Ok, I'm sure this question comes up again and again, but I'm looking for the best way to keep my Contacts (and preferably calendar too) in sync with Google. I've been using a Mac for quite a few years now. I had an old iPhone 3G for a couple of years, and then it died so for the past year I've been in the Androidosphere. Now I'm back with an iPhone 5.
Keeping Calendar and Contacts in perfect sync with Google on the Android phone was so perfect and seamless, I was tempted not to even switch back to iPhone. But I did.
Now this is going to sound a bit silly, but I have always been a little fuzzy on the concept of syncing. For instance, if you "sync" an iPhone with iTunes, does it work in both directions? I.e., if I have 50 songs in iTunes and none on the phone and I "sync," in which direction does the syncing work? Will it add the 50 songs from iTunes to the phone so that the phone matches iTunes, or will it remove all the songs from iTunes so that iTunes matches the phone?
So I'm running into something similar with Contacts now that I'm on the iPhone 5. I've set up a Google mail account on the iPhone, and also have that same account set up as an Exchange account. My Contacts on my Mac Mini are set to sync with Google. I also have iCloud turned on for Contacts (perhaps iCloud is not necessary?).
Basically, my iPhone has "synced" with so many things that I now have duples and triples of some entries. My phone rings, and I see two or three slightly different names pop up (Dad or Dad Home, etc). To make things worse, in order to enable Facebook on the iPhone, the iPhone apparently pulls in all the contact info for your Facebook friends. Good grief!!
I know I've rambled a bit, but what I'm really looking for here is a way to have a "gold standard" (i.e., Google) for contacts that will sync bidirectionally. So if I change/add/delete a contact on my iPhone5, it is reflected in Google. Likewise, if I change/add/delete in my Google account from any computer, I'd like it reflected on my iPhone5. Make sense?
If I can get this figured out, then I'll move on to syncing the calendar and sharing iTunes over WiFi.
-abs
Keeping Calendar and Contacts in perfect sync with Google on the Android phone was so perfect and seamless, I was tempted not to even switch back to iPhone. But I did.
Now this is going to sound a bit silly, but I have always been a little fuzzy on the concept of syncing. For instance, if you "sync" an iPhone with iTunes, does it work in both directions? I.e., if I have 50 songs in iTunes and none on the phone and I "sync," in which direction does the syncing work? Will it add the 50 songs from iTunes to the phone so that the phone matches iTunes, or will it remove all the songs from iTunes so that iTunes matches the phone?
So I'm running into something similar with Contacts now that I'm on the iPhone 5. I've set up a Google mail account on the iPhone, and also have that same account set up as an Exchange account. My Contacts on my Mac Mini are set to sync with Google. I also have iCloud turned on for Contacts (perhaps iCloud is not necessary?).
Basically, my iPhone has "synced" with so many things that I now have duples and triples of some entries. My phone rings, and I see two or three slightly different names pop up (Dad or Dad Home, etc). To make things worse, in order to enable Facebook on the iPhone, the iPhone apparently pulls in all the contact info for your Facebook friends. Good grief!!
I know I've rambled a bit, but what I'm really looking for here is a way to have a "gold standard" (i.e., Google) for contacts that will sync bidirectionally. So if I change/add/delete a contact on my iPhone5, it is reflected in Google. Likewise, if I change/add/delete in my Google account from any computer, I'd like it reflected on my iPhone5. Make sense?
If I can get this figured out, then I'll move on to syncing the calendar and sharing iTunes over WiFi.
-abs
