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How To Sync iPhone, iPod Touch Email Calendar and Contacts with Google

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MrGroove,

I just bought a new iPhone but I can’t figure out how-to synchronize my email, calendar, and contact list with my computer.  Can you help please?

MrGroove gets this question at least 2 or 3 times a week, so he asked me to do a quick write-up with the details on How-To Sync your iPhone or iPod Touch Email, Calendar, and Contacts.

What is Microsoft ActiveSync?

Microsoft ActiveSync is a feature built into Microsoft’s flagship email product Microsoft Exchange.  It allows mobile devices to sync Email, Calendar, and Contacts over the Internet to a corporate inbox.

Google Sync – Microsoft ActiveSync

Google licensed ActiveSync from Microsoft so any ActiveSync capable device (iPhone, Android, and Windows Mobile) can now take advantage of ActiveSync to Sync their Mobile phone to the Google/GMAIL Suite of applications (Email, Calendar, Contacts.)  Being that an iPhone and iPod Touch have either WiFi or 3G, this will allow you to SYNC your device to Google wherever you are in real-time!

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch Active Sync with Google Sync

One answer for you home users is to SYNC your Apple device with your GMAIL Calendar and Address Book/Contacts via the new Service.

Features

Synchronize your contacts. Get your Google contacts quickly and easily to your phone. With Sync, you can have access to your address book at anytime and place that you need it.

Get calendar alerts. Using your phone’s native calendar, you can now access your Google calendar, and be alerted for upcoming appointments with sound or vibration.

Always in sync. Your contacts stay synchronized whether you access them from your phone or from your computer. Add or edit contact information right on your device or on your Google account on the web.

 

Before we get into the How-To.  Please note the following:

  • FIXED!  Google Sync via ActiveSync will now sync your Email, Calendar, and Contacts as long as your running the latest iPhone and iPod Code!  Google Sync via ActiveSync will not Sync your GMAIL Email. Google Sync only Synchronizes your Google Calendar and Contact List/Address Book.  At this time, keep your Gmail Inbox in Sync via iMap.
  • Fixed again!  The latest iPhone’s OS will now support multiple ActiveSync accounts!  For those of you who are already syncing your iPhone with your Corporate Email Server via ActiveSync, you’re outta luck.  The iPhone and iPod Touch only allow you to set up 1 ActiveSync connection.  You will need to choose between your Corporate Email or Google Services, or do like me and just use GMAIL via iMAP on the iPhone.

 

1. First, confirm your iPhone or iPod Touch has the latest firmware; 2.2 or higher is required.  You can find your Firmware settings under Settings > General > About > Version on your device.  If you find you need to update your firmware, you can do so easily with iTunes.

2a. Tap the Settings application icon

iPhone Settings Menu

2b. Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars

Apple iPhone open Mail, Contacts and Calendars

3. Tap Add Account

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch Add Mail Account

4. Tap Microsoft Exchange

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch Add Mail Exchange Server ActiveSync

5. Enter the required information into the fields on this next page

  • Email – Be sure to Enter your Full Email Address (ignore the screenshot below; I need to update it.)
  • Server – You must enter m.google.com however you will only get this option AFTER you enter your username.
  • Domain – Leave that blank. This setting is for corporations ONLY (who have their own Exchange Server.)
  • Username – Must match your Google account information.  Although the Google Instructions show a screenshot of “User@googlemail.com” – for 99.999% of us, this will not work since we all use “user@gmail.com.”  So, just use your GMAIL account info.
  • Password – Yeah, that’s your GMAIL Password.
  • Description – This can be anything;  I usually use my email address.
  • SSL – On.

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch ActiveSync Configuration for Google Sync

6. Tap Off or On anything you want to Sync with your GMAIL Account. Click Done.

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch Disable Mail Sync with ActiveSync Exchange

All done!

