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Quite a few contacts on my Mac don't appear on iPhone Contacts. I tried making a minor edit on one of the missing contacts on the Mac and then changing it back to see if making an update would cause it to sync, but no luck. Is there a way to force a sync so my iPhone Contacts match the Mac Contacts?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.1
Contacts uses the default mail account but if you turn off contacts for every account except for iCloud then they will always be synced. I am going to give you the step by step to get them all.
On iPhone -
On Mac
On iCloud.com
Contacts uses the default mail account but if you turn off contacts for every account except for iCloud then they will always be synced. I am going to give you the step by step to get them all.
On iPhone -
On Mac
On iCloud.com
Done but not fixed. My settings already had icloud contacts on, the mail ones off on both the Mac and iPhone, but I've now turned icloud contacts off on the phone. The contacts on icloud.com are missing the contacts. I tried refreshing, but they're still missing.
Ah, that is a good question. I apologize it has been a long time since I dealt with contacts so please have patience with me.
Thanks for your help solving this!
your mail accounts are where the contacts come from.
Its because they are on the phone. Let me think about this for a second. On iPhone you may have to turn contacts on for all accounts, then do an iCloud backup then start the list. Because we already know that the contacts are there somewhere.
The contacts aren't on the phone. That's what got me to post the question in the first place - some contacts in Mac Contacts aren't appearing on the phone Contacts. Your suggetions got to me to check iCloud.com, so now I know the missing contacts are missing in iCloud Contacts which explains why they aren't on the phone. The question is why aren't they transferring from the Mac to iCloud.com even though Internet Accounts/iCloud/Contacts is on?
I'm not sure what my mail accounts have to do with this. I'm just trying to get all the contacts in my Mac Contacts app to show up in my iPhone Contacts app.
But I never enter contacts from my mail accounts. I enter them directly in Contacts.
Go into each of your mail accounts and turn off contacts. Make sure it is turned on for iCloud. Manage and delete contacts on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
I updated this list here - Contacts. iCloud contacts must be on for iCloud.com contacts to show up.
forgot to mention that you should make sure everything has the latest iOS and macOS
iCloud Contacts on the Mac is on. It's off on the iPhone at the moment, but iCloud.com doesn't have all the Contacts on my Mac although I refreshed it.
you are very welcome! I apologize again for taking so long. I had to remember how to do it.
Contacts doesn't sync properly between Mac and iPhone
