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Siri knows all my contacts but contacts app doesnt?
I have contacts on my phone that I can ask Siri to call, and it works fine.
I can say "call John Smith" or "show John Smith" and that contact shows up.
On the other hand, if I go to the Contacts app ...
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How to add word to iOS text correction dictionary? Learn Spelling / Hide Red Squiggly Line
I will often type a brand name or other word that the iOS text correction dictionary thinks is a typo or misspelled.
This adds a red squiggly line under the offending word. Screenshot from Apple iOS ...
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AppleSpell error: Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
My macOS High Sierra system is increasingly slowing to a crawl and having huge spikes in CPU usage, notably in Messages, but even when it not running.
The logs that seem to be most closely associated ...
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Does iMessage have BCC?
Does iMessage have the ability to send a message as a BCC (blind carbon copy) to a group, like email services do (Gmail and Apple Mail)?
Sometimes I have a message that I want many people to receive ...
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Unify iMessage threads for the same contact
In Messages.app, if a user sends you an iMessage from their phone number, it'll start a thread that's tied to their phone number, and not their identity as a contact. Subsequently, if you start an ...
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Allowing apps to access specified contacts
iOS has a feature of allowing only photos you select to be accessible from an app instead of allowing all photos.
Is there a similar feature where I can specify which contacts should be available to ...
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Apps' contacts access - one Group only, not ALL contacts. PRIVACY!
Apps (like WhatsApp) that require access to some Contacts, have no business knowing and analyzing ALL my contacts.
How do I restrict Apps' access to one group of contacts, (the group of contacts that ...
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How to copy phone number from Mac Contacts app without extra symbols?
Often I need to copy a phone number form Contacts app on mac and paste it in some web form etc.
This is what gets copied: +1 (111) 111-11-11
Perfectly I'd like it to be just numbers without spaces, ...
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Synchronize only selected Google contacts on iphone
Following these instructions, I was able to synchronize all my Google contacts to iOS.
However, this bundled together all my Google contacts: people without phone numbers, people I haven't ...
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How to remove Zombie birthdays from Contacts/Calendar?
I run Contact Sync for Mac to keep my Mac contacts in sync with my Google Contacts.
Occasionally this will delete contacts on the mac, that have been deleted as duplicates in Gmail. After Contact ...
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Does the latest version of iOS automatically sync the Exchange Global Address List?
An executive at my company has the iPhone 6 with iOS 8.4. For a month or two now he's noticed that any changes he makes to employee contacts eventually get reverted, and it's driving him (and, ...
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Is it possible to sync iCloud contacts with Thunderbird's address book?
I would like to keep my iCloud addresses in sync with my Thunderbird address book. Is there a way to do this directly?
Currently I sync both with my Gmail contacts, but the results are not very ...
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outlook.com calendar and contacts sync
I recently started using a mac, and my mind was blown by the fact that I can't sync my live.com calendar with the default calendar app (same goes for contacts). I don't understand why this is the case ...
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10.9 Contacts.app doesn’t sync one contacts card with iCloud
Contacts.app in 10.9 says "Some server contacts could not be copied to this address book."
iCloud.com shows 499 contacts
iOS shows 499 contacts
10.9 shows 498 contacts
is there a way to fix this or ...
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How to turn off the spellchecker for a specific document?
I'm in Canada, and I use my mac to write documents in both English and French. Generally, I find that the built-in spellchecker (on 10.7.4) does a great job of automatically detecting which language I'...
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How to completely, utterly, disable spell-check on OS X Yosemite?
With the kind of writing I do, 99 out of 100 spelling "errors" aren't errors at all. Spell correction is simply incredibly unhelpful for me. I hate the distracting red dotted underline that appears in ...
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How to add a custom global spellchecker (Esperanto language) on macOS?
Esperanto is an artificially constructed language which has about 2 millions speakers globally. Understandably, macOS doesn't come with an Esperanto language dictionary / spellchecker preinstalled. I'...
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Contacts does not sync, while Reminders and Calendar do
I have two devices: iPhone (12 mini, iOS 16.7.2) and a MacBook Air (OS 12.6.7). iCloud is the only Contacts repository on my devices. When I create or edit a contact on one device, the change does not ...
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Missing the linking contacts feature in Contacts on Mac
I've noticed that the linking contacts feature doesn't seem to be available on my Mac, even though it's mentioned in the Contacts user guide for macOS Ventura 13. I've tried linking my contacts on my ...
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'Message Send Failure' to one contact from iPhone - have tried everything
I'm trying to send messages to my father's phone number (iPhone) but the 'Not Delivered' error is always being thrown back. Currently, iMessage is disabled but I've tried it enabled but, as suspected, ...
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Prevent Siri and Dictation from sending my contacts to Apple servers
Is there a settings combination on current Apple operating systems (macOS 13 Ventura, iOS 16.1) that prevents Siri and Dictation from sending my contacts to an Apple server?
Apple's web page Siri ...
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How can I import a vCard without getting duplicated fields?
The vCard format has a UID field which should uniquely identify a contact to avoid duplicates. This works: when importing the same vCard twice with multiple contacts inside and a fixed UID for each, ...
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Big Sur does not reliably recognize German
I upgraded from Catalina to Big Sur, and now my Notes documents, which are mixed German/English, are no longer spell-checked correctly. Many (but not all) German words are incorrectly highlighted in ...
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Siri will not give me directions home, or recognise my home address correctly
I used to be able to ask Siri to 'give me directions home', but this has stopped working a couple of years ago. Here are the details:
When I type 'home' into Maps, it picks up the address correctly ...
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How to disable "Spelling and Grammar" globally, for all apps?
I have searched for the similar title, got a few answers which are not applicable to my case:
Is disabling spell check systemwide still possible in Sierra? (redirects to the next link)
Is it possible ...
