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How do I open the context menu from a Mac keyboard?
In Windows, one can hit Shift+F10 to access the "Context Menu." But a similar keyboard action doesn't seem possible on Mac. One potential application...
When I make a spelling error in a document, ...
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How can I change the language for automatic spelling correction?
I set my input source to be US English. And the flag showing on the taskbar is also an American flag.
But whenever I type something in Mail.app or Notes.app the spell check still corrects my spelling ...
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Can I disable auto-correction of a single word on OS X?
I'm running into an annoying issue with OS X's automatic spelling correction where the word nala gets automatically corrected to napa.
I've tried adding nala to my custom dictionary under ~/Library/...
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How do I move a contact on the iPhone from one group to another?
I have about 20 contacts on my iPhone that is in the wrong group. How can I move them to another group?
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How to sync iCloud contacts with Google?
I recently started using the Gmail app on my iOS devices because it has better search functionality than the native Mail app. However, that means that when I'm writing emails the app is using my Gmail ...
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Any way to move contacts between groups on iPhone?
Is there any way to move a contact in Contacts on my iPhone into a group? I can create a new contact in any group, but I don't see a way to move an existing contact between groups.
Seems like an ...
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Easy way to install additional spell-check dictionaries for OS X?
I am looking for an easy way to install spell-check dictionaries for languages that are not supported by default on OS X (one example Romanian).
By easy way, I mean a solution that does not require ...
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Is it better for iOS to sync Gmail contacts using Exchange ActiveSync or the CardDAV protocol?
To date I've been using Google Sync as an Exchange account to synchronize contacts between Gmail and my iPhone. However, Google very recently announced support for syncing Gmail contacts using ...
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How do you get iPhone to share contacts with Mac Messages app?
When I get a new text, it appears both in the Messages app on my iPhone and in the Messages app on my Mac. The iPhone text show the person's name, and the Mac text only shows the person's number. I ...
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Force contacts to sync with iCloud right now
I just updated a contact's phone number in the Mac Contacts app. Now I want to call them on my iPhone (4S), but my iPhone does not have the new number. Both the Mac and the iPhone are configured to ...
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Zero-width characters embedded in phone number whenever they are copied from the macOS address book
Whenever I use Contacts.app to fill out a form on a website, I have a problem with any phone number field.
Contacts.app adds unicode "left-to-right override" (U+202D codepoint: E2 80 AD in UTF-8 ...
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How to have a specific contact make a ring sound even in silent mode
I have an iPhone 4, and I have the switch on the side set to switch silent mode on and off.
I'd like specific contacts (for example, She Who Must Be Obeyed) to ring when they call, even in silent ...
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How can I hide **some** birthdays in iOS Calendar?
I have entered the birthday for several of my Contacts, and these birthdays show up in Calendar. I know that I can enable or disable all birthdays by selecting or deslecting "Birthdays" from Show ...
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Cannot add gmail account on iOS
I am trying to add a gmail account to my iPad in order to have contacts, email, and calendar sync. I go to Settings -> Mail -> Accounts -> Add Account and enter my gmail credentials. It accepts the ...
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How does one export all contacts from iCloud?
How does one export all contacts from iCloud in some sort of standard format? I would prefer to keep a backup in case my sync goes bad and I'm yet to find a way to export all my contacts. I would hate ...
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How to stop iPad/Safari from treating certain numbers as 'phone numbers'?
I've got some pages on an intranet that show numerical rates to 4 decimal places, eg 147.1453. When these pages are viewed on an iPad, some of these rates appear underlined and clicking on them causes ...
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What is the best way to set up Google mail, contacts and calendar? (consolidated)
I'm trying to understand what the best way to set up Google mail, contacts and calendars on my iPhone and iPad. There seems to be plenty of options, all of which have downsides spread over lots of ...
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Can't enable spell checker option in Xcode
Option is greyed out and I cannot enable spell checking in Xcode
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How to flag a contact as being deceased in the Contacts app for iOS/macOS?
Death is a sad fact of life and over the years some of my old contacts have died.
I still wish to keep a record of their details, birthday, day they died, notes, spouse, kids, etc. in my Contacts app ...
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One contact with several numbers - sent messages
I have a contact with multiple (two) mobile numbers.
How do i know to which number the sms (text message) was sent?
The system did not ask me which telephone number to use.
Is there a way to check ...
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New iOS9 Spotlight search not finding contacts
I've just upgraded to iOS 9, and the new Spotlight search isn't finding contacts for me - it sometimes finds contacts, but not the one I'm searching for.
I've turned off every app in Spotlight search,...
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Is it possible to disable spell check systemwide?
I've just done a clean install of Yosemite, and in practically all of my apps I'm noticing those red underlines whenever I've "misspelled" something (or, more accurately, used an unrecognized name, ...
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macOS built-in spell checker performs badly - what can I do?
macOS Mojave cannot detect that I made a mistake at badd and cannot guess that "approximately" was spelled incorrectly.
How can I improve the built-in spell checker? (i.e. I don't want to use a spell ...
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Mojave spell check keeps flagging correct words and tries to change them to grammatically incorrect words
So this has been driving me crazy - it feels like I have a grammar troll living in my computer. MacOS's spell checker keeps flagging words as misspelled that aren't. I notice it mostly in Mail, ...
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iOS 9 iMessage notifications show sender's number, not name
After some annoying wifi problems with iOS 8.3, I tried out iOS 9 public beta 2 (now public beta 3) on my iPhone 5 (Edit: in the UK). When I receive a text message (iMessage/SMS), the lock screen/home ...
