Apple Contacts – How to Add Tags or Groups

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I have people in my address book, but I want to organize them by topic.

Like Work or Office or Friends or well, you get it.

How can I do that on the desktop? I'm assuming its using the group feature, but I can't figure out how to add someone to a group.

How can I do that on my iPhone? Is that even possible?

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iOS

This is not presently possible on iOS, but you can do this via the use of third party apps such as Groups.

macOS

This is possible on macOS. You don't specify what version of macOS you're using, but below is the basic process:

Open the Contacts app
Click the Add button
Select the New Group option
Give your new group a name
Click on All Contacts
Select the contacts you want to add to the new group
Now drag these contacts to the new group

NOTES:

You can also create a group by first selecting the contacts you want to be a part of the group (you do this by keeping the command key down and clicking on the contacts you want) and then going to File > New Group From Selection.
To see any groups that a contact is part of, you can click on the contact and then press the option key.
You can actually create an advanced group (known as Smart Groups) that will automatically add or remove contacts based on rules you create.

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Your question is really confusing but let me try to answer it the best I can.

Let me start by mentioning that this is why I hate Facebook contact syncing. People (like myself) don't use their real info and when you sync data you end up with a mess in your address book. I personally would suggest that you don't do it that way. My contacts that I set up manually are waaaay more accurate than merging info from Facebook into my address book. It takes more work, but it's worth it.

To tag someone in Facebook you have to connect it to their Facebook account and use their Facebook name. You can tag photos with your own name but it won't link up to the person's FB account.

Also are you using the newest version of iPhoto? And are these photos that you are tagging being uploaded and shared from the iPhoto app itself? You can tag people in iPhoto and then upload the photo album from iPhoto and it will bring over all of the data for the people you tagged to FB. But like I said, you have to tag them using their FB name and not their real name for it to be able to link to their FB account.

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Perhaps an AppleScript like this one can help. Note that I'm not really proficient in AppleScript, so I'm sure this can be improved, but no one has answered so far.

  tell application "Mail"
    set theSelection to selection
    set theMessage to item 1 of theSelection
    set theSubject to subject of theMessage
    tell application "Address Book"
        set theGroup to make new group with properties {name:theSubject}
    end tell
    set theRecipients to to recipients of item 1 of theMessage
    repeat with a from 1 to count theRecipients
        set theRecipient to item a of theRecipients
        tell application "Address Book"
            set theName to name of theRecipient
            tell application "Mail" to set theAddress to address of theRecipient
            set thePerson to make new person with properties {first name:name of theRecipient}
            make new email at end of emails of thePerson with properties {value:theAddress}
            add thePerson to theGroup
        end tell
    end repeat
    set theRecipients to cc recipients of item 1 of theMessage
    repeat with a from 1 to count theRecipients
        set theRecipient to item a of theRecipients
        tell application "Address Book"
            set theName to name of theRecipient
            tell application "Mail" to set theAddress to address of theRecipient
            set thePerson to make new person with properties {first name:name of theRecipient}
            make new email at end of emails of thePerson with properties {value:theAddress}
            add thePerson to theGroup
        end tell
    end repeat
    tell application "Address Book" to save
  end tell

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