Now that you have synced your device, any changes made to the iPhone/iPod Email, Calendar, and Contacts Address Book will automatically update your Google Calendar and Contacts Address Book and vice versa (when the Internet is available to the device of course.)  VERY GROOVY INDEED!!!

78 Comments

78 Comments

  1. maximafan23

    March 16, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    Thanks for the help, I couldn’t get it to work. I was following the instructions on google but you’re right they did mess up, email@googlemail.com doesn’t work; you have to use gMail. Funny, but then again google is known for having horrible typos.

    • MrGroove

      March 16, 2009 at 12:27 pm

      @maximafan23 – I’m glad the article helped your out!

      • Danny

        August 19, 2010 at 10:24 am

        Thanks a ton for the help! Best explanation out there.

        • Jennifer

          November 29, 2011 at 6:42 pm

          Hi Danny, Thank you for the post. I have the ipod touch gen 4and I was able to sync my gmail without any issue for quite some time.

          I synced my exchange email without any issues today for the first time. Mail was flowing from both entities no issues. When I left my work wi-fi and got home the ipod touch connected to my home wi-fi the exchanged mail stopped coming. I have my blackberry synced and it was receiving mail from the exchange with no issues.

          So I read the article and saw the note regarding the fact I can’t have two active syncs at once. So, I deleted the gmail and powered the ipod touch 4 gen down. I brought it back up and it is stuck at checking for mail.

          Any thoughts Danny?

          Thanks, Jen

        • Marc-Andre Chiasson

          February 23, 2012 at 11:27 am

          My technical abilities are nil. I have an iPod Touch, a Bb Playbook and a Toshiba laptop with Windows 7. I have a Hotmail account. I like the native email, address book and calendar on the iPod and use these for any new contacts and appointments. My emails sync OK across the three platforms but can’t get the address book and calendar to do the same. So, since I’m scared to lose the iPod with all my info, I end up inputting the info twice…once via the iPod and once via the laptop which syncs automatically with the Playbook. Anyway I can sync all these together when I insert in iPod? I have a Gmail account but don’t use. Any help you can provide this old cart would be appreciated.

          MAC

  2. Steve

    April 20, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    Will this approach keep 2 ipod touches in sync? My wife and I would like to share a single calendar. So we are thinking of using a google calendar and buying 2 ipod touches but aren’t sure if it will work.

    • MrGroove

      April 20, 2009 at 7:17 pm

      @Steve – Yes. There is no limit as long as you have the Credentials (Username and Password) for the Google Account. ENJOY!

  3. Diana

    June 6, 2009 at 3:45 pm

    I tried to follow the steps. but I don’t have the option of “server” to enter m.google.com. why?

    • MrGroove

      June 6, 2009 at 10:53 pm

      @Diana – Hi Diana. YES, that’s a KNOWN issue. Please read STEP 5 bullet “2” above. You must FIRST enter in your username BEFORE the Server box will show up…. Sorry if I didn’t make that very clear above.

  4. freeipodtouch

    June 7, 2009 at 3:43 am

    Great blog found this via twitter im just adding to my blog now.

  5. justin

    June 14, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    I have followed all the steps and it keeps throwing up a box that says Password Incorrect. I have gone into gmail and made a new password and that still is not working any ideas? Thanks for your help.

    • justin

      June 14, 2009 at 2:20 pm

      @justin,

      I finally cracked ithe “password incorrect” problem

      On the wifi settings on the Iphone and on the Ipod touch, there is a Proxy setting, which had defaulted to HTTP. I changed it to “AUTO” and it solved the probelem.

      • MrGroove

        June 19, 2009 at 3:32 pm

        @justin – great find Justin. Thanks for the FYI! I’ll need to update the article to call that out. Thanks again *and welcome to the groovyPost community* !

        • kwok

          October 28, 2009 at 4:58 am

          @MrGroove,
          hi i cant find the proxy setting where is it?
          i hv the same problem too!

