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• #MAIL MERGE USING APPLE CONTACTS HOW TO#

Routine backups and syncing are the right moves to make. That’s because services often don’t sync contacts automatically. You may be emailing someone new fairly often, then go to text them and find they’re not in your contacts list. Having one place all your contacts live is smart. Gmail for personal use, iCloud for your Apple devices, Outlook for work – all the unique email providers log your contacts in distinct vaults.

It’s a fair position, but these are a few reasons importing Google contacts to iPhone is a great idea: Many people use Gmail as their default email provider and can’t see a reason to export Google contacts to iPhone. The contact entries in Google and on your iPhone will then be identical, or as close to identical as the two systems allow.Reasons to transfer your Google contacts to iPhone When you're satisfied that the Google contacts are in order, return to iTunes and run the contact-sync option again to copy the newly trimmed list to your phone. To merge these manually, check their entries in the main contact list and click More Actions > Merge Contacts. In my case, 23 duplicate entries were merged automatically but about a half-dozen other dupes remained. Use Google Contacts' automerge function to clear duplicate entries prior to syncing the list with you iPhone contacts via iTunes.Īfter the duplicate entries have been excised, review the contact list to spot any double (or triple or quadruple) entries that automerge may have missed. Click Merge to combine all the duplicates at once. Any redundant entries the scanner locates are displayed with links for more details. Once the iPhone contact information has been added to your Gmail contacts, open the Gmail contacts list and click More actions > Find & merge duplicates. Sync your iPhone and Gmail contacts via iTunes, run Gmail's automerge to winnow the entries, and move the cleaned-up list back to your iPhone. A window will open indicating the number of contacts that will be added, deleted, and modified. You may have to enter your Gmail sign-in information. With your iPhone attached to your PC, choose the Info tab in iTunes, check Sync Contacts with, select Google Contacts in the drop-down menu, and click Sync. Start by backing up your iPhone instructions are provided on the Apple Support site. Since I now use Outlook only to back up my Gmail inbox and Google Calendar, I no longer need the three-way sync, thank goodness.)

#MAIL MERGE USING APPLE CONTACTS HOW TO#

(In a post from 2009 I described how to use Google Sync to combine contacts and calendar entries in Outlook, Gmail, and iPhones. The two lists mirror each other much more accurately now that I combine iTunes' Google sync feature with Google's "Find & merge duplicates" option.

Dozens of these little inconsistencies had appeared in the months since I had last synced my contacts. This hit home the other day when I noticed the entry for a new contact in Google had the person's e-mail addresses but not her phone numbers, and her entry in my iPhone had the phone numbers but not her e-mail addresses. It's nearly impossible to maintain a single list of contact information that our primary phone and e-mail services can share. Contacts just naturally accumulate, but smartphones and e-mail systems collect information about the people we interact with in very different ways.