Synch Contacts Across iCloud and Gmail

Question

Synch Contacts Across iCloud and Gmail

My company just moved to Google Apps for business, so I was delighted to find that I could start working on my Mac. The only problem is that I'm a three device guy (got a Mac, iPhone and iPad) and I want to synch my Gmail contacts across all devices. Problems are:

1. In Moutain Lion Contacts, the only synch option w/ Gmail only synchs contacts with the "On My Mac" account in Contacts, and those don't get synch'd to iCloud. If I turn that on the corp Gmail get's synch'd only to my Mac.

2. In iOS, we are using Google's "exchange" service, m.google so I can turn on synching there from Settings. When I do that I get a Forrester partiion in my iOS Contacts that them look like my Gmail address book.

So if I turn on 1, then my Gmail contacts get pushed to On My Mac but not to iCloud, and if I turn on 2, then I have access to my Gmail contacts in a separate part of my iOS Contacts apps. Its all very confusion, I need to keep the same set of contacts in all places.

Help. Recommendations?

Posted on Aug 7, 2012 1:40 PM

Reply

Answer 1

klu

Level 1

15 points

Sep 3, 2012 3:34 AM in response to brianhopkins88

I have exactly the same problem.

The only solution I found was Plaxo:

http://help.plaxo.com/al/12/1/article.asp?aid=1681&n=2&tab=search&bt=4n&r=0.6171 488&s=

Not ideal because you always have to start the mobile client if you want to sync Gmail and iCloud contacts but for me it works quite reliably with about 5,000 contacts.

Reply

Answer 2

Sanjay65

Level 1

15 points

Nov 23, 2012 7:20 AM in response to klu

The link you posted did not work. Anyway I used Plaxo an year back and that gave me huge pain by duplicating my contacts across board. If I again go back to Plaxo I need to be double sure that it works properly. I would appreciate if you can drop in some tips and learning around Plaxo use. But the problem mentioned by Brian Hopkins is exactly what i have got. Brian - could you solve your problem till now, or are still living with it?

Reply