        • Pauline

          October 6, 2011 at 11:04 pm

          trying to sync gmail to I-Pod which won’t accept password.
          Where is the proxy which is mentioned in one of the chats please?

      • jenny

        October 29, 2009 at 3:19 pm

        @justin,
        Thank you – the problem appears to be fixed now (and I didn’t even have to enlist the help of my techno savvy partner!)

        • MrGroove

          October 29, 2009 at 4:00 pm

          @jenny & @justin – Where is this setting exactly? Can you be more specific? @kwok appears to need help finding it…

          • rose

            December 25, 2011 at 7:27 pm

            please help unable to sync contacts . follow all steps but keeps on giving the incorrect password…HELP

  6. anna

    June 16, 2009 at 5:25 am

    Hi, any idea of how to syncronize more than one google calendars? I only get to see the “Personal” one.
    Thanks!
    Anna

    • MrGroove

      June 19, 2009 at 3:31 pm

      @anna, Yikes…. Last I played with this I seem to remember it’s only possible to SYNC a single Google Calendar with your iPhone and that is the one which is tied to the Google Credentials you enter. You can however SYNC multiple mailboxes however using IMAP to add multiple mailboxes to the iPhone. Sorry Anna…

  7. Julie

    June 19, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    Hi, I think I have the same problem as Anna. My son has a calendar I can see in my google calendar (shared), but I can’t see these on my iTouch. I’m not really syncing to more than one calendar, just trying to see everything on my iTouch I see on my computer.

    Thanks

    • MrGroove

      July 1, 2009 at 8:57 am

      @Julie,
      Yeah… Unfortunately Google has not enabled that type of functionality yet from their service. The iPhone/iTouch allows multiple Mailboxes (via iMap) from GMAIL but only 1 calendar. Sorry.

      That being said, WELCOME to the site!

  8. deb rizzi

    June 20, 2009 at 6:06 pm

    Wow! That was fantastic – thanks so much! It saved a lot of re-typing….

    • MrGroove

      July 1, 2009 at 8:57 am

      @deb rizzi,
      ;)

  9. GirlBug

    June 30, 2009 at 1:49 am

    Thank you! That was really easy! Really appreciate this :)

    • MrGroove

      July 1, 2009 at 8:57 am

      @GirlBug,
      Excellent! Your VERY welcome! Welcome to groovyPost!

  10. Bugsy Towns

    July 1, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    Thanks for the post, any thoughts on how to set up an iphone using the corporate exchange server settings?? Do I need administrative access to the exchange server in order to facilitate this option or can I simply be an administrator on the pc with the proper administrative settings?

    • MrGroove

      July 1, 2009 at 3:17 pm

      @Bugsy Towns,

      Hi Bugsy and welcome to groovyPost. The install is actually quite simple as long as you know the Address for the existing Outlook Web Access or OWA. For instance, the address at Microsoft is https://owa.microsoft.com.


      Just follow the same steps above only instead of entering in the Google address for the mail server, enter in the address for your OWA server on the internet.

      Admin rights is not needed on your PC (since it’s not involved) or Exchange since this is all happening on your device. Some companies however do have policies against personal devices connecting to corporate mail systems so you might want to check with your IT guys before you try it out (or risk it!!!).

  11. jaie

    July 14, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    Thank you, works great and super easy to setup.

    • MrGroove

      July 16, 2009 at 10:51 pm

      @jaie,
      Excellent and welcome to groovyPost!

  12. Eddie Provencher

    August 28, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    I can’t get past the password. Please help. I’m using Ipod Touch 2nd Gen OS 3.0. I’d like to sync my google calendar.

  13. henry

    August 30, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    Hi,
    I know what is the problem now, I change my emaill address [abc.123@gmail.com] to [abc123@gmail.com], <= without a dot, and it works now!

