How To Add A Google Apps Account To Your IPhone Or IPad

While you can add Google accounts to the iPhone or iPad quickly and easily, these connections sync your emails via IMAP, which can be slow and may not always sync as well as you’d expect. This means delayed emails and greater battery drain as you check your email. Instead of doing this, users with Google Apps email accounts for work, education or government can use Google Sync to connect their accounts, giving them faster email access, less battery draw, and an all-around better experience. Here’s how to set up your Google Apps account on your iPhone or iPad. For this process to work, you do have to have a current Google Apps account for work, education or government. Older, free Google Apps accounts won’t work for this, and neither will standard Gmail accounts. If you’re interested in signing up for email with Google Apps, click here. If you have a Google Apps account that fits the criteria above, you’re ready to continue. The next step is to make sure Push email is turned on for your device.

Go to Settings and tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Scroll down and tap on Fetch New Data. Make sure that Push is turned on, and you’re all set. First, open Settings on your device and tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars. On this screen, tap on Add Account and then on Exchange. Enter your full email address for your Google Apps account along with your password, and a good account name so you remember what this account is later when checking your email. Then tap on Next. Everything else should already be filled out, so tap Next to continue. If you entered your information correctly, you should now be presented with the screen where you select the services to sync. Choose what you want to sync and tap Save. As long as you turn on Mail syncing and have Push enabled on your device, you should start automatically downloading your Google Apps emails. Duplicate contacts killing your productivity, See how Scrubly can help in this 100-second video. There’s quite a bit of tweaking you can do to your Google Apps account inside iOS 8, including adjusting how the Trash works and even sending emails as an alias. For more on adjusting Google Apps for iOS settings, check out Google’s help page. The ability to use Push syncing for your account is a big plus to having a Google Apps account. Google Apps is cheap, easy, and a great way to have all the benefits of a custom email address with the simplicity of Gmail.

Yesterday I received a call from a friend asking how to set up a Hotmail email account on her new iPhone. I was actually surprised she was asking this because she already has an iPad and didn’t seem to have any problem setting up Hotmail on it. Note that these instructions have been written for Hotmail, but the process is exactly the same whether you want to set up an Outlook, Live, or MSN account. This tutorial shows you how to do this on an iPhone, but the steps are identical on iPad. As noted above, the process is the same whether you have a Hotmail, Live, or MSN email account. Step 3: A login page will appear on your screen. First, enter you email address and tap Next. Step 4: Enter your Hotmail email password, and tap Sign in. Step 5: Tap Yes to confirm you want to give permission to iOS to access your data.



Step 6: Select what Hotmail data you want to have access to on your iPhone. You can choose to sync your email, contacts, calendars, and reminders with Hotmail. By default everything is turned on. Once you have selected what you want, tap Save. Step 7: Go to the Mail application on your iPhone. Your newly created Hotmail account should be available there. Additional notes: By default, only one week worth of emails is synced with your iPhone, but you can easily change that. If you want to have access to all your emails, choose No Limit. As you can tell, setting up Hotmail on iPhone is pretty straightforward. Remember that adding Hotmail to iPad is just as easy. Just follow the steps above and you should be up and running in no time. Maybe the most important here is to remember that Hotmail is now Outlook, and although it doesn’t change anything for you as a user, the Outlook option is the one you must choose to get Hotmail working on your iPhone.