macOS Monterey For Dummies

Chapter 16

Dealing with People

IN THIS CHAPTER

Collecting your contacts

Managing your contacts

Syncing your contacts with other devices

Making audio and video calls with FaceTime

In this chapter and the next, you discover a quartet of programs that work beautifully together and make managing your contacts, email, and messages (chats) a breeze. You’re about to find out how these eponymous programs — Contacts and FaceTime in this chapter, and Mail and Messages in Chapter 17 — work, and how to use them individually and as a team.

I cover a lot of material in not a lot of space in these two chapters, so if you want to find out something about Contacts, FaceTime, Mail, or Messages that I don’t cover, remember the capable assistance you can find in Help  ⇒    Contacts Help (or FaceTime Help, Mail Help, or Messages Help).

Collecting Your Contacts

Contacts stores and manages information about your family, friends, companies, and any other entity you want to keep in touch with. It works ...