In this guide, we’ll help you fix iCloud contacts not syncing or iCloud contacts not showing up on Mac, iPhone and iPad.
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Best Ways to Fix WhatsApp Contacts Not Showing on iPhone
The best ways to fix the WhatsApp Contacts not showing issue on your iPhone. Learn why this error happens and different ways to add contacts.
How To Mute a Specific Contact on iPhone
Use Focus and Do Not Disturb to mute a specific app or contact. Learn to silence groups of apps and contacts using Focus.
How to Delete Multiple Contacts on iPhone
Your list of contacts may contain more people than you would like. Worry not, as there’s a way to delete multiple contacts on your iPhone.
Thursdays with Bob: Resolutions and Reader Mail – TMO Daily Observations 2022-01-06
Bob LeVitus joins host Kelly Guimont to share some feedback from the “Dear Dr Mac Mailbag” and offer some resolution inspiration.
iOS Quick Tip: Assign Contacts Nicknames With Siri
Here’s a quick tip from Mac Geek Gab 888 on how to use Siri to assign your contacts’ nicknames and relationships.
How to Share Contacts Quickly On Your iPhone
This mini-episode from Mac Geek Gab 877 explains a great tip about how to easily share contacts on your iPhone.
You Can Search and be Directed to Contact's Address in Apple Maps
You can search for the address of someone in your Contacts directly in Apple Maps, using the name you’ve saved them under.
M1 Mac Troubleshooting, Quick Tips, and More — Mac Geek Gab 864
M1 Macs have only been available for a few months, but y’all are buying them up like crazy. Of course, troubleshooting them is a bit different than familiar Intel models, and Dave and John talk through some of that while answering your questions. Quick Tips help to make this episode accessible for all, in addition to some non-platform-specific questions about troubleshooting in general. Listen in as your two favorite geeks help share the knowledge, and perhaps you’ll learn five new things, too!
Share Contacts on iPhone With ‘EZ Contact Share’
EZ Contact Share is a small app that launches within iMessage. It lets you quickly share your contacts in a message without having to open the Contacts app. The recipient of the contact doesn’t need to download EZ Contact Share. They just have to tap on the message to import it. App Store: US$0.99
How to Delete Contacts on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Ever wondered how to delete contacts on iPhone, iPad, and Mac? As Andrew explains, it may be faster to do this on a Mac.
New Exploit Shows We Should Just Skip to iOS 13.1
A contacts exploit was discovered in iOS 13 that lets a person bypass Face ID / Touch ID to see an iPhone’s contacts.
Relatively little is at stake with this exploit. Beyond the inherent danger of an assailant having your iPhone, this method only allows someone to view the contacts within the target iPhone, provided that they have physical access to the target phone and can complete the VoiceOver exploit.
Little is at stake, but there have been so my iOS exploits in the news lately that we might as well go straight to iOS 13.1.
Def Con 2019 and Hacking iOS Contacts
Another Apple hack shown off over the weekend at Def Con 2019 involves iOS Contacts and a SQLite vulnerability. But it’s not something we need to worry about. Emphasis mine:
Documented In a 4,000-word report seen by AppleInsider, the company’s hack involved replacing one part of Apple’s Contacts app and it also relied on a known bug that has hasn’t been fixed four years after it was discovered…
They replaced a specific component of the Contacts app and found that while apps and any executable code has to have gone through Apple’s startup checks, an SQLite database is not executable.
Basically, it sounds like the bug is only available if you specifically remove a key component of Contacts.
iOS 13 Locks Down Private Notes in Contacts
iOS 13 locks down private notes in Contacts, preventing apps from accessing this content like they could in the past.
Vignette App Lets You Update Your Contact Photos Privately
Vignette app allows you to change all those ugly grey circles with initials into actual photographs. By searching Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Gravatar—no login required—Vignette will attempt to pair your contacts with their profile pictures on social media. After amassing all these images, using Vignette’s easy to use interface, you can select which avatar you’d like to use, or none at all. Once you’re all set, Vignette will write those updates to your contacts database on your phone. That means in Messages, Phone, and all of your other apps, you see beautiful images instead of ugly initials. Vignette is free to try, but in order to save the updates to your contact list, you will need to buy the one-time in-app purchase. Vignette app runs entirely on your phone; your contacts stay on your device and are never transmitted *anywhere*. Privacy is a critical factor to Vignette; your trust is important and will not be squandered. App Store: Free (Offers In-App Purchases)
iOS: How to Control Which Apps Can Access Your Contacts (You Should)
Sometimes an iOS app wants access to your Contacts — for good but sometimes also bad reasons. Here’s how control which apps can read your iOS Contacts. And revoke permission if necessary.
Mac Contacts App Cardhop Arrives on iOS
Cardhop is a popular contacts app for the Mac. It’s made by Felxibits Inc. makers of another popular app Fantastical 2. Cardhop has finally arrived on iOS. The app’s parsing engine is incredibly intuitive, letting you search, add, edit, and interact with your contacts using a simple sentence. Just type in “John G” and John’s card will instantly appear. Or enter “Sarah Smith [email protected]” and Cardhop will add a new contact to Sarah’s card. Or type in “call Michael S” and Cardhop will instantly start a phone call. Cardhop automatically loads your contacts in Apple’s Contacts app, so you don’t need to do much except tap the Allow button. Plus, the company says that your contact information stays on your iPhone and isn’t uploaded to their servers. Right now the app is available for 20% for a limited time as part of the launch sale. App Store: US$3.99
Cardhop for Mac gets Instagram Label Support, More
Cardhop from Flexibits is already a pretty handy tool for viewing and managing contacts on your Mac, and its latest update adds Instagram to the list of social networks you can include in contact entries.
iOS: Stop Third-Party Apps From Accessing iOS Contacts
This will stop new apps you install from accessing iOS contacts, and lock the current app settings.
PSA: Apple is Removing Facebook Contact Sync From macOS
If syncing is now removed, then I wonder if Apple will end up removing Facebook from Internet Accounts.
macOS: Turning Off Calendar and Contacts Suggestions
Today’s Quick Tip is all about those grey suggestions in Calendar and Contacts that may be coming from other apps around your Mac. If you’ve made a flight reservation and see that event show up automatically on your calendar, that may be handy! But if you’d rather someone’s business phone number not get added to her contact card, for example, you may find the feature less helpful. We’ll tell you how to stop this from happening in either program!
iOS: Readjust Contact Photos by Using the Photos App
I’ve had this happen several times when I zoom in on a person’s face in a photo, and later it displays a different area of the image.
Flexibits Intros Cardhop Interactive Contacts Manager for the Mac
Flexibits is hoping to do for contacts what it did for calendars on the Mac with its new Cardhop app.
iOS 11 Contacts App Icon gets a Little Gender Flexibility
iOS 11 Developer Beta 4, and now Public Beta 3, changed the Contacts icon from a notebook with the silhouette of a man to a man and a woman. That’s a subtle detail, but one that people are noticing. The tech world has a strong cis male bias—so much so that women, transgender, and anyone that doesn’t embrace the good-old-boys-club attitude are often ridiculed and harassed—that needs some serious shaking up, so sometimes those little things can be a big deal.