Contacts app is a nightmare on Tahoe.

[LynBee]

Okay? So what uhh specifically frustrates you with the contacts app? To me it's just fine

Try exporting selected fields to Excel and you will soon see just one of the problems. Clunky as. You have to export to numbers and then to Excel. I used to be able to select the set of contacts, select fields I wanted, and then export directly to Excel or any other spreadsheet for that matter. I wonder if Apple is employing cheap foreign labour to write these programs. The programmers simply have no idea of the needs of wide range of users.

 

[LynBee]

I use the free version Fantastical on my iPhone (okay with stock iOS Contacts) and I recall trying it on my Mac (less thrilled and deleted) and Cardhop (ditto) some years ago.

But whatever Apple has done to Contacts in Mac 26 (so much wasted space and flickering), along with your posting above had me remember and revisit Cardhop again. Even free version so much better than stock mess. I'm gonna stick with it for now - maybe, eventually, Apple will restore app to stable functionality.
Or not.

Absolutely agree with you. It is one of the most clunky interfaces and seems to have lost many of its features, such as exporting selected fields within a group of selected contacts to a CSV file.

 

[ThrowerGB]

Lots to not like about the new version of Contacts in Tahoe.

• One that bothers me is the dark blue cursor against the dark grey background makes it hard to see. For me at least.
• And yes there's a lot of wasted space
• I haven't yet figured out copy from the app and then paste in another app.
  • In fact, there are many places in the latest versions of MacOS & iOS where actions aren't intuitive. Things like 1 vs 2 vs 3 vs 4 finger swiping etc. I just have to avoid those actions.

It reminds me of being able to tell when human factors folk were left out of the loop.

 

[svenmany]

Lots to not like about the new version of Contacts in Tahoe.

• One that bothers me is the dark blue cursor against the dark grey background makes it hard to see. For me at least.
• And yes there's a lot of wasted space
• I haven't yet figured out copy from the app and then paste in another app.
  • In fact, there are many places in the latest versions of MacOS & iOS where actions aren't intuitive. Things like 1 vs 2 vs 3 vs 4 finger swiping etc. I just have to avoid those actions.

It reminds me of being able to tell when human factors folk were left out of the loop.

What I've started doing, with regard to the color problem, is to have a particular icon that assign to any contact that doesn't have one yet. Currently, I'm tending to use a giraffe head. It seems any choice of a memoji causes the coloring of the whole entry to be the same kind of grey; it's more readable for me. You can also choose an emoji and the background is colored like the background of the emoji. The main benefit for me is that the gradient coloring of the background is removed once I assign something.

The wasted space doesn't affect me since I have a wheel on my mouse. Every time I open a contact, I immediately scroll the content up, covering the spot that has the picture.

 

[MareLuce]

Your workaround - hysterical yet clever

If I were your buddy and saw you had assigned a giraffe emoji to me,
I’d wonder if you thought I had an abnormally long neck ;-)———-