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How to access data from a Mac Contacts backup: a .abbu file
After I back-up Mac Contacts to a .abbu file, is there a program that lets me get at the underlying data vs. just importing them? I.e., can I open them as a text file or .CSV. Thank you!
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Transfer contacts from local phone storage to iCloud account
I just noticed that all my new contacts was saved to local phone storage instead of iCloud (I saw Settings – Mail, Contacts, Calendars – Contacts – Default account – “On iPhone”). How to transfer all ...
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In Mail.app, how can I set a recipient's default email address?
When typing a recipient's name in the "To:" field, Mail.app will bring up an autocomplete menu showing all email addresses for that recipient (e.g., Home and Work). If I don't pay attention and just ...
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How do I associate the right Contact Card under Users & Groups to my own profile?
Just got a Mac for the first time...
Under System Preferences > Users & Groups, I have a user profile set as the Admin.
My Full Name and Apple ID are shown correctly. However, when I click on ...
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Does the 'iPhone' label on a Contact's phone number enable any special handling?
When entering a contact's phone number in the Contacts app on iOS or the Address Book on OS X, the number can be labeled iPhone rather than, say, mobile. Does doing so have any effect on how the ...
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How to force a sync update between Gmail contacts and iPhone with iOS 9?
I am successfully synchronizing my iPhone contacts with my GMail account.
When adding a new contact in my GMail account, the new contact takes a few hours to sync to the device. This is cumbersome, ...
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Setting Outlook.com contacts and calendar on OSX
There are similar questions regarding the synchronization of Outlook.com on AskDifferent, mostly related to the native OSX Mail app. However, I'm particularly interested in connecting the Contacts and ...
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How to show actual email address in iOS Mail app?
iOS: 12.2
In the iOS Mail app, if the sender or recipient of an email has more than one email address associated with it, how can I tell which specific email address was used? For example, if I send ...
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How to permanently turn off check spelling while typing in macOS!
How to permanently turn off check spelling while typing in macOS - for each and every app. Whenever I turn off this option in anyone of my default or third party mac apps within a few seconds these ...
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How to disable AddressBookSourceSync in El Capitan
AddressBookSourceSync continually prevents idle sleep. I don't use address book syncing and in previous versions I used just to delete the app. However this is now prevented by System Integrity ...
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iOS7 Contacts Have All Disappeared
I upgraded to iOS 7 yesterday. Today, all my contacts suddenly vanished. They were working in iOS 7 this morning, but have since disappeared.
I'm not syncing contacts with an external system (...
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Assigning different ringtone for non-contacts
I'm using iOS 9.1 and I want to assign one ringtone for all known contacts and a different one for non-contacts.
I also have another ringtone for a few specific contacts, but in general I want to ...
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macOS Sierra - iMessage corrects me despite spellcheck is turned off
Good day!
iMessage on my mac fixes my typos as I type despite the fact that I've disabled spell check in settings.
Here is how it looks:
Is there any way to fix that? Thank you in advance.
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How can I send an email to a google contact group on my iOS devices?
I have groups in my Google Contacts for sending emails to sets of people via the web interface on a browser.
I sync Google mail and contacts onto a couple iOS devices via Microsoft Exchange.
How can ...
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How can I force iPhone to resync contacts from server?
I sync email, contacts and calendar to my company's Exchange server. This morning all of my contacts are gone from my iPhone (iPhone 4, iOS 4.2.1). Facts that further explain:
My contacts were good ...
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OS X Ukrainian spellcheck
I did some research and still have trouble to find any way to enable Ukrainian language spell check in OS X.
Please advise how to make it happen.
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How do I find a recently added contact?
I recently met someone and got them to type their info into my contacts. I was really busy for a few days and didn't get around to contacting them. Now I can't remember their name. Is there a way ...
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Sorting Contacts in Other Languages
I use the iPhone in English, but I save the names of my contacts in Russian. The problem is that they all appear now under (#).
Is there any way to fix that?
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Is it possible to hack the "Correct spelling automatically" setting in OS X to emit a sound when correcting?
There are many times when I curse the autocorrection mechanism for changing what I typed, but overall, much of the corrections are welcome so I don't really want to disable it. I do want to have it do ...
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How can I leave Gmail for Mail?
I've decided I want to take the plunge and leave Gmail for Mail, using my iCloud account. Why? I've lost trust in Google (incl. their search bias, how they handle my privacy, and how they treat the ...
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How can I keep track of twitter usernames in Address Book?
I want to add twitter names to my contacts in Address Book. But I cannot find an obvious place to do so.
The best fit would be as instant messaging username, but twitter is not listed among the ...
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Multilingual spell checking on Whatsapp Desktop is not working
Multilingual spell checking (French and English) is working very well generally on my mac OS install. I set it up correctly following these recommendations.
However, there seems to be something ...
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How to sort contacts by creation date or modification date in iOS Contacts or OS X Contacts 7.x?
Is there a way to view or export the date a contact was created or modified in iOS 7 and/or the Contacts app (version 7.1) when viewed from a Mac?
This one datapoint would enormously aid deduping ...
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Does a Contacts Nickname transmit to anyone else; iMessage or email?
iOS 9.0.2
So I asked Siri to call me Sugar Daddy... Hilarious, right?
Well I was using the e-mail app this morning, and when looking at a few e-mails I sent last night, I noticed that my name was ...
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Sync google apps (gmail) contacts directory with Mac address book
We use Gmail (Google Apps for business) at my work.
I have set up my Mac (OS X 10.7.5) address book to sync the local address book with my gmail account, however this only syncs "My Contacts" but all ...
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