If you want to use Apple's stock Calendar app:
Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
Add your Gmail/Google account if it's not already listed, and turn on Calendars within this account's settings.
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If you want to use Apple's stock Calendar app:
Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
Add your Gmail/Google account if it's not already listed, and turn on Calendars within this account's settings.
This is seriously my most anticipated app... The stock iOS calendar app is terrible. Syncing it across my family's devices is a pain as it only seems to do it when it wants, leading us to manually refresh our calendars in order to see changes and new events (this can be done by going to the calendar list in the app and pulling down).
Yep, supper annoying. Events I add on desktop don't show up on iPhone until I OPEN the calendar app and give it some time to pull Google data.
That's actually pretty easy, go into the accounts section of settings in iOS, add a Google account, and check off which of the services, including calendar, you want to sync with your device. If memory serves all you have to do is enter your name and password for your Google account. Then under the calendar app, you will see a section for your Google calendars you have access to.
My problem is, I don't find the Calendar app to be great. I use BusyCal on OS X, but unfortunately they don't have an iOS version of that program...
Thanks for the advice, but I'm not inept lol. It's not a regular gmail address, it's a Google Apps address with some sort of company server-side authentication. Regular email won't work with the Mail app and I've tried setting it up via the normal Gmail option and the Exchange option.
I think my company has to have Google Sync or whatever service it is enabled. I can't figure out a workaround, not even through caldav. That's why I'm using the Gmail app for work email and am looking forward to their Calendar app.
Now they need to create a google contacts app for iPhone so ios users can access google groups. It should be more than the many third party apps that sync to the ios address book, it should be a dedicated app for google contacts. It should allow users to open all handlers and links in Google apps (ie telephone numbers should open in hangouts, addresses should open in Google maps, text messages should open in Google voice or Google hangouts, urls should open in chrome, video calls in hangouts, emails in gmail or inbox, birthdays and dates in Google calendar, and share contacts as vcf files via Google voice or Google hangouts). There should also be a way to export and import all contacts with pictures using a vcf file. It would also be nice if it supported multiple google accounts.
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The best of both worlds. Google offers most of its apps for iOS unlike the piss poor support for Windows phone. The other thing is that Google's apps are as good or better than its android counterpart (except hangouts, no integration with dialer or contact names on incoming calls).
My iPhone 6+
My iPad Air 2
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The best of both worlds. Google offers most of its apps for iOS unlike the piss poor support for Windows phone. The other thing is that Google's apps are as good or better than its android counterpart (except hangouts, no integration with dialer or contact names on incoming calls).
My iPhone 6+
My iPad Air 2
That's because you are using the crappy Google Calendar service that doesn't support free push calendars, contacts, or email. If you used a real calendar service like iCloud that supports free push calendars, contacts, and email, you wouldn't have that problem.
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Same as above. It's the crappy Google services that don't support free push and require you to manually update. iCloud supports free push for your calendars, contacts, and email so your stuff updates immediately across all devices.
Blaming Google's weak web tools on iOS Calendar is simply wrong. The iOS Calendar app can't make Google Calendar do something it can't do. When Google's services catch up with the rest of the competition like Exchange and iCloud, it will sync immediately in iOS Calendar as well.
Does iCloud support push on Android? You can get push email for Google on iOS by installing either gmail or inbox. Once Google calendar comes out you'll get push calendar too. Now the only thing that is missing is a dedicated contacts app.
I am not a fan of google for privacy issues. However, I do wish that Apple would allow you to choose what your default apps are. You can only choose a search engine within Safari, but you cannot change the default web surfing app. You cannot change the default app or mail app either.
Most would probably stick with the default app (this is what Microsoft did of course), but I have a hard time using apps that don't integrate. I love being in Safari and clicking on a phone number or an address and the correct app opening up and working. Having a google app is great for those that don't care as much about privacy as I do, but how good can it be when it does not integrate with the other apps.
Most would probably stick with the default app (this is what Microsoft did of course), but I have a hard time using apps that don't integrate. I love being in Safari and clicking on a phone number or an address and the correct app opening up and working. Having a google app is great for those that don't care as much about privacy as I do, but how good can it be when it does not integrate with the other apps.
Well there is always jailbreaking for that. Browser Changer will let you change the default browser and the default gps to Google maps.
Curious. What exactly does that mean? Is the presumption you're more privacy conscious than someone who uses Google services? If that is the thought, could you tell me how. I don't mean it in an accusatory way, but not using Google doesn't make you any more or less privacy conscious than any other person. It just means your focus is on Google and not the myriad other companies that make use of your digital footprint.
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And as hard as it is to believe now, that's exactly the world Steve Jobs originally envisioned.
The Guardian said:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2011/oct/24/steve-jobs-apps-iphone
Should Google ever decide to pull its apps for iOS, you'll change your iTune real fast!!
This...I love Google Now, Calendar, etc... But, the iPhone blows any Android device out of the water imho. I have tried many Android devices, and always come back to iPhone.
should google ever decide to pull its apps for ios, you'll change your itune real fast!!
Lol.....
