Setting up group email on Mac

Setting up a group to send emails to on Mac is less fiddly than on IOS, but still a chore. Again, it involves setting up a group in Contacts and emailing the whole group from there

1 Create a group

In your Contacts app, click View> Show Groups to display the groups sidebar, then click on the ‘+’ icon at the bottom of the main window and select ‘New Group’ from the dropdown menu.

2 Select members

A new group will be created in the sidebar. Type in a group name and it will be added alphabetically. Now click on the ‘All Contacts’ group and hold down Cmd and click on members to add.

3 Drag and drop

With all of the contacts that you wish to add to the group highlighted, click, hold and drag them across to your new group. They will then be added, but still kept in ‘All Contacts’ too.

4 Confirm placement

Click on the name of your new group in the Groups sidebar and you should see that all of the desired contacts have been successfully added. We can now think about sending a group email.

5 Right-click group

Right-click or Ctrl+click on the name of the group that you just created in Contacts and select the ‘Send Email to [group name]’ option from the dropdown menu. Your Mail app will launch.

6 Compose and send

A new blank email document will be drafted up in your Mail app with the names of all of the contacts that you added to the group populating the ‘To’ field. Compose and click ‘Send’ to email all.