    • MrGroove

      August 31, 2009 at 12:03 pm

      @henry,

      Excellent! Great info as well. That’s one thing to remember with GMAIL. GMAIL ignores all Periods ( . ) in the email address. This is a tip to remember in the future. Test it out. Send yourself an email to a.b.c.1.2.3@gmail.com and you will get the email. I use this at times to have multiple accounts on a system however still using a single GMAIL account.

  14. Brenda

    September 1, 2009 at 2:23 pm

    Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!…Love my iTouch, but I have been having such problems getting things to synch!!
    This works great and SOOOO easy to understand!!!

    Thanks again!

    • MrGroove

      September 2, 2009 at 8:50 am

      @Brenda,
      Excellent! Thank you for the feedback.

      • Tom

        January 5, 2012 at 2:35 pm

        Your instructions are not quite what I’m looking for regarding syncing.

        I have a new iPod Touch (4G). I have Windows 7 on my desktop PC with Microsoft Outlook for my calendar and contacts. I have high speed internet with a router.

        I have to figure out how to sync my calendar on my PC with my Ipod Touch calendar. Can you help me?

        Thanks.. Tom

  15. Steve Lankheet

    September 3, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    I get it to sync google to Ipod touch but NOTHING goes over to the Google calendar. Any Idea’s what I did wrong?

    • MrGroove

      September 3, 2009 at 9:27 pm

      @Steve Lankheet,
      What about the other direction? Do changes made on the google calendar show up on your iPod Touch calendar?

  16. Steve Lankheet

    September 3, 2009 at 9:49 pm

    Yes I can add to google calendar and it goes across to ipod touch OS 3

    • MrGroove

      September 22, 2009 at 9:35 am

      @Steve Lankheet,
      If updates are being pulled down from Google then Authentication is working. There must be something else going wrong. Google JUST upgraded the Google SYNC server – http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-sync-now-with-push-gmail-support.html so you should try to remove the existing SYNC account and re-create it.

      BTW – It now supports MAIL as well as Calendar and Contacts so it’s a good time to RESYNC anyway.

  17. Lauren

    September 8, 2009 at 2:53 am

    Hi there.
    Can you please help. I have asked this question of many IT specialists in my area and no-one can give me an easy, straight answer.
    I have an iPhone (updated version 3.0).
    I have Outlook 2003 on my desktop at the office (large corporate with all the bells and whistles on Exchange Server)
    I have Outlook 2007 on my personal laptop/

    My work Outlook syncs to my phone and updates automatically.
    My personal Outlook on my laptop only sync’s when connected with the cable.
    How can I get my laptop to sync automatically?

    I would really appreciate your help with this frustrating dilema.

    Thanks so much!
    Loren

    • MrGroove

      September 22, 2009 at 9:36 am

      @Lauren,
      What email is configured on your personal Laptop? I assume this is your Home email address? Yes/No? Which email provider is it? Yahoo Mail? GMAIL? Hotmail? Verizon Mail? etc…

      Also, what is it you want to SYNC? Email/contacts/calendar – all 1 or 2?

  18. Mike

    September 16, 2009 at 1:20 am

    Worked like a charm on my iTouch! Great directions!

    • MrGroove

      September 22, 2009 at 9:37 am

      @Mike,
      No problem! Thanks for the feedback!

  19. Christopher

    October 12, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    I can’t make it work! I follow all the instructions here, just like I followed all the instructions on the Google website. I use my @gmail.com address. Everything seems like it works, until I actually go to the calendar on my iPod Touch and there is nothing there! It worked using the program Nueva Sync, but I’d rather not have to use some outside program… I want it to work on its own. Any ideas?

  20. Austin

    January 6, 2010 at 5:09 pm

    i have other calendars combined with my calendar on google how do i get those to work when people share calendars with me

  21. MrGroove

    January 7, 2010 at 11:43 pm

    You can subscribe to calendars via the internet share address on the calendar using your iphone. Do a search here on groovypost for how-to subscribe to an internet calendar.

