Contacts Not Syncing Between iPhone and Mac

[MUWarrior10]

Ok, I need some help here because I am going crazy. I cannot get my contacts to sync across my iPhone and newly purchased MacBook Pro. I also somehow managed to mess up the contacts on my phone because the names are not appearing in the text messaging thread when they were definitely there before. I do have two MacBook Pros, the older one is running an old MacOs, and contacts are also not syncing there either. Any advice or assistance would be very much appreciated!!! I do need to keep the contacts syncing with google because of my works reliance on gmail and gsuite. Thanks in advance!!

 

[now i see it]

In my experience, syncing only works reliably when all devices are running current operating systems. That’s for Mac software.
As for google problems- I have no experience using google stuff.

 

[BrianBaughn]

First step: Figure out where your contacts are currently stored. In the macOS Contacts app make sure that Groups is showing on the left (configured with menu item View>Show Groups). Now you should be able to see the accounts that Contacts is syncing. Are they where you want them?

In iOS you can see the Groups in the Contacts app itself. Same question.

Do this and come back here with an answer.

 

[MUWarrior10]

First step: Figure out where your contacts are currently stored. In the macOS Contacts app make sure that Groups is showing on the left (configured with menu item View>Show Groups). Now you should be able to see the accounts that Contacts is syncing. Are they where you want them?

In iOS you can see the Groups in the Contacts app itself. Same question.

Do this and come back here with an answer.

Both are showing all gmail.

 

[BrianBaughn]

So the same Gmail account is on both devices and it's the only account (group) that's on both?

What do your contacts look like (in comparison) at the web portal of Google Calendar?

Also, make sure the default account for Contacts is the same Gmail account on all devices.

 

[Fred Zed]

I had similar issue. It has to do with the push and fetch settings under accounts etc.