iPad: How to Sync with your Gmail Contacts
Posted by Rob Rogers in Apple Mac
If you’re a Gmail user and need your contacts on your iPad, there’s an easy method for doing this that doesn’t requires only your iPad and iTunes. You’ll need to hook up to iTunes each time that you wish to sync contacts, but it beats coughing up $99 per year for MobileMe.
1. Connect your iPad to your computer and open iTunes if it doesn’t open automatically.
2. Locate your iPad in the left column of iTunes, under Devices.
3. Select the Info tab.
4. Check the Sync Contacts with checkbox.
5. Check the Sync Google Contacts checkbox. Click the Configure button.
6. Agree with the terms.
7. Input your Gmail email address and password. Click OK.
Your Gmail contacts will be synced with your iPad.
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April 29, 2010 at 1:51 am, Anonymous said:
When I do this, it responds that my password or is incorrect. I know I am entering the right info since I signed out od gmail and logged in using the same info. I have tried it multiple times.
August 06, 2010 at 1:04 pm, bugburnert said:
worked perfectly. Thanks
September 21, 2010 at 7:16 am, Norman said:
jerryburns, try this way out to to sync and you don’t have to use itunes, http://www.thomasecook.com/how-tos/how-to-synchronize-your-google-gmail-contacts-calendars-to-your-ipad-without-using-itunes/
October 18, 2010 at 3:47 pm, Blake Rymer said:
it work…are they supposed to show in the Contacts app
October 18, 2010 at 3:48 pm, Blake Rymer said:
it did not work…are they supposed to show in the iPad Contacts app?