  22. FRUHD

    April 15, 2010 at 5:15 pm

    best how-to guide. thankee. stupid apple is poop for support and gmail’s doesn’t give enough detail for the iPhone/iPod Touch. thank you so much. :)

    • MrGroove

      April 20, 2010 at 11:44 am

      @FruHD – Glad you benefited from the guide. Thnx for the feedback.

  23. msikdm

    April 21, 2010 at 10:08 am

    Thanks ever so much!

  24. Charli

    May 9, 2010 at 10:00 am

    Hi

    This works great for mail and calendar but does not seem to work as well for contacts.

    It has synced my contacts correcly but when I make any changes on my ipod it doesn’t show the changes if I look at my contacts list on my email via computer. Should it work like that?

    Thanks
    Charli

  25. Jim

    May 10, 2010 at 1:07 pm

    hello,

    sorry if this sounds supid but how do i back up my contacts and calendar on ipod touch. they both have thnigs like bdays, annivereries, emails. I do not want to lose these oviously. can someone help me back up my ipod.

    thanks in advance

    Jim (sorry for any typos, i am doing this is a rush)

    ************************
    I have windows vista home edition
    I have ipod touch 8gb (i think it is 2nd g)

    *******************EDIT*****************
    I also want to know if there are any other programs to sync calender with ipod touch – i do not have outlook- i am happy to use google but any other programs would be good-

    thanks in advance

    Jim

  26. Sford33xc

    June 3, 2010 at 10:46 pm

    This was as helpful as the google.com instructions but the problem I am having is that my contacts still won’t sync from my iPod to gmail, rather they only sync to the iPod. You said the gmail won’t sync, however, using the method described here my gmail syncs but not the contacts (and I don’t need the calendar so I haven’t tried it). Any suggestions?

  27. clangdon

    June 25, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    I have a google calendar account but it is set up using sonic.net email extension
    I entered all the information correctly on my new Iphone 4 using the sonic email, but I can not get them to sync.
    do I use gmail extension even though I do not use the email service?

  28. Michelle

    June 30, 2010 at 10:27 am

    I tried this but then when I go to ITunes info and select the calendar to sync it states there are no supported calendars so it doesn’t sync??
    ANy help please let me know at Bureaumm@ g mail dot com

  29. Ricky

    July 2, 2010 at 1:02 pm

    I have an Ipod Touch 2G with OS 4. I use to be able to sync my google’s calendar and its stored on the ipod so I can view it anywhere. Now if I don’t have a WIFI connection, the calendar is empty. Everytime I open up the Calendar, it will wait for a WIFI connection to populate information…otherwise its empty. How do I fix this so I can see my info on the calendar even when I dont have WIFI connection?

  30. Rubywolf

    October 1, 2010 at 9:50 pm

    I followed your instructions, but the incorrect password bubble still pops up. Do you know what’s happening and a way to fix this? Thanks so much.

    • MrGroove

      October 2, 2010 at 3:03 pm

      Is this a GMAIL account or a Google-Apps account that your using? Be sure to use CORRECT email address under the email address field and your google account under the userID ie: jackjohn@gmail.com

      Confirm those 2 things. Looks like I need to update the article. I wrote this over a year ago and a few things have changed since then…

  31. Ryan

    October 2, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    Great help with syncing using Exchange Server. However, I also have a partner whom uses the same iTouch and also wants to see their Gmail Calander stuff. You can only set up one exchange server account. I found that you can set up Gmail Calendar on your Itouch with Caldav accounts as well.
    http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/07/sharing-calendars-with-google-calendar-ical-and-the-iphone.ars

    As of the 3.0 software, the iPhone and iPod touch can also sync in both directions using the CalDAV protocol, as well as subscribe to published .ics feeds. To set up CalDAV syncing, go into the Settings, and select “Mail, Contacts, Calendars.” From there, add an account and choose “other” and add a CalDAV account. Then, select http://www.google.com as the server, and provide your Gmail e-mail address as your username and your password.
    NOTE. It is http://www.google.com NOT m.google.com

    You can add as many caldav accounts as you like

    Thanks again for your help..
    Really appreciate it.

