{"id":929,"date":"2013-02-11T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/?p=929"},"modified":"2013-06-16T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T19:33:02","slug":"add-gmail-contacts-to-ios-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/11\/add-gmail-contacts-to-ios-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Gmail Contacts to iOS 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though many don\u2019t realize it the process for importing your contacts to your iPhone from Gmail Address Book is quite simple. Getting them <em>OUT <\/em>of your iPhone can, depending on how their configured, be much more complicated. But that is for another post. I know that many supposed Mac techs and <strong>B<\/strong>ig<strong>B<\/strong>ox retailers will want to charge you plenty for this simple procedure, please don\u2019t let them.<\/p>\n<p>So here we are going to assume that your entire address book is connected to your Gmail account. To import\/sync them we are going to use iPhone\u2019s Microsoft Exchange configuration. So let\u2019s go:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On your iPhone or iPad, open the Settings app.<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to Mail, Contacts, Calendars and select it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mail-Settings-iPhone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Mail-Settings-iPhone\" alt=\"Mail-Settings-iPhone\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mail-Settings-iPhone_thumb.jpg\" width=\"447\" height=\"272\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Next, add a new account<\/li>\n<li>At the add account screen you\u2019re going to want to select the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Microsoft Exchange option<\/span><\/strong>. This is how we are going to import your Gmail contacts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Exchange-Gmail-Contacts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Exchange-Gmail-Contacts\" alt=\"Exchange-Gmail-Contacts\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Exchange-Gmail-Contacts_thumb.jpg\" width=\"452\" height=\"310\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enter your Gmail address in the email field. Leave the Domain field as \u201cOptional\u201d and fill in your Gmail username (<em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">without the @gmail.com<\/span><\/strong><\/em>) and your password. You can leave the description but remember it so you know what it is later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Form.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Form\" alt=\"Form\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Form_thumb.jpg\" width=\"457\" height=\"412\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click next, the form will update and now include a Server field. In the server field enter m.google.com. Click Next or Done.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/server-gmail-iphone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"server-gmail-iphone\" alt=\"server-gmail-iphone\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/server-gmail-iphone_thumb.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"91\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It will confirm that you want to sync your mail, contacts, and calendars. Slide these to <strong>On for Contacts and Off for the others.<\/strong>\u00a0 Here we were only concerned with Contacts, <strong><em>BUT<\/em><\/strong> you can also synchronize your mail and Calendar too!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy computing!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Edit: after doing this many times for clients and others I\u2019ve found a guy who created a great video on the above steps! You can watch that here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:77b31203-7025-4c23-a94c-08575388d388\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding: 0px;\">\n<div><object width=\"484\" height=\"272\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9zBvmWc_wOQ?hl=en&amp;hd=1\" \/><embed width=\"484\" height=\"272\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9zBvmWc_wOQ?hl=en&amp;hd=1\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 484px; clear: both; font-size: .8em;\">Sync Gmail Contacts to iPhone<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though many don\u2019t realize it the process for importing your contacts to your iPhone from Gmail Address Book is quite simple. Getting them OUT of your iPhone can, depending on how their configured, be much more complicated. But that is for another post. I know that many supposed Mac techs and BigBox retailers will want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/11\/add-gmail-contacts-to-ios-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Add Gmail Contacts to iOS 5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,55,115,9,13],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}