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Connect Cherry Studio to Apple Contacts

Yes, Cherry Studio can look people up in your Apple Contacts. Pomeroy connects Cherry Studio to Apple Contacts on your Mac, so it can find a phone number, an email address, or a postal address when you ask. Pomeroy never creates, edits, or deletes a contact.

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What can you ask Cherry Studio to do in Apple Contacts?

  • “What is Priya’s mobile number?”
  • “What’s Sam’s home address?”
  • “Who do I know at Acme?”
  • “Find the number for the dentist.”
  • “What’s my accountant’s email address?”
  • “Do I have a work email for Alex?”

What Cherry Studio can do in Apple Contacts

  • Search by name, organisation, email address, or part of a phone number.
  • Read back the details of the people it finds.

What Pomeroy will not do in Apple Contacts

  • Create a contact.
  • Edit a contact. Never, not even when asked.
  • Delete a contact.

How to connect cherry studio to apple contacts

Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install Cherry Studio first if it is not there yet.

  1. 1

    Download Pomeroy and switch on Apple Contacts.

    Open the download, drag Pomeroy into Applications, and open it. Pomeroy opens a setup window listing every app it can connect. macOS asks whether Pomeroy may access your contacts. The prompt names Pomeroy, and nothing is requested until you flip the toggle.

  2. 2

    Press Set up beside Cherry Studio.

    Pomeroy opens Cherry Studio's install link and Cherry Studio shows the command it is about to add, with Cancel and Install. Nothing is written until you accept.

  3. 3

    Check Cherry Studio.

    In Cherry Studio, Settings › MCP Server lists pomeroy. Switch it on, then ask a new chat what tools it has. You may need to restart Cherry Studio.

  4. 4

    Ask Cherry Studio something.

    Try “What is Priya’s mobile number?” and a real answer comes back.

The configuration, in full

Set up writes it for you. The documentation has the exact text, where it goes, and how to check it worked.

Can Cherry Studio see my Apple Contacts?

Yes. Once you switch Contacts on in Pomeroy, Cherry Studio can search your contacts by name, organisation, email address, or a fragment of a phone number, and read back what it finds.

Can Cherry Studio change my contacts?

No, never. Pomeroy has no action for creating, editing, or deleting a contact, so it cannot happen by accident or on request. Your address book is read, never written.

Is it safe to connect Cherry Studio to Apple Contacts?

Pomeroy looks contacts up on your Mac and sends nothing to a Pomeroy server. What Cherry Studio reads becomes part of your conversation, the same as text you paste in. Contacts starts switched off, and you can switch it off again at any time. Pomeroy is an independent app, not made by Anthropic.

Cherry Studio does not show Pomeroy's tools.

Try restarting Cherry Studio; its documentation does not say whether it reloads on its own. Then press Set up again in Pomeroy, under Settings › Assistants: every way Pomeroy sets an assistant up is safe to run twice. Pomeroy's menu bar shows whether Cherry Studio is connected right now.

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Try Cherry Studio with Apple Contacts.

Get 50 actions every week. No Pomeroy account or payment card required. Requires macOS 15 or later.

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