A deep dive on Mac Contacts?

[mpainesyd (Michael Paine)]

To reduce the number of iCloud contacts you can use a Mac to archive old contacts but still easily access them with Mac Contacts:

Using "On My Mac" to archive old Contacts

I have accrued hundreds of contacts in the Contacts app over many years. I thought I would move many of them to local storage on my Mac to reduce the number stored on my iOS devices. In OSX days the Contacts app automatically had a sidebar folder called On-my-Mac (or similar) but I could find no way to do this with Sonoma. Eventually I found a tip - temporarily turn off the iCould account in Contacts: [contacts_accounts] This creates an On my Mac folder in the sidebar. Now turn the iCloud a…