Comments on: How to Set Up Google Sync for iPhone

By: Victoria

Victoria — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:32:55 +0000

Omg thank yoou i love you haha!

By: Means

Means — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:13:28 +0000

This was very helpful – Thanks for posting!

By: Donald Lawton

Donald Lawton — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:21:06 +0000

Hi Mar,

Thanks for evaluating my app. My app will only copy your contacts and groups when you ask it to do so explicitly. I’ll look into syncing in the background for future versions.

-Don

By: mar

mar — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:41:43 +0000

hi Donald Lawton,

Your App looks really great, one question though: does it automatically sinc your contacts and groups? or does it just do it when you sign in and ask it to?

By: Donald Lawton

Donald Lawton — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:29:13 +0000

Hello all,

I just posted an app to the iPhone App store which may solve your problems. It’s called “Contacts Sync With Groups For Gmail.” It allows you to copy your iPhone contacts to Gmail and vice versa while maintaining any group assignments. For instance, you may have your iPhone contacts organized into groups such as “friends,” “family,” and “coworkers.” With this app, you can copy those contacts to Gmail and they’ll appear in the same groups.

You can read about my app at:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/contacts-sync-with-groups/id454390333?ls=1&mt=8

By: mar

mar — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:28:49 +0000

how about creating a contact on your phone and having it saved in your gmail? hwo do you do that? is there a “Google Sync Calendar” for contacts?

By: Jacky Liang

Jacky Liang — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:53:16 +0000

I’ve connected with Google Sync early in the days. It’s like instant everything to me, never going to miss any emails. or become late in replying them.

By: Don Thomas

Don Thomas — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:41:47 +0000

How do you export the contacts and the calendar from the iphone?

By: Rapscallion

Rapscallion — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:41:17 +0000

@Amybeth – I have had the same issue and here is how I fixed it. Make sure your iPhone is synced to Gmail. Then clean up your Gmail by removing duplicates. There is a handy feature in Gmail to make this really easy. Go to ‘Contacts’ -> ‘More Actions’ -> ‘Find and Remove Duplicates’. You will see all the contacts that have info that conflicts, and Gmail will merge them into one contact for you.

Once Gmail is clean, turn off contact syncing in the iPhone exchange account. You will be prompted to delete all contacts from your iPhone (say yes). Then turn contact syncing back on to force Gmail to resync all contacts back to your phone.

Once this is done, there is no real “Master” for the sync (AFAIK). If you add/modify a contact on your iPhone it is almost immediately synced to Gmail and vice-versa.

Hope this helps you

By: Laurent Rathle

Laurent Rathle — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:28:00 +0000

Thank you for this nice tip, but I can’t use it. I need too much my groups and Google don’t support that it seems.