in Contacts with the first name being my user name and nothing else. That ended up syncing up to Fastmail. I then just moved all the details over.

The script works as well but on my machine it created the card in "On My Mac" which I don't want.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Anyone know if we can somehow disable/remove the "On my Mac" Contacts account (like you can in Calendar)?

Like others in here, I use Fastmail exclusively for Contacts/Calendar and the local account thing just causes possible messes.

 

[space-e]

Excellent fix - Thank You very much! Gold Star for jefbrr!!

For my Contacts wish, I wish Contacts accounts could be made Read-Only. I have a Google Workspace account that holds my company directory, and employees continually add their Contacts to that directory instead of to their On My Mac directory...

Again, thanks - another issue Off The Old List!