Problems adding a new contact since upgrading to high Sierra?

Me too - this is what annoys me about having to upgrade. Every time I do, I get nagged about "signing in from a new device" amongst many other irritations. Now I can't add contacts into my address book.

Updated last night to 10.13.1 (17B48), and the problem is still there.

Maybe it's my imagination, but back in the days before Steve Jobs passed away, Apple software was not so buggy.

Maybe it was because he was such a perfectionist. Apparently he would go rather nuts if things were not absolutely perfect. Anyway, it would be nice if they could fix this bug. Getting to be annoying.

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When a new contact is created in the address book , by clicking on plus sign and in the field is typed say "some " .

Then in the last field something is added say as " name ".

You mean to say the location is shifting in fraction of seconds ( from first line to second ) . you can compare third screen shot and first two screen shots " some name " is shifted in the side bar , to save the data have to click on done , apple engineers must know the answers why it is shifting .

I am having a problem that is a bit different. I create a new contact and start typing in the data and all of a sudden it shuts down and the whole contact disappears. Sometimes it is added and shows up a few minutes later listed in my contacts and other times it's just gone. Does anyone have any suggestions or are having the same problem?

Donno, it's working on mine - actually way too good that it's ever.

Apple has always very much been a LOSER in the Contacts app - they have been behind the curve ball a LONG TIME in actually having a decent Contacts Manager as it should be.

Then but Teeny boppers don't care about elegance of simple common programs that actually JUST WORK and do so very very well.

This last few updates broke a lot of things and I have been able to get a secret root through terminal and ALSO delete user data as a user with a command I should not be able to get privilege to...a bull turned around in the China Shop my Dear!

Yep, happening here also. Ridiculous. Prospective buyers be WARNED, macOS has a lot of cool features, but also being the owner of a Windows machine I can tell you the trade-off is not worth it. My Windows machine has virtually NO BUGS whilst my mac is RIDDLED WITH ALL SORTS OF PROBLEMS. In 2017 Windows is the superior beast, have no doubt about it.

I kindly suggest / request we keep on topic, reporting details about this particular issue.

It is not helpful for people working on reporting / solving this issue if participants make general sweeping remarks about which hardware brand / OS might be better.

Well, have been using a Windows phone for more than three years. MS could not get that working. Every iteration of Windows Mobile 10 gave new troubles and other failures. It was weird to see how this big a company could make such a mess of things.

Seems like a no brainer to me! I wouldn't consider a reinstall, let alone a clean install, for ANY issue that affects three of my own macs at the same time! Thanks for responding and thanks, particularly, for escalating this issue.

That's FINE

But for me and my personal experience for years now - the iCLOUD messes so many things up.

AND there has ALWAYS been a finger pointing between Apple and Google about it.

I've tried for many solid days to get mine working, and have had 'help' from them as well. Their systems don't play well together. I usually use Ghost or FireFox for my web browser to google when doing updates because I have less problems with them.

There was one service and they charged money - too much for me - I got to try their software as a demo for like 10 days - it worked flawless... I'll try to look through time machine for it but I seriously think I deleted it too long ago.

Just wipe your ios on all your devices, reinstall, take a several hours of your valuable time, sacrifice a goat and solve nothing.....yes "mind-boggling". While you are at it, can you solve the ios 11 bug for sharing photos, screenshots and other items where the iPhone now just freezes or acts as though you never hit the share....two goats perhaps?

It's not a priority. I think they like selling the sizzle with no meat. Easier that way.

I guarantee they do not really want any BUSINESS marketshare of the pie

because if they did, CONTACTS would be a REFINED Sweet lady instead of the hideous beast of a tramp that she is.

I have the same problem. Not only the create a new contact, BUT also would not display NOTE. (I have long notes for contact individual) It will only display maybe 5-6 lines and I can't read the rest. Apple needs to fix that too.

Excellent comment, NewMac27!

I find it rather surprising that, after more than 2 months, Apple had not suggested this! Perhaps they do not have anyone dedicated to solving Mac Contacts software issues? This one began with High Sierra's public release …

Congrats on your new machine - enjoy, and Happy New Year! Best, Bob.

Doesn't work for me.

I want to add a contact on my Gmail account. Even with "on my mac" as default, adding contact to Gmail brings up the same issue.

I dont trust Apple handling my info... I've been fed up with migrations from @mac to @me, and now @icloud.