How To Sync An IPhone With Your Outlook Calendar Or Google Calendar

You can sync your iPhone with outlook calendar as well as Google calendar. The process is quite simple. Outlook calendar can be synced with iTunes software whereas iCal is used to sync Google calendar with your iPhone. Upgrade it to the most recent version (recommended). For this you need click the Help menu on the header and then choose the option - "Check for Updates". Connect the iPhone cable to your computer. Now, choose iPhone as the source list and then click the "Info" tab. Choose the option "Sync Outlook calendars" and press "Apply" button. Your computer would now sync the calendar with your iPhone based on the settings in the software. Login to Google account with your username and password. Once authentication is successful, visit the Google calendar page. Now choose the calendar that you want to sync by pressing the downward arrow on the left bar. Choose "Share this calendar" from the drop down menu. Then, click on the tab named "Calendar Details". Locate the "Private Address" section at the bottom. Then, click on the green button named "iCal". A pop-up window will appear now that would display the URL of the private address of your Google calendar. This is a very important link as it gives complete access to your calendar. Hence, do not share this link with anybody else. Launch the iCal application. Choose "Calendar" option from the top menu and click "Subscribe". Click on "Subscribe" to subscribe your iPhone to your personal calendar. An information window would open where you need to type the name and also write a short description about the calendar. Now, you can choose what all to import. For example, you may choose not to import attachments / alarms whereas you may want to import "To Do Items".

You can count the ways in which the iPhone's Calendar application is better than Google Calendar in Safari. In fact, you can count them using the fingers on only one hand. Still, the native Calendar is better than what a fancy web page can muster. Wouldn't it be nice, then, to access Google Calendar in iPhone Calendar—and have everything sync back and forth just right, No problem: Syncing is easy to set up. Select Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Select Add CalDAV Account. Tap the Google Calendar account's email address under User Name, too. Enter your Google Calendar password under Password. Option: Tap Google Calendar under Description. Make sure you have no conflicting iCal, Exchange or Outlook calendars with which to synchronize. Phone Calendar can sync with only one calendaring source. Go to Google Sync in iPhone Safari. Tap your iPhone under Manage devices. Make sure all calendars you want to sync are checked. Tap Settings on the Home screen. Go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Enter your Gmail address. Tap your full Gmail address under Username. Enter your Google Calendar password under Password. Option: Tap Google Calendar under Description. Make sure Calendars is On. Turn on Mail to enable push Gmail in iPhone Mail. Turn on Contacts only if you have copied your existing contacts to Gmail. Otherwise, your existing iPhone contacts will be replaced with your Gmail address book contents.

Calendar app on your iPhone and iPad has actually made the position of personal assistant or personal secretary redundant in corporations. The reason behind this fact is simple: Calendar helps you create events and tasks and also helps you remember many things in your professional and personal life. Ever since the integration of Siri in iOS devices, this app has become all the more useful and exciting. Siri is now your personal assistant and therefore, you can give certain commands to carry out some tasks without using your fingers. Using Calendar app with Siri is an amazing experience as you can smoothly create a Calendar event, update & cancel the event, and finally view and check Calendar with the help of Siri. To begin with, we will create an event and then will perform some experiments like updating and cancelling the same event. Creating an event in the Calendar app on iPhone can be a task for some, who manually create and manage events.

First off, summon Siri by pressing and holding the Home button (If you have enabled Hey Siri, just speak Hey Siri). Now give Siri command: Schedule/set/fix a meeting/appointment with Dhvnaesh at 4 pm tomorrow. Siri will ask you to confirm your action. You can either tap on Confirm or just say “Confirm” and your meeting or appointment will be scheduled for the day. Please note that if you schedule another event at the same time, same day, Siri will ask you either to override the scheduled event or cancel the one you want to schedule. Now that you have set an event, you can always go back and change or update the event. For example, you have fed Siri with the wrong time. So ask Siri to change the time. Summon Siri on your iPhone or iPad. Command Siri to change or update the event: Reschedule or reset my 4 pm meeting with Dhvnaesh today. Upon this, Siri will ask your new time and date. After feeding new time (5 pm) and date, Siri will again ask for your confirmation. Say “Yes” or tap on Confirm.