    • MrGroove

      October 3, 2010 at 8:21 pm

      Hi Ryan,

      Thanks for the links and info. BTW – As of IOS 4.x, you can add multiple Exchange Activesync connections. I have 3 on mine currently. That of course assumes you have 4.x running which many complain is WAY to slow on the original iPhone 3.x / iPod Touch.

  32. Rich

    November 13, 2010 at 8:08 pm

    It appears that only contacts that are in the main “My Contacts” group will be synced. If you have a contact stored in another group such as “Friends” but not “My Contacts” it will not sync.

  33. Deb

    November 19, 2010 at 10:13 am

    This worked perfectly for me, EXCEPT it did cause duplications in many of my addresses on my itouch. I tried to clean up the duplicate address by deleting one of them (two identical addresses within one contact on my itouch – all was ok on my desktop) but the result was a deletion of both addresses, thus I lost mailing addresses for many of my contacts. Also, contacts within some desktop contact lists don’t show on my itouch contacts, but when I search for them within global exchange server I can find them. Weird.

  34. Clint Reno

    December 17, 2010 at 4:47 am

    Worked flawlessly, thank you soooo much.

    After this process I was asked by my iPhone what to do with the contacts already on the iphone. Since they’re duplicates of what I have on Gmail, I decided to delete them.

    Love this cloud integration. Only downside is that iphone and google seems to differ about various fields (like IM and addresses).

    Still cool though (y)

  35. Joanne

    January 6, 2011 at 4:08 pm

    I have an iTouch (version 4.2.1) and there is no option for choosing “Use SSL”. The information will not synch with the Gmail calendar. :(

  36. crazy8

    January 21, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    my iPod touch doesn’t let me send emails because it says that my username or password is incorrect but I know that it’s right

  37. Dorrie

    February 15, 2011 at 6:23 am

    Hi there,
    I have a gmail account and I use the online calendar all the time as I have a friend abroad who needs to check it as well form our business.
    I managed to sync the calendar really easily with my iPad by using the exchange email set up and then setting up the iPad to sync and my iPhone.
    However, Im now trying to add my gmail account to my “mail” on my iMac and when I try and set it up it asks for my “outlook web access server”.
    I don’t know what to put in this box as I was not asked this when I set it up on my iPad.
    In the “incoming mail server” I have put ” m.google.com”
    I hope this makes some sense?
    Thanks so much,
    Dorrie

  38. Camille

    February 23, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    Thanks so much for your help – I spent all evening trying to syn my contacts and calendar after purchasing a new computer…looking for a free setup until I can get new software. This finally did it! Appreciate your help!

  39. Karina

    March 30, 2011 at 10:44 pm

    this was very easy and fast i wish i woulda found this site sooner i searched the web for hours and nothing was giving me answers!! thanks!! :)) four thumbs up!!!!!

  40. Alyssa

    April 13, 2011 at 11:20 pm

    Does this BACK UP old calendar entries? I want to back up my whole calendar- all of my events since 2008. Does this do that? Thanks!!

    • grooveDexter

      April 13, 2011 at 11:33 pm

      Unfortunately, I don’t think Google Calendar will sync items older than 1-month. This is mostly because of the Exchange system limitations. You can however sync up your phone to Outlook, iCal, or Thunderbird and then export the data into Google Calendar from there.

  41. Vincent

    April 17, 2011 at 4:09 pm

    Hi all,

    I just found a solution to adding/showing multiple calendars from your Google Calendar account (tested on iOS 4.3.2 on an iPod Touch 3rd generation)!
    I thought I’d share this with you all, since I couldn’t find a solution for this in the comments.

