Unless you changed something the contacts, calendars and mail will already be syncing. If you even once used the Google Play app store you´ll have your gmail account linked to your device already. Select "On My Mac" and follow the straightforward "Synchronize with Google" option. This one is more straightforward just go into the addressbook and Preferences. After you complete the account setup ive your device some time to update everything.įollow this same setup on all your iOS devices. I therefore recommend you only sync contacts this way. If you are already syncing Gmail using a normal gmail account setup then don´t sync mail or calendars again here or you´ll confuse things. We can leave it to the conspiry theorists to figure why you need to do this (and moreso the next part) but iCloud and Google contacts sync don´t play together - go figure.įor iPhone, iPad, iPod go to Settings under Mail, Contacts, Calendars and create a new Mail account for, wait for it: Microsoft Exchange (yes that´s right you need to use the Microsoft Exchange setting to sync contacts from Google to Apple devices - the mind boggles) Fill out the form as follows:Ĭlick next and it will come back and add one more box for:Ĭlick next again and you should be able to choose what to sync. Turn OFF iCloud sync for contacts - this might seem counter intuitive but it´s critical.
This will allow contacts to sync to Google.Ĭonfigure both the above addons to sync to your Gmail account.
You will need the Zindus Add-on Download and install that in Thunderbird. If it isn´t already install the "Lightning" addon for Thunderbird (part of the default now) This will allow the calendar to sync to Google.
If you don´t then you can just skip that part and everything will still work fine for sync between mobile devices and Gmail So this method will rely on sharing your data with Google - if you don´t like that, might as well stop reading now.Īsumption: you have a Gmail account already - otherwise you´ll need to signup for oneĪsumption: You want to use Thunderbird for desktop mail. I have tried many solutions over the last 3 years to find a way to keep my data OFF the cloud but basically they are all to unreliable to be trusted.
Palm had this working with Eudora back in the day flawlessly! There is a solution though and it involves some mighty strange but simple tricks.įirst, for those that don´t want to use Gmail to achieve this goal - I can´t help you. Really this is very rudamentry data and should be easy but for some reason it isn´t. I have a Mac, PC, Android, iPhone and iPad plus I use Thunderbird for mail on the PC and want all these things to seamlessly sync up their calendar and contacts.
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