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Take Control of Apple Contacts
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Take Control of Apple Contacts

by Joe Kissell
April 2026
Beginner to intermediate
76 pages
1h 36m
English
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Set Up Contact Accounts

The Contacts app handles more than just information stored on an individual device or synced via your iCloud account. You can connect within Contacts to accounts stored on Microsoft Exchange servers; at Google, Yahoo!, or AOL; and on any CardDAV or LDAP server. (See What Are CardDAV and LDAP?, just ahead.) Once connected, Contacts can display, search against, and let you edit the contact information associated with that account, and the contact information is synced to your other devices.

It’s likely that you already set up Contacts to connect to one or more of these accounts, perhaps without even realizing it! For example, simply signing in to your iCloud account and accepting default settings automatically connects ...

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ISBN: 9781990783890