How to have a Gmail on the Watch? (Not using Apple’s Mail app?)

[HappyDude20]

I love gmail and detest Apple’s native mail app.

I want to have gmail on my wrist so as to prevent picking up my phone all that often.

What kind of solution would be the best?

 

[Graham4723]

I don’t think you can, directly.
i have both gmail and outlook apps linked together within Spark.
I then ‘repeat’ the Spark notifications on the watch.
You could do the same but just link gmail to Spark....

 

[HappyDude20]

Bit the bullet and got Gmail on Apple's Mail' not as bad I guess I had original thought. Oh well.

 

[Significant1]

If it is the lack of push support I have my gmail configered to forward to a icloud address (you can create and have more than one icloud account on your phone, each with 5gb free storage), which I have configered as mail account on my phone->watch. I changed the outgoing server to Gmail's, so if I respond, it is still send from my Gmail.

It Works perfectly and fully transparent, however I still recommend you check gmail regularly. E.g. if something falsely goes to Gmail's spam folder it will not be forwarded and some (mostly security) mails have extra sender verification and are rejected by Apple's server if forwarded.

 

[HappyDude20]

If it is the lack of push support I have my gmail configered to forward to a icloud address (you can create and have more than one icloud account on your phone, each with 5gb free storage), which I have configered as mail account on my phone->watch. I changed the outgoing server to Gmail's, so if I respond, it is still send from my Gmail.

it's more about the features the gmail app has. but apple's mail seems to have most of the same options, just perhaps with a an extra tap or two along the way. I did it mainly because I want to be able to reply to emails once they come in on the watch.