Should Google ever decide to pull its apps for iOS, you'll change your iTune real fast!!
When their users are the product and their customers are Google AdSense buyers, pulling their iOS apps would be the mobile equivalent of cutting of their nose to spite their face. There is a reason why Google rushed out a Google Maps app after Apple Maps in iOS 6 killed Google's access to user location data.
To be fair, most of Apple's services are rubbish in comparison. If I had to move to Android, the only services/apps I would really miss are iMessage & Friend Finder. There are very good/better alternatives to everything else.
iOS just works so much better than Android which is the only thing in Apple's favour right now.
You must be joking. Google's services are so far behind Apple's right now it's hilarious. iCloud has free push, syncs perfectly, and creates full backups. There's Apple Pay, Handoff, Continuity, Passbook, iTunes, Siri, iMessage, FaceTime, iTunes U, iBooks, Garageband, and iMovie. None of which Google comes close to beating and most they don't even provide. But everybody has their opinions and the beauty of the iPhone is that you get to use the superior Apple services plus you get to also use the Google services if that's your preferences and you don't value your privacy.
With Android you don't get that choice. When it comes to the big two, you're stuck with just Google (along with a much greater loss of privacy due to Google's primary business concerns). I like choice and I like privacy and that's why I choose the iPhone.
Only a fanboy wouldn't mind being completely closed off from one of the big two in tech right now. I'd rather not live in Google's walled garden of Android. With iOS I get the best of Apple, Google, and Microsoft plus all the awesome stuff created by 3rd party developers who have consistently preferred iOS over Android.
Walled garden of android? I don't even.. That's some pretty priceless rhetoric there
Apple is typically not synonymous with choice, with (approved ) mobile apps perhaps.
OT: Google apps are often better on iOS.
Apple is typically not synonymous with choice, with (approved ) mobile apps perhaps.
OT: Google apps are often better on iOS.
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So can you use all the aforementioned apps on Android or not? The fact of the matter is there are two big companies in tech right now. And you really have to be a fanboy to force yourself into Android's walled garden where out of the big two, you can only use Google's stuff.
With iOS you can use all the best from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and 3rd party developers. You have the freedom of choice. Not to mention all the choice of accessories for the iPhone and choice of the best apps because developers prefer iOS over Android.
I have an Android but it's frustrating to use because of all the restrictions of not having the apps and accessories like I get with my iPhone. Not to mention you can't even use apps from the biggest company in tech, Apple. That's probably the biggest frustration with Android. I can't use any of Apple's apps and services with it and Microsoft's offerings are subpar too. Pretty much stuck in Google's walled garden.
Meanwhile on the iPhone, I have all of Apple's great software and services supplemented by Microsoft and Google as well. For example, Microsoft Office on iOS is pretty awesome and the version on Android simply doesn't compare. And you can't even get Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on Android while Google's office apps are available on iOS. And there are so many 3rd party apps that are either nonexistent or subpar on Android compared to iOS. Android's walled garden is pretty suffocating.
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Oh and I forgot Safari. The web browser in Android sucks big time in comparison.
I've never heard someone use the term walled garden like you do. Generally it refers to the inability to install apps from third party sources, which only applies to iOS.
The only thing I miss on android is iMessage/ FaceTime but ymmv
This thread makes me feel like I've been dropped into an alien world. After several years of iPhones and after years of owning computers since we powered them with coal, I have yet to use a digital calendar. The only time I ever open the calendar app is to see what day of the week a certain day falls on. The only time I opened iCal on my Macs was when the skeuomorphism debate happened around the time of Forstall's exile. ("oh yeah, a leather bound graphical calendar really does look stupid...")
If every calendar app in the world stopped working immediately, my life wouldn't change.
I remember watching Steve announce iCal, and all the publish/subscribe stuff that it did, and I thought it would be ok for workgroups, but I couldn't see any reason for me to start filling it in for personal use. I mean, looking at some of the screen shots from the calendars mentioned (Sunrise, Fantastical, etc), I started cracking up while reading them. "Running in the park", "work from home", "get a haircut", and my favorite "mow the lawn". Really? Someone needs a notification from their calendar program to mow their lawn? Doesn't looking out the window help them?
Like I said, for workgroups, probably an interesting tool. For personal use, not any better than a piece of paper for me. What benefit do you guys get from using a calendar program? Lets hear some stories.
If every calendar app in the world stopped working immediately, my life wouldn't change.
I remember watching Steve announce iCal, and all the publish/subscribe stuff that it did, and I thought it would be ok for workgroups, but I couldn't see any reason for me to start filling it in for personal use. I mean, looking at some of the screen shots from the calendars mentioned (Sunrise, Fantastical, etc), I started cracking up while reading them. "Running in the park", "work from home", "get a haircut", and my favorite "mow the lawn". Really? Someone needs a notification from their calendar program to mow their lawn? Doesn't looking out the window help them?
Like I said, for workgroups, probably an interesting tool. For personal use, not any better than a piece of paper for me. What benefit do you guys get from using a calendar program? Lets hear some stories.
No stories needed. Different people do things differently. There is no right or wrong or good or bad just what works for you.