In the Mac Contacts app (I'm using Sonoma), it's easy to share a contact. But how do you share an entire LIST of contacts? I believe you used to be able to do this by putting contacts in a Group, but in Sonoma that option doesn't appear to be available anymore.
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iMac 24″, macOS 14.7
If you select all cards in the List, you can ctrl-click and Share the entries as a multiple vCard.
Or, you can export them as a vCard and send that.
To create a Group List in Contacts is still available
Perhaps reviewing this Apple Support Doc may help
Refer for Sonoma specifically
Create and change lists in Contacts on Mac
The Sonoma support page (Create and change lists in Contacts on Mac ) you point to doesn't say ANYTHING about Groups.
Also, New Group used to be in the File dropdown menu. It isn't there anymore in Sonoma.
You can easily share individual contacts. I want to share a whole list.
Thank you. I guess that works, though it's a little strange. If you select all the cards in one contact list, and send them as a message or export them as a multiple vCard, it oddly titles the multiple vCard by the name of one random person in the list (e.g "Joe Blow and 13 others"). When I select and try to open the multiple vCard, it doesn't seem to want to let you expand them into individual vCards, but just offers to add them all to the contact list. I suppose that makes sense in that if I wanted individual vCards, I could just pull them out individually, and it does simplify the list import job for the recipient.
I guess I would have thought that if you wanted to share a list of contacts, it would share all the individual vCards in the list, though that might make importing them more challenging.
So yes, that does the trick, but in a slightly unexpected way.
You are absolutely right
The wording was changed from Group to List
OP wrote " by putting contacts in a Group, but in Sonoma that option doesn't appear to be available anymore. "
Sorry I answered part of your original question
I do not Use Lists ( Groups ) in Contacts
If I wanted to share a List - I might use the Share List if that exists
Dannymac22 wrote:
No it wasn't. You said you didn't even know if "Share List" existed. Not being very helpful here.
You are correct.
This is what I said >> " If I wanted to share a List - I might use the Share List if that exists "
The more relevant issue appears to be, the user did not seem to like the answer that was provided
If one does not like an answer, ignore it
OK, but the issue was how to share an entire Group/List. That page doesn't refer to sharing.
Um, OK, does "Share List" exist?
Dannymac22 wrote:
Um, OK, does "Share List" exist?
That question was answered earlier
No it wasn't. You said you didn't even know if "Share List" existed. Not being very helpful here.
I guess I would have thought that if you wanted to share a list of contacts, it would share all the individual vCards in the list, though that might make importing them more challenging.
So yes, that does the trick, but in a slightly unexpected way.
Importing is the default operation for Contacts. If you want to just view them, you can QuickLook the file.
How can I share a group of contacts in macOS Sonoma?