    I added my Gmail mail as a Microsoft Exchange account (see the comments above), so I now have Push-capabilities. If you add Gmail through the Gmail option, ironically and unfortunately you won’t have Push-capabilities, which means you have to manually check for new e-mails… So add your Gmail (Mail + Contacts) through Microsoft Exchange, and disable Calendars in the account sync options.

    Then, add your Google Calendar calendars with Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account… > choose Gmail
    Enter your data and choose to sync Calendars only, so disable Mail and Contacts.
    By now you will see only one calendar (your primary calendar).
    Now, to enable more calendars: go to https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect , log-in to your Google account and choose which calendars you want to show on your iPhone/iPod Touch.

    Good luck!

  42. leslie

    September 27, 2011 at 10:57 pm

    I have a problem!!! I set up my gmail account and my microsoft exchange account on my ipod touch. I started to use my google calendar as my main calendar. I recently got a message from school saying I could sync my exchange calendar with my ipod so I did. I did not realize I switched my main calendar from google to exchange when I did that!!! I now have everything on my exchange calendar and nothing on my google calendar so when I use my google app on my ipod… there is nothing to sync. I am not sure if I can combine the calendars on my ipod or if I can some how sync my ipod with my exchange account??? I can only see my calendar on my ipod and there is no longer a backup on the computer. I am screwed if I loose my ipod!

  43. Lisa

    December 9, 2011 at 8:30 am

    this was super helpful and got my google contacts on my ipod. your instructions were super easy. thank you!

  44. Tom

    March 12, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    . I’m wondering if you can help me with synchronizing my iPod touch 4G with both my home calendar and my work calendar?

    right now, I’m using the Microsoft office Outlook 2010 calendar on both work and home PCs. I’m not happy with the way they sync for the following reason: at my office, I use the cable to connect to iTunes and synchronize with my calendar on the office PC. That works great. But when I come home and I use the cable to try to sync with my home PC, it requires that I my home computer by replacing my home computer calendar with my iPod calendar. That choice is okay until I enter new dates on my home PC. At that time, it does not automatically sync with the iPod unless I exercise a choice that deletes everything on the iPod and replaces it with the content oon the home PC. The bottom line is that I can’t really use the calendar on my home PC.

    Is it possible to do what I want to do by using Google calendar on both home and office PCs as well as on my iPod Touch? Paragraph thank you for your advice. Tom

  45. Susan

    March 24, 2012 at 1:24 pm

    I can’t thank you enough for this information. I’ve been wracking my brain to find out how to back up my calender so I can update to Ios5 for my iPod touch. I just really needed some easy picture by picture instructions that I could follow and yours did the trick. Thank you again so much.

    • Tom

      March 24, 2012 at 9:50 pm

      Susan… which of the e-mail instructions above did you follow that you are expressing thanks for? There are a lot of instructions!

  46. Lise

    April 7, 2012 at 10:45 am

    Hello

    I have a new iPhone 4 and followed the instructions in the main message to synch my contacts. Now I have the incorrect password problem often mentionned here above.

    I tried the various solutions proposed here but none works – I just did not find the Wi FI settings.

    Any idea ?

    Tanks !

  47. Galyaeli

    August 30, 2014 at 7:59 am

    Hi,
    I have the same issue as Christopher wrote
    “October 12, 2009 at 6:35 pm #
    I can’t make it work! I follow all the instructions here, just like I followed all the instructions on the Google website. I use my @gmail.com address. Everything seems like it works, until I actually go to the calendar on my iPod Touch and there is nothing there! ”

    I’m trying to set it on my Husband iPhone iOS 4.3.2
    i want to sync his info before i upgrade his iOS
    It let me set the new account saying all is well, but once it set you go to mail/contact or calnder and you get an error msg. saying conection to the server as failed and it wont let me see the info.
    pls. note his email as dots in it: name.last name.no’@gmail.com

    Pls. HELP
    Thanks

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