Apple tips

From Stormfront, your local Apple experts

Contacts

It’s possible to end up with contact details spread among several places: cloud-based services and devices’ local storage. While this is normally not a problem, if you plan to retire an email address or want to consolidate things, you’ll need to dig around to check where they’re stored.

In the Contacts app, choose View > Show Groups (Mac) or tap Groups (iOS). Select a group (Mac) or untick those you want to hide (iOS) to determine where contacts are stored. (Remember to make them all visible again afterwards.)

Often the majority of contacts are stored in one group (iCloud, say), but a few may be on your device or in a second cloud-based service that you’ve set up. We recommend deciding on one account to store them; move them to it on your Mac, then use Card > Look for Duplicates.

Check in the Internet Accounts pane (Mac) and Settings > Passwords & Accounts (iOS) that contacts sync only with that account, and that it’s also the default one used by the app.