Unable to set up Groups in Contacts

When you create a group say ABC in address book under web mail account ( like google ) .

Some conditions are to be met the user must have signed with Apple ID in system preferences in iCloud section and Apple ID is kept same as web mail id ( could be gmail or any ) , the boxes in internet accounts are checked ie .both for iCloud and web mail account ( like notes , contacts , mails etc ) , only back to my Mac is unchecked .

If a group is created like ABC , the contacts details must be filled up ( the persons correct mail address , phone no , street address etc ) .

In the screen shot , when mail preferences is opened in composing if you uncheck the box of when sending to a group show all members address .

And you right click on the group ( ABC ) and click on send mail to ABC a compose window opens and in the two field ABC is shown .

If you want that mail address of the person to be shown in the process , just check the box of when sending to a group , show all member address .You can click on drop down arrow in the To field for verification .

Here it is in pictures:

1) Type ABC - just "ABC" shows

2) Press ENTER - see how the display changes:

3) Press the little down arrow, and choose Expand Group from the menu - if you want. The mail will still be sent correctly if you don't.

Thanks ! Luis great it worked .

But , if you right click on ABC in address book , click on send email to ABC in that scenario mail compose window opens and only ABC is written in To field .

Simple got the answer from you 🙂 I have to enter it manually and click on enter key .

It also works if you do it from Contacts:

but, for some reason, in that case you have to click the Address area (because the focus is in the Subject area), and then press Enter after the address in Mail, *TWICE*!

If you don't want to type manually the mail addresses each time and send a mail to groups , you can create a new smart mail group .

Click on file on top menu bar > again click on new smart mail group .You can use drop down arrows and

Select the criteria as card is member of ABC .And click on ok .

You can edit it and rename the smart group also , Note : you can't send mail to smart group .

There is no issue. You can click Send and the message will be correctly delivered.

If you want to turn ABC into the actual list of addresses click the little down pointing arrow and choose Expand Group.

There is an issue the op wrote - the 4 th point as : But no email addresses are there, just the name ABC.

there is no drop down arrow when mail is composed in TO field there is no drop down arrow in ABC so cannot see expand ( used a gmail account ) .

Please post a screen shot of address book , hide personal info .

What mail services do you use , generally it works as previously posted

Apple ID address = gmail address ( both are kept as same )

And in iCloud account the Mac user must be signed in with Apple ID .

And a query some , apps , softwares , cleaners , anti virus could be installed in Mac .

Use https://etrecheck.com/

And post the results , either you have not configured the address book both in iCloud server and web mail server properly or this is a system wide issue and some apps , cleaners had corrupted the address book application .

Did you actually read my reples? I showed how to make the addresses appear.

And you do NOT NEED to show addresses at all. You can just type the group name and se nd the message. It works. But you CAN expand group just follow the detailed instructions.

Wow ! 🙂

Really thankful .