iPhone & Google Calendar sync

[topaz]

I love my iPhone.  Oh, I love it so much.  But there is one thing that I never was able to do that drove me nuts, and that was keep the calendar on my phone synched with Google Calendar.  I use Google Calendar to schedule pretty much everything in my life now, and not being able to get it reliably on my phone was maddening.

The last time I looked at this, the only solution seemed to involve Google Sync, a tool which looked at best a little kludgy and at worst threatened to lose all of my data if something went wrong.  I elected not to use it.

But as of the iPhone 3.0 update it is possible to make your phone sync directly with GCal: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=151674.

After following that, go to https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect to select the calendars you want to see on your phone.  Make sure you hit "Save".

Voila!  Now I can schedule appointments and -- dare I say it? -- lunch dates! with confidence.  It's like a whole new world, baby.

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Re: But

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I admit to being mystified that I can't sync all of that stuff over the air. But it doesn't bother me as much. I want frequent calendar updates because I subscribe to calendars maintained by other people -- in particular, my wife -- and I want to get updates on those even if I haven't synched my phone to the desktop in a while. Contacts I care a little less about, since I'm the only person in charge of those anyway.