Contacts app is a nightmare on Tahoe.

[JoeSilver]

Damn. This is a mess. Aren't your contacts on the phone and your mac supposed to be synced and contain the same info? They don't. At least as far as my main personal contact is concerned. What I'm seeing:

On my phone, there are some 5 or more extra phone numbers associated with my contact, that aren't mine, and when I click the edit button they aren't there to delete. perhaps these got added from phone spoofing or something, I don't know, but I can't delete them.

On my mac, my main contact doesn't have these numbers. Where's the sync feature? I recently moved, so I changed my address, but it's still showing my old address as home, my new address as other, but when I click edit, the old address doesn't show up so it can't be removed.

Same for me but with a couple of extra emails, they appear only in the info, not in the editing panel.

Regarding the sync: my experience is that contacts between iPhone and Mac do eventually sync, but it takes some time.
Also, editing the info of an unknown number, or associating it to an existing contact, is not immediate between Phone app and Contacts. And again, it takes time to be synced between iPhone and Mac.
But all appears quite confusing and unreliable.

Fine, I'll create a new contact for myself, but when I try to do that, it quits about 10 seconds in, everything just gone.

Hopefully some attention will be paid to this for before the next version.

My impression is that the iPhone's app is slightly better, more predictable. But even if that's the case, it doesn't justify the sloppy behaviour of the Mac's Contacts.

 

[MareLuce]

Regarding the sync: my experience is that contacts between iPhone and Mac do eventually sync, but it takes some time.

re: "it takes some time"
Are you referring to the time it takes

From: When I backup and Sync my iPhone when connected to Finder on the MBP. In the "info" tab, using the option to sync all contacts to the MBP

To: When that contact will show up in Contacts on my MBP?

OR (actually probably you mean...) the time it takes if you are syncing contacts via iCloud
so
iPhone Contacts app change made--> iCloud --> MacOS Contacts change appears

 

[JoeSilver]

re: "it takes some time"
Are you referring to the time it takes

From: When I backup and Sync my iPhone when connected to Finder on the MBP. In the "info" tab, using the option to sync all contacts to the MBP

To: When that contact will show up in Contacts on my MBP?

I'm not sure what this means. I don't manually connect the iPhone to the Mac and I don't know where to find that panel in your screenshot.

OR (actually probably you mean...) the time it takes if you are syncing contacts via iCloud
so
iPhone Contacts app change made--> iCloud --> MacOS Contacts change appears

Yes, I mean automatically, via iCloud.

 

[MareLuce]

Ah, thanks. I can’t (security reasons) use the cloud path to get my contacts to my MBP. I use a thunderbolt 3 cable and Finder sync.

 

[DPUser]

I"ve had issues with Contacts for years, and I'm still on Sequoia. Adding Contacts to Lists is always trouble now... might be able to add two or three, then I must quit and restart Contacts to add more.

I rebuilt the Contacts database by starting from scratch form a VCard Export. Brought down my library size substantially, but the problems persist.

I sent a note to Apple at the Contacts Suggestion site.

 

[sparkie7]

I'm having the same problem with MacOS Tahoe not displaying my contact details properly. I have to hit EDIT to see it all and in the right order. WTH is going on, does anyonew have a fix for this?

 

[JoeSilver]

I'm having the same problem with MacOS Tahoe not displaying my contact details properly. I have to hit EDIT to see it all and in the right order. WTH is going on, does anyonew have a fix for this?

Unfortunately, no.

Just tried again.

In my case, my card showed a couple of emails that I don't use anymore and if I clicked Edit to remove them, they were not there. Then I clicked Done and they were still there.

I have quit Contacts and reopened it. Magically... my card doesn't contain those emails anymore.

If you have an iPhone, I recommend trying to edit the details in the iPhone's app, but not when Contacts is running on the Mac. Then save, close and open again.

 

[sparkie7]

Unfortunately, no.

Just tried again.

In my case, my card showed a couple of emails that I don't use anymore and if I clicked Edit to remove them, they were not there. Then I clicked Done and they were still there.

I have quit Contacts and reopened it. Magically... my card doesn't contain those emails anymore.

If you have an iPhone, I recommend trying to edit the details in the iPhone's app, but not when Contacts is running on the Mac. Then save, close and open again.

Thanks, just tried. No luck :-/

 

[sgtaylor5]

I tried using cardhop, but it wouldn’t let me edit my contacts. Does anybody have simple alternatives, or are we stuck?

Edit: using Fastmail with CardDAV.