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This workflow helps you keep your contact book accurate before messaging, emailing, or planning follow-ups.

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What this helps you do

Use Alter to clean and maintain contact data while you work. You can search people quickly, add missing details, and keep groups organized without opening Contacts for every edit.

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Works with

  • App: Apple Contacts
  • Tool type: Local tool
  • Permissions: Contacts

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What Alter can do today

Alter can find contacts by name/email/phone, list contacts by group, create new contacts, update existing records, and delete contacts with explicit confirmation.

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What Alter cannot do yet

Update and delete actions are ID-based behind the scenes, so the best user flow is usually lookup first, then edit/delete.

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A realistic workflow

1

Find the person first

Ask Alter to find the contact by name.
2

Apply updates

Add missing phone/email/company details or assign group info.
3

Use contact in next action

Reuse that contact for Mail, Messages, or planning workflows.

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Copy/paste prompts

  • “Find contact Sarah Martin.”
  • “List 20 contacts in the Work group.”
  • “Create contact: first name Alex, last name Chen, work email [email protected], mobile +33612345678.”
  • “Update contact [contact id] and add work email [email protected].”
  • “Delete contact [contact id] and confirm yes.”

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How to enable

1

Enable Contacts in Tools Manager

Open Alter -> click the three dots -> Tools Manager -> Local Tools -> enable Contacts.
2

Allow Contacts permission

On first use, macOS asks for Contacts access. Allow access for Alter.
3

Run a quick test

Ask: “Find contact John.” If results appear, setup is complete.

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What to expect

  • Many actions work best after a lookup step because updates/deletes use contact IDs.
  • Deletion is protected by explicit confirmation (confirm yes).