How sodding difficult is it to sync a Gmail calendar with IOS

**Pondlife** · 2 July 2014, 10:12

Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

My ex and I have set up a Gmail account to use as a calendar for the kids so we both know whats happening, also any school news letters are given this one address etc, email is working fine across all devices, calendar is sync'd to my MacBook but I can't get it working for love nor money on my iPhone, and its driving me nuts!

Use SSL ticked, Port 993 ?

Works ok on mine AFAIK

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**SimonMac** · 2 July 2014, 10:19

Originally posted by Pondlife View Post

Use SSL ticked, Port 993 ?

Works ok on mine AFAIK

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I can get the calendar to show up, but when I add something on to google it doesn't appear on IOS unless I delete and add the whole calendar again!

**Pondlife** · 2 July 2014, 10:27

Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

I can get the calendar to show up, but when I add something on to google it doesn't appear on IOS unless I delete and add the whole calendar again!

Settings set to Push or scheduled Fetch okay?

**malvolio** · 2 July 2014, 10:41

Take a look at gSyncit...

**administrator** · 2 July 2014, 12:32

Originally posted by malvolio View Post

Take a look at gSyncit...

^ this is you want to sync Outlook with Gmail calenders - works a treat, love it.

This one, or one like it worked for me. Add an account, not a gmail account, google.com as the server and use CalDav:
How To Use CalDAV On iPhone To Sync Google Calendar Without Exchange | Redmond Pie

This with Outlook sync using gSyncit works perfectly. Now, if I had a life I could actually add something to it

**Platypus** · 2 July 2014, 19:01

Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Add Account, choose Exchange and enter your Gmail details.

Here's the link I used when I set my iPhone up with my Gmail calendar:
How to Set Up Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts (Properly) on iOS

Then Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> select your Gmail account -> switch on/off the things you want to sync (in your case probably just the Calendar)

**woohoo** · 2 July 2014, 19:48

Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

My ex and I have set up a Gmail account to use as a calendar for the kids so we both know whats happening, also any school news letters are given this one address etc, email is working fine across all devices, calendar is sync'd to my MacBook but I can't get it working for love nor money on my iPhone, and its driving me nuts!

Might be easier to get back with the ex.

**SpontaneousOrder** · 2 July 2014, 20:12

Mine just works. I stuck an event in gmail, then opened my calendar on my mac and it showed up. Then i looked on my iPhone and it spent a coupe of seconds dumping events into dates, which included my new one.

**SpontaneousOrder** · 2 July 2014, 20:20

I just looked at mine - it's calDav.

How sodding difficult is it to sync a Gmail calendar with IOS