iCloud Contacts failing to sync after High Sierra

Not sure what you mean. As long as you have iCloud syncing your contacts (or anything else it can sync), they should appear the same on all devices syncing with that iCloud account (i.e.. your phone, computers, iPads etc.) It should be that if I change something on my Mac Contacts or add an image to one, that change should appear on all devices. What I'm saying is odd is that the HS Mac Contacts application isn't reacting to images in contacts that were already there and downloaded from iCloud, but is reacting if you add an image to a contact on the HS Mac. Then the HS Mac stops syncing to iCloud. Hope I'm making sense! LOL!

I'm unable to have contacts sync to

iphone x ios 1.2.5

from

macbook MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)

mac os high sierra 10.13.2

if i create contact on iphone, it goes to contacts app on macbook...but not other way around...how fix????

I see old comment "

Try deleting com.apple.addressbook in Containers.

User's Library/Containers

Log out/in or Restart"

but WHERE is that ? I can't find it???

I dont see that address book file...

I'm unable to have contacts sync to

iphone x ios 1.2.5

from

macbook MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)

mac os high sierra 10.13.2

if i create contact on iphone, it goes to contacts app on macbook...but not other way around...how fix????

also...if I connect and sync to itunes...it syncs with contacts on macbook...but i'd like it to do it instantly wirelessly like it used to...

thanks, yeah contacts is checked in icloud

i have recent numbers app in iphone, does not show contacts pics who do have a pic in contacts app

i almost never add pics, accept when their email address automatically populates a pic on their contact...

sure that i have not added any pics to a contact since upgrade to high sierra

Just to be clear, when you say "i have recent numbers app in iPhone" - is that another App called "Recent Numbers?" or do you mean you have the "Numbers" app (which is a spreadsheet app like Excel)? or do you mean you just have updated recent phone numbers to your iPhone Contacts App?

I know nothing about deleting Library folders (but people here said in the end it didn't stop the behavior), but to answer your first question on how to find the Library file the first posted solution was talking about:

While in Finder on your top menu bar Choose "Go" and hold down the Option key. This will reveal the Library in the Finder (Mac HD>Users>home folder>Library>Containers)

Personally I think you should first try deleting photos from your various Contacts on your mac and see if that makes it sync to your iPhone & iCloud.

Good luck!

@lilskye -- Just to be clear, when you say "i have recent numbers app in iPhone" - is that another App called "Recent Numbers?" or do you mean you have the "Numbers" app (which is a spreadsheet app like Excel)? or do you mean you just have updated recent phone numbers to your iPhone Contacts App?"

It's an iOS app called "Recent #s" by Kyle Gorlick. In the iOS App Store it is listed as "Recent Contacts" by Kyle Gorlick. There are other similar apps in the store too.

thanks for replying, yeah I have the “recent numbers“ app

I have like 1000 contacts, I rarely have ever added pictures to a contact, but to go through all of them and delete the photos will take a long time, sometimes they have a photo populated when I put email address in, but I have not added any photos to any contact since upgrading to High Sierra

thanks for posting this!

i have:

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)

mac os high sierra 10.13.2

iphone x ios 11.2.5

unchecked contacts...had to manually delete contacts on macbook to make it empty

no "~/Library/Containers" folder

no address files in "~/Library/Application Support"

no address files in "~/Library/Preferences"

no address files in "~/Library/Caches"

(by "~" i'm assuming you mean the name of your computer...mine is "Macintosh HD" ??...so "Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support" right ??)

do i go through folders within the above folders and find address files to delete?

i did...no address files

did the rest of the steps...no luck

i guess I have to find where address files are on my computer for my os

February 2018 and Contacts still won't synch to iCloud from macOS 10.13.3. Trued everything legit and user friendly. The Contact file in icloud.com is stuck in a november update. iPhone and iPad synch with this old file of course since they don't have access to the updated one on my iMac. What's up Apple ?

EXCELLENT!

I am happy that you found a workable solution. Give us an update in a few weeks - I'd like to know how that works out for you.

BTW, I also use two (2...!?!) Windows machines for work: (1) W v.7 and (1) W v. 10. AND, I have a "work" iPhone. I use Outlook (Exchange), G-Mail acct, "Mail", "Calendar", etc. on Windows 10, etc., etc., etc... I can transfer between all and all "devices within group" stay sync'ed up - unbelievable. We live in fantastic times.

Matt

I THOUGHT that this substantially worked for me--with over 4,100 contacts, I went from being off by 15 to off by only one, which I would take as a win--until I just noticed that Mac now has triplicated many contacts and now has 96 EXTRA contacts by virtue of some random triplets. I found no doubles, just triplets. WTFreak?

Wow! Voila! Amazing! That's all I can say. What a simple fix to a complex problem.

I am eager to visit my home Mac, which was also off, and off by a different number of contacts compared with my MBP.

Thank you very much for sharing this solution.

Bravo #mathiswrong22!

I did read the directions! :-) And I spoke with tech support and got that DMG file. I couldn’t find the folder you were talking about. Does it appear in the file that’s generated (the one that gets sent to Apple), or in the system? I couldn’t find it in either place, but maybe you could help me focus in on where to look. I’m a total newbie!

Thanks.

THANK YOU!

I just checked that setting on my iPhone and came to realize the default account for contacts was set to G-mail. Changed it to iCloud and the contacts synced.

And like at least one other person replying in this thread, I could not find any of the files nor folders mentioned in the "solutions." And I knew there were multiple Library folders.

I have the latest version of High Sierra (10.13.6) but am unable to find a single file with a reference to "addressbook" or to a folder called Containers as indicated in these responses. Am having same issues. My iphone syncs with icloud but my mac does not (or only for contacts entered on mac and not for contacts entered on iphone. all software up to date.