My iCloud contacts sync across my iPhone and iPad, and with iCloud.com. But even though iCloud on my Mac is signed in to the same AppleID, and Contacts are enabled, the contacts on the Mac do not sync with all the others. I have tried signing out of my AppleID and back in on the Mac, and I have tried changing my AppleID password. Any other ideas?
iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 13.2
OlderThanThou wrote:
My iCloud contacts sync across my iPhone and iPad, and with iCloud.com. But even though iCloud on my Mac is signed in to the same AppleID, and Contacts are enabled, the contacts on the Mac do not sync with all the others. I have tried signing out of my AppleID and back in on the Mac, and I have tried changing my AppleID password. Any other ideas?
Old issue, new issue, what changed?
I see no wide spread issue on the server, not to say there are not some local issues...
typically trying back later would be the course of action:
ref: Apple - Support - System Status
Signing out and back in again is the recommended resolve for issues like yours
Sign out of iCloud on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, Mac...
I suppose you can sign out/in of iCloud on your other devices as well and compare your results.
or wait a few days and see if it changes.
The current stable release of Ventura including bug fixes, security updates is macOS Ventura 13.2.1
Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support
Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support
Does your Contacts > Settings window look like this? Just wondering if it got disabled here when you signed out, but somehow didn't get enabled here when it hung on merging. Even though it may show enabled in the iCloud settings.
You don't have the "On My Mac" section in the sidebar of Contacts do you?
I don't have it on mine, but I do in Notes. Anything in this section will not be synced in iCloud. I though maybe when the signed out of iCloud and kept a copy, it saved them there and these ones are not syncing.
This has been going on for about six weeks. Originally, I signed out of iCloud on my Mac, telling it to save local copies of everything, and then signed back in. Afterwards, I had three copies of most of my contacts. Telling Contacts on the Mac to merge duplicates hung the machine. Ever since, everything syncs correctly except for the contacts. My iPhone, iPad, and iCloud.com all show the same contacts, but many of them are missing. The ones on the Mac are now correct, but I cannot get them to sync with the other three. Since iCloud.com has the same set of corrupted contacts as the other two devices, I believe that the Mac is not syncing. I have signed out and back in to everything, and changed the iCloud password, which forces everything to log back in. Before I did that, I exported the contacts from the Mac's Contacts app, and then re-imported them afterwards.
Actually, unchecking Enable this account and then rechecking it seems to have solved the problem. Thanks!
Yep, that's exactly what it looks like. I've also tried setting the Fetch to every minute, but it made no difference.
Good to hear you got it fixed!
iCloud contact sync failure
