Problems adding a new contact since upgrading to high Sierra?

I don't see any "Default Account" items in Contacts Preferences. What tab are you looking at?

Also, what are the implications of doing this? I.e., if it's not "On My Mac" then where is it, and is there a reason why some people might prefer it to not be "On My Mac?"

Yes this worked for me too, thanks for posting. I discovered I had some 15 "No Name" contacts at the bottom of the list from attempts to create contacts, so plenty to choose from! And editing an existing contact doesn't seem to be a problem.

It would nice to see a fix for this all the same.

I am having the exact same problem. I struggled with it and it took a lot of searches to find this thread. Apple, get your act together. Computers are running slower than ever and you are making basic things a pain. This isn't good. I already was thinking to move back to windows due to speed & integrations. Now even more.

Thanks for the hint. You can also use Google contacts to add contacts or even from an Android smart phone. My question is about the competence of Apple.Why can't they solve such a basic feature. After the support for outlook sync was dropped at least basic sync with Google should work!!!!

Thank you for posting, and for again escalating this longstanding "High Sierra" mac os failure to Apple.

Question: Does anyone on this "Apple Support Community" know how to elicit a real answer from Apple? I had previously invoked Tim's name, to no avail ...

Best, Bob.

Thank you for your comment and for explaining your particular experience.

What is still very puzzling to me (and also to Apple?) is what was the specific change to High Sierra's code which suddenly caused this (continuing) issue in 2017 for so many mac users. Although I don't write code, I do think about logic at times …

Best, Bob.

Yesterday I took the next step, perhaps it will serve you too.

I have a Gmail-account and I always had it in the Mail-app as one of my 4 mail-accounts. When I checked my mailfolder-list, I saw the mailfolder "Important".. It turned out to be one of the Gmail mailfolders. Huh? Google is deciding for me what is important?? I dragged the content of the Gmail inbox-folder to one of my other Inboxes of my other mailaccounts in the Mail-app. Then I logged into Gmail on the web, opened Settings en Redirect / POP-Imap. There I redirected Gmail to one of my other mail-accounts.

After I did that I went on my Mac to System Preferences > InternetAccounts > Gmail > unchecked mail. That was the last one. I checked if re-directing worked, it did!

Then I deleted the complete Gmail-account on my Mac in System preferences > Internet-accounts. Result: in the Mail-app the list of mail-folders was shorter and the "Important" folder from Google was gone.

Now I am able again to decide for myself what is important to me!😉

Me too since upgrade, so we and all the others in the thread are not alone.. but that doesnt help anyone so do something fast about this Apple! This is not funny at all and Ive already used up all the ugly words I know, cuz its so frustrating and hopeless to get things done quick nowadays!

Apple, we all love your products.. but we pay a lot for them too to get them now and them.. so we should be able to expect a little more from you, right? This, but then some other small irritating things not related to this issue too, so will not mention them here. Do your work please Apple.

No, Apple is not listening, otherwise they would have added a DATE ADDED automatically to the app.

How many times have you entered a new number (from a girl) and when you go look in your thousands of contacts and can't remember her name.... (I should remember, I know).

Thanks, but I don't see that option in my Preferences/Accounts page. I suppose it is because I am using Gmail, and not iCloud. Who knows? I certainly can't get anything out of Apple. You'd think they could come up with some lame suggestion, like Blame Google Not Us.

I hope you solution works for somebody, though.

Seems like Apple does not fully test desktop apps to be seamlessly compatible with their mobile devices/apps. I guess sitting down and concentrating on one task has gone out of fashion. The best we could hope for would be a patch in one of their monthly updates. Second best, would be to contact Apple and they won't admit to the problem but will have some sort of work around - perhaps more kludgy than the one suggested (works, by the way). Third would be to have the problem resolved in yet another silly named OS upgrade; I'm suggesting "San Andreas" . I'm just sayin'

Thank-you!! This most definitely does help! Not even knowing where all the failed contact cards disappeared to, I discovered a whole string of "no names" to delete. (after successfully using one of them to make into the most recent contact I've been attempting to add.)

I appreciate your sharing.

Cannot (yet) verify this. A 2.58 GB upgrade, it contains comprehensive text describing Apple's privacy matters and has also added a notification feature which indicates when one's info is being shared. Good to see! Contacts and numerous other apps are obviously affected.

You would want to think after 18 years MacOS X, it should not be a problem anymore creating a contact and having it uploaded to iCloud without any problem. But no. Here we are. Creating a contact. And still its impossible to use adressbook without any issues. This is nothing but a basic feature.

You may have a rosy expectation of Apple. Their game is to make as much money as possible, and this requires out-competing the competition in public-facing features. IOW, more bells'n'whistles. Having Contacts work transparently is way down their list of priorities. I'm grateful that so much of my Mac works in the many., many ways that it does, and I take the hours of troubleshooting as part of the costs of having these tools ready-to-hand.

pete