Comments on: How To Sync Google Contacts & Calendar with iPhone

By: davide

davide — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:25:51 +0000

Hi, everybody.
Does anybody know if this Google Sync system works in both directions?
I mean, if once I update/add/delete a contact on the Iphone, this will be “automatically” updated/added/deleted in Google at the first Sync link (same question is applicable to the calendar).
Thanks.

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:20:22 +0000

Great post! I’m keeping in my Evernote soI can get it anywhere and share. Thanks again!

By: Levin

Levin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:12:55 +0000

Hi! Got à similar Problem As Aq! Have Set it all Set up like in the tut but my iphones contacts wont Sync As they should! I have noticed that i have two Groups of contacts on my iPhone: the iPhone contacts and the gmail contacts Group. When i now create à new contact it will Be out automatically into the gmail group. Cant Change that. Only this Group gets synced to my gmail account. The “old” contacts which are in the iPhone Group wont Be synced! But i cant Put them into the gmail Group to Sync them! Solution for that?

By: dave

dave — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:30:02 +0000

i’ve gone through the instructions here and on several usergroups multiple times, and while my multiple google calendars sync beautifully, none of my contacts sync (it is a completely empty list). i haven’t found other people with the problem in usergroups, but i doubt it’s a rtfm problem (i followed the instructions exactly, multiple times, and even erased and reset my iphone to start from scratch. everytime it failed.).

i’m on a macbook pro, osx 10.6, itunes 8.2.1, iphone 3GS 16gb.

thanks in advance.

By: aq

aq — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:08:14 +0000

could you explain the subfolders more? when i sync, i have my contacts duplicated as does my husband….

By: blah

blah — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:32:08 +0000

Hey mm you may want to make some subfolders in your contacts. That’s what I did and it works great.

By: mm

mm — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:08:15 +0000

hey, thanks for the excellent info on synching. one problem i found is that when i synched my contacts all 1000+ people I have ever emailed showed up in my phone!! I went to look at the contacts view in GMail and My Contacts only has 50 contacts – - further down is listed “All Contacts” (just like your screen shot) with the 1000+ contacts. How do I restrict the contacts on my phone to only what I’ve selected in “my contacts”?

By: Sherwin

Sherwin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:02:45 +0000

Hi Simon,

I just read about “Windows users must choose only one contact application to sync with”. I am currently using Windows address book. Guess I have to switch. Thanks!

By: Sherwin

Sherwin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:59:08 +0000

Hi Simon,

I am already using the most updated version of iTunes. I was able to jaulbreak my iPhone until 2.2.

By: Simon Ng

Simon Ng — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:19:55 +0000

@Sherwin, what version of iTunes are you using? You need to use iTunes 7.7 or later for Google Sync Contacts. You may check out Apple support for more details:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1245

By: Sherwin

Sherwin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:19:22 +0000

Hi Simon, I can;t seem to see the “Sync Google Contacts” under the info tab of my iTunes. How come?

By: mikaelf

mikaelf — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:03:14 +0000

I wonder how we can get away from the warning message (about the certificate) in step 10. A few years back I got the same message when I accessed https://gmail.com – instead I needed to go to https://mail.google.com. Might be the same kind of problem!