Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Sync your Google Calendar with your iphone

Most solutions to sync your iphone with your google calendar involves a 3rd party solution such as ical etc..  but you do not need to involve a 3rd party software/provider.


Steps are:
1. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account > Other > Add CalDAV Account


2. For the CalDAV settings, enter the following information. Note that your username should be the email address you use to access your Google calendar as well as the password.



3. Then tap “Next” and it should verify your information.

4. If you can’t get your account verified, tap “Advanced settings” and make sure that “Use SSL” is On, that the port is 443, and that your Account URL includes the sign “@” in your email address.



That’s it!

Now every time you add an event to your iPhone calendar, it will also show up on your Google calendar, and vice versa. You obviously need to have internet access from your iPhone for the data to sync. Note that the sync is not immediate. It sometimes takes a few seconds but besides this, it works very well.



Hope that helps someone.