gmail wont setup on iphone 5

I've actually found that the problem returns every few days, but once the device-specific password is set all you have to do to get it working again is to restart Mail:

- double-click the home button

- press and hold the Mail icon

- hit the 'close' icon

- reopen Mail

Or you can restart the entire phone, but who does that? 😝

I turned 2 step verification ON and that fixed it for me.

Two step verification On/Off - in both cases gmail as exchange does not work. If I add as gmail account (6.1.2) in both cases work ok. But I wanna ad it as exchange account.

Any ide?

Gmail on iPhone 5 wouldn't work, simply deleted account on iPhone and re-added it and then worked. Might have something to do with whether you set phone up new or installed from an encrypted iPhone 4 backup. I did and so far only Gmail migration did not work.

RoBuszek wrote:

Two step verification On/Off - in both cases gmail as exchange does not work. If I add as gmail account (6.1.2) in both cases work ok. But I wanna ad it as exchange account.

Google stopped supporting Exchange for free Gmail accounts as of 30 Jan 13.

Gmail set up perfectly on my iPad, but it would just crash out of settings, so I couldn't even set up gmail on my iPhone 5.

Decided to set it up manually, rather than through the "Gmail" option in settings. I followed the steps on this link http://www.wikihow.com/Setup-Gmail-on-an-iPhone and it is now set up and works perfectly on my iPhone 5.

I think there was a message during setup about the ssl, so after it was set up I went back into settings and saw that ssl was off - once I turned it on my gmail came through fine and I could change the Server selections for Drafts, Sent and Trash.

Thanks frc393 that worked a trick! thanks!

Hi, just had this issue with my new iPhone 5; now, I took a different route, no need to mess with Google settings, you just need to connect to a Wifi network and don't use you cellular data plan to add your Gmail account; it worked inmediately. I was also having problems with an outlook.com account, and it was solved after I used my Wifi network. Just don't use your data plan to connect to your Gmail account. By the way, as it was added, now the Gmail account works also with cellular data plan. Hope this helps.

I had the same problem until I used an "application specific password" on gmail.

Oh man, thanks for the reminder. Totally forgot about app specific pw's. Solved my issue. Thanks!

Thank you so much!!

I had been trying to verify my Gmail account for weeks but eventually gave up and downloaded the Gmail App instead.

I had my company Gmail account working just fine with the Mail App, but my personal one just wouldn't verify.

I was okay with it until today when I wanted to email a picture to a friend of mine and just wouldn't do it through my work email. Your reply saved me!!

I used the Application-specific Password, spaces included, and it worked perfectly!

What a relief!!!

Adding in the two step verification through Gmail account settings worked instantly for both my iphone 5 and ipad.

Per pacekm above,

"The iphone is not compatible with gmail's 2-step authentication process. You DO NOT need to turn it off, there is a section titled "Application Specific Passwords" under Account>Security in your google settings.

You go in there and have it generate a one time password, you use this generated password to put in the password field when setting up your gmail account on the iphone instead of your normal password associated with your gmail account.

This is a "work around" for applications that do not support the 2-step authentication process, without turning the added security off.

Hope this helps!"

This person is a genius. Such a small little work around, yet no where was this found in any support docs. IT totally worked. THANK YOU!

~Alex

I had the same problem when upgrading from an iPhone3 (gmail worked perfectly) to an iPhone5 (it stopped working). For me, the problem was not 2-step verificiation - it was never switched on. I solved the problem by deleting the gmail account on my iPhone and then re-installing it, as someone else has done in this thread, with the same result. It all came good! So try that first!

Note that I have other, non-gmail accounts, and they transferred perfectly from my iPhone3 to my iPhone5.

This DID the trick. Thanks!