Still, the native Calendar is better than whatever a fancy web page can muster. Would it, then, not be nice to access Google Calendar in iPhone Calendar — and have everything sync back and forth just right?
If you have no other calendars with which to sync, Google Calendar in Calendar app will indeed be nice and syncing — and easy to set up.
Sync Google Calendar with iPhone Calendar
To set up Google Calendar syncing in iPhone and iPod touch Calendar:- Make sure you have no conflicting iCal, Exchange or Outlook calendars with which to synchronize. iPhone Calendar can only sync with one calendaring source.
- Go to Google Sync in iPhone Safari.
- Tap your iPhone under Manage devices.
- Make sure all calendars you want to sync are checked.
- Tap Save.
- Press the Home button.
- Tap Settings on the Home screen.
- Go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
- Tap Add Account... under Accounts.
- Choose Microsoft Exchange.
- Enter your Gmail address under Email.
- Enter "m.google.com" (not including the quotation marks) under Domain.
- Tap your full Gmail address under Username.
- Enter your Google Calendar password under Password.
- Optionally, tap "Google Calendar" under Description.
- Tap Next.
- Enter "m.google.com" under Server.
- Tap Next again.
- Make sure Calendars is ON.
- Turn ON Mail to enable push Gmail in iPhone Mail.
- Turn ON Contacts only if you have copied your existing contacts to Gmail. Otherwise, your existing iPhone contacts will be replaced with your Gmail address book contents.
- Tap Done.
