iPhone natively has Gmail support but it doesn’t allow you to sync mail, contacts, calendars to integrate full push service. Here are the instructions to maximize your Gmail iPhone experience!
- Tap Settings on the iPhone Home screen.
- Go to Mail, Contacts, Calednars and add account
- Choose Microsoft Exchange instead of Gmail.
- Enter your Gmail address (“example@gmail.com”, for example) under Email.
- m.google.com under Domain.
- Your full Gmail address under Username.
- Enter your Password.
- Optionally, “Gmail” under Description.
- Tap Next.
- Choose Accept if the iPhone is unable to verify the “gmail.com” certificate.
- Enter “m.google.com” under Server.
- Tap Next again.
- Make sure Mail is ON.
- Turn ON Calendars if you want iPhone Calendar to sync with Google Calendar; note that iPhone Calendar can synchronize only with one calendar source, and Google Calendar will replace an existing MobileMe or, iCal or Exchange calendar.
- Turn ON Contacts only if you have copied your existing contacts to Gmail. Otherwise, your existing iPhone address book will be replaced with your Gmail contacts.
- Tap Done