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iPhone failing to upload contacts to iCloud
For some reason, contacts are just not syncing between my iPhone and Mac. When I add new contacts on my phone, they don't appear on iCloud. If they do, I might start troubleshooting the Mac.
I made ...
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iOS 13 message contacts with multiple phone numbers on separate threads
My brother in law has apparently been sort of doing a hack with iOS contacts for years with his business. He tutors high school kids, so he would create one contact called, "John and Billy Smith", and ...
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Contacts and text messages merging after 13.1 iPhone update
My boyfriend has an android for his personal use and an iPhone for work. I updated my iPhone to 13.1 and now both of his phones are combined in my text messages. I hate it! How do I fix this problem?
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iPhone 6 and iCloud contacts reverted back to an old list
I recently noticed my contacts seem to have reverted back to what they were several years ago. I've lost contacts I added within the last year or so and old contacts I deleted years ago have made a ...
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Where does Apple Mail find its suggested contacts?
I use Apple Mail.app daily, and I've noticed that sometimes it auto-completes email addresses that it shouldn't know about.
For example, if I'm on mac "one", Mail.app knows about email addresses that ...
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iOS mixes up calls from different contacts with shared phone number
On my iPhone (iOS 12.1.4), I have several contacts who share the same workplace landline number (though each of them have their own extension numbers). After I call the workplace landline number of ...
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Exchange contact hidden in Address Book
I just added my Office 365 account via Exchange on my new MacBook Pro. After adding the account. I went into the Address Book app and saw that the global address list is empty. If I search for a ...
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Contact mobile number not shown in Messages
When I type a Contact’s name in Messages in iPhone, the mobile number isn't listed but email address is. I have to tap the + button and find it in my Contact list.
What is causing this issue? How do ...
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How do I get iMessage to only send to mobile numbers and not everything on the contact card?
I have read answers to similar questions and it does not answer it completely. I do not get prompted to answer where I want to send the message. It just automatically sends to phone, email, and ...
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Why does "System Information" want access to Contacts to auto-empty trash?
macOS High Sierra – 10.13.3 (17D102)
I clicked Apple / About This Mac / Storage / Manage, and System Information app launches with a series of suggestions to reduce disk usage.
One suggestion is to ...
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How to find which of several numbers for the same contact I sent a message to
For a contact with several phone numbers, how do I find which number I sent a message to?
I am trying to find which of the contact's numbers to try next, because I'm not getting a reply.
The ...
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Facebook Messenger: Cannot restrict address book access
For security reasons I had to block address book access in iOS 10 entirely. WhatsApp for example doesn't see any address book entries and gives a warning. Any other app too. But the Facebook Messenger ...
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Contacts Disappearing from Groups
I am running Sierra 10.12.3 on a new iMac purchased in Jan 2017. We are running on an exchange network and I'm trying to re-create my groups in Contacts. I create the Group, search for the contact ...
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"X is not available for FaceTime" on Mac
Whenever I try to use FaceTime to contact a certain person, it immediately disconnects with the message "X is not available for FaceTime". We are both using a MacBook running Mavericks, not iOS. The ...
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Contacts no longer open in macOS Sierra
Contacts on macOS Sierra is not opening anymore. I get the following error:
If I try to start Contacts from the terminal, I get the following errors:
$ /Applications/Contacts.app/Contents/MacOS/...
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Default From address in iOS Mail
I have multiple e-mail addresses associated with My Contact on my iPhone (6S, iOS 10.0.2). Some of those e-mail addresses are for accounts on the phone and some are for accounts not on the phone.
If ...
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Why are all my addresses not syncing from iCloud to Mac?
I have a laptop running Sierra and a desktop running Sierra. They both sync with the same account on iCloud.
On my desktop, next to the all iCloud link, there is a lightgrey error indicator:
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Spell-check and autocorrect only working in English
I can't manage to get the in-line spell check or autocorrect to work in any apps. In particular this is frustrating with my e-mail, as this is the biggest part of my job and I frequently need to ...
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Need to merge address book files
Can I import an old Address Book file without replacing my current contacts? In other words, can I merge an old address book file with my current one?
I use address book on OS X 10.10.1 and iOS 8.1.3 ...
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Applescript, OS X : How to Get a list of phone numbers from Contacts, and send an iMessage with Messages App? Halfway there I think..?
I am trying to create an applescript that will grab all of the labeled phone numbers of 'mobile' and 'iPhone' from the every contact in Contacts App (specifically the phone numbers from the iCloud ...
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Contacts does not read properly from LDAP and/or Zimbra
I can't get Contacts to work with an Open LDAP server in OSX 10.9.2, apparently regardless of the settings that I use. I can query it from the command line, so it's definitely working. I have also ...
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Auto-correct in Mavericks for Romanian Dictionary
I installed a Romanian dictionary on Mavericks in two ways:
by using the cocoAspell and,
by copying the OpenOffice dictionary files {aff|dic} in the ~/Library/Spelling/.
The Good: In both the ...
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OS X Messages.app images are out of sync with Contacts
I synchronize my contacts on OS X under Internet Accounts. I have contacts selected under iCloud, Google, Facebook and LinkedIn.
I've updated contact images using this profile aggregation and it ...
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iPhone is missing a hanfdul of contacts
I noticed that one of my contacts (my dad!) suddenly disappeared from my iPhone, in the middle of the day. I don't remember doing anything or deleting it.
I looked online on iCloud.com, and saw that ...
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iPhone 4s and iCloud only partially syncing
I'm having trouble syncing -- my iCloud and iPhone 4s (running iOS 5.1.1) only partially sync with one another. I.e., new entries sync, as do changes to contacts that appear in both. BUT… I have ...
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