I setup my Gmail using the Gmail when in the "Add Acount.." screen and it does not push emails to my iPhone. Is there a way to setup Gmail so that it will push the email to my device as soon as an email arrived in my Gmail account? If so, some step by step instruction is much appreciated.
Do you have Push turned to On in Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Fetch New Data?
Yes. Push is set to on but Gmail only have Fetch not Push option. The Fetch option under Gmail is ether Manual or 15minutes, 30 minutes, or Hourly.
Sounds like you may have set up Gmail as a POP account rather than an IMAP account. You might try deleting it and recreating it. I believe when you tap Gmail in Create Account it defaults to setting it up as IMAP. If this still doesn't work for you set it up as an exchange account as described here: http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740.
Setup GMail as an Exchange account... http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740
Or, use the GMail app... http://appshopper.com/productivity/gmail
Many thanks for all the help. I've decided to use Exchange. That's awesome. It works fine now.
You're welcome.
A word of caution when using Exchange for GMail ...
When you delete a message it will get Archived (to "All Mail") and not actually go to the trash as you'd expect. When setup as a standard GMail account in iOS you have the option to change this behavior in your device's Settings, but when you use Exchange you no longer have this option on your iPhone.
To make deleted messages go to Trash you have to make the change directly on Google's servers. To do that, use your iPhone's Safari to navigate to m.google.com/sync and change the setting -- this can only be done from the device itself, not from your computer.
I learned this the hard way, I found 6 months of trashed e-mails sitting in All Mail!
Thanks for the additional tip. That is very helpful. I just got my enabled.
And now that google disables google sync?
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