Using GMail to Manage Your iPhone Contacts (and vice versa)

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Post by jsmcallister » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 3:17 PM UTC

Using GMail to Manage Your iPhone Contacts (and vice versa)
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Post by andymoe » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 3:29 PM UTC

I've used this approach since gmail added supported the active sync protocol. It's work out quite well.

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Post by erangalp » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 3:35 PM UTC

The funny thing is that you can do that on Android by default.

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Post by eumenides1 » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 3:39 PM UTC

Hmmm it never occurred to me to do a write up of this process. And it's funny, because I did exactly the same thing in the same order.

Yes, this process works quite well and cleaning up your gmail contacts is a pain, but most important step.

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Post by modeless » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 3:47 PM UTC

One more tip: Gmail has a "merge duplicate contacts" feature that's a huge time saver during the cleanup step.

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Post by illuminate » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 4:48 PM UTC

I did this in the past, however I didn't wipe the existing iPhone contacts and therefore they didn't sync properly to my Google contacts. Now that I'm moved on to Android, is there any way for me to get my contacts out of iCloud?

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Post by jsmcallister » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 7:24 PM UTC

modeless wrote: post #5

One more tip: Gmail has a "merge duplicate contacts" feature that's a huge time saver during the cleanup step.

Great tip. I added it to the original post.