Easily Email Groups of People with a Contact List in Mail

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April 23, 2025

We tend to email the same people over and over again. If you find that you're using your email to communicate with the same groups of people repeatedly, you can set up a Contact List in the Apple Mail app. Once you've done this, you'll be able to create a mailing list in Apple Mail and address your email to the list instead of each person.

Why You'll Love This Tip:

  • Quickly address emails to large groups without having to add contacts individually.
  • Never leave someone out when sending out group emails.
  • Save time by avoiding scrolling back through your mail just to find the email thread with all the people attached that you need to be in contact with.

How to Make an Email List

System Requirements

This tip was performed on an M1 MacBook Air running macOS Sequoia 15.3.1. Find out how to update to the latest version of macOS.

If you frequently email separate groups of people, the Contact List can be especially beneficial. You can quickly send mass emails to any group you set up in the Mail app. So how do you send an email to a group? Let's go over how to make a group email list:

Note

Make sure that the contact cards you add to this Contact List include email addresses, or you won't be able to email them.

  1. On your Mac, open the Contacts app. contact group
  2. Click the Plus button. how to create a group email
  3. Click New List. create contact group iphone
  4. Rename the list, then press enter. how to create a contact group on iphone
  5. Click All Contacts. grouping contacts on iphone
  6. Click and drag the person you'd like to add to the list. Do be aware that you need to have the person's email address updated on their contact card. Repeat this step until all your contacts are added. grouping contacts on iphone
  7. Now, to send the email to your list, open Mail. create a contact group iphone
  8. Click Compose New. how to create contact groups on iphone
  9. In the "To:" field, enter the name of your new Contact List. add contact to group text iphone
  10. All the names from your list will appear automatically in the "To:" field, and now you can write your email! add contact to group text iphone

I love this super simple tip because it's such a great way to keep my emails organized when dealing with multiple different email threads between disparate groups. Hopefully, this helps you, too! Next, find out how to make a contact group on the iPhone.

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Rachel Needell

Rachel Needell is a Feature Writer at iPhone Life, and a poet and author. With 10-plus years of experience working with Apple devices, she specializes in all-things iPad and is a Notes App expert, having worked on both the 2023 iPad Guide and the Notes App Guide. You can usually find her writing in the Daily Tip newsletter as one of our senior Tip writers. Rachel received her Master’s degree in English Literature in 2021 and her most recent work appears in the Winter ’21 edition of New Note Poetry. When she’s not obsessing about Apple products, you can find her voraciously reading fantasy books with her cat in Asheville, North Carolina.
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