Contacts not sycning across devices

A. Roger Ricketts wrote:

I'm noticing that a lot of my contacts are not syncing across my devices (iPhone, iPad Mini and MacBook Pro). When I do a search to make a call, a contact that I'm certain I have doesn't show up on my iPhone, either in the Phone app or in Contacts, but they do exist on my laptop. I'm sensing about half my contacts aren't transferring (or at least don't show up) to the iOS devices, however when I type in the number (reading it from my laptop) it does recognize the contact that it couldn't find earlier.

This seems to be a new thing. I'm up to date on my iOS operating system but have not upgraded to Catalina yet because I'm waiting for a specific application to upgrade to 64 bit.

Is this a familiar issue with anyone?

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