Macs All-in-One For Dummies, 6th Edition

Chapter 1

Managing Contacts

IN THIS CHAPTER

Setting up Contacts

Editing, searching, deleting contacts

Grouping contacts into lists

Sharing contacts

Your Mac comes with a contact management app called (surprise!) Contacts. You use Contacts to store names of people and businesses along with all sorts of information about them: phone numbers; street addresses; virtual addresses, such as those used for email, instant messaging, or websites; social network usernames; and more intimate information, such as birthdays, anniversaries, and relations. Besides storing contact names and related contact information, Contacts can display contact information from more than one source, and it syncs via iCloud with your iOS and iPadOS devices — meaning that if you make a change to contact information on one device or computer, it’s automatically updated on all your devices. Contacts also connects with other apps on your Mac so you can open someone’s contact card and immediately

• Write and send an email or message to that person.
• Open a FaceTime conversation with that person.
• Display that person’s ...