How to set up Gmail on iPhone

Have you just bought an iPhone , have a Gmail account and would like to be able to manage your electronic correspondence directly and comfortably from the “iPhone by”? If the answer is yes but you don’t have the faintest idea how to do it, know that I have good, indeed excellent news to give you: I can explain, step by step, how to configure Gmail on iPhone .

Whether you want to use the official app of the famous e-mail service, configure it in Mail (the default iOS app for managing e-mails) or use even different applications, do not worry: you will find everything explained below and you I assure you that you will be able to reach your goal in no time.

How do you say? In addition to email, would you like to have Gmail calendars and contacts on your iPhone? No problem, in the final part of the tutorial you will find indications for this too. But let’s go in order.

Index

• How to set up Gmail on iPhone: Gmail app
• How to set up Gmail on iPhone: Mail
• How to set up Gmail on iPhone: IMAP
• How to set up Gmail contacts and calendar on iPhone

How to set up Gmail on iPhone: Gmail app

Let’s start this discussion by seeing how to configure Gmail on iPhone using the official Gmail app . In this case, the first thing you need to do is install the app and set it up as I’ll show you shortly.

Provide, therefore, to tap on the App Store icon attached to the home screen or to the App Library of your device, press the Search button (bottom right), search for “gmail” using the search field located at the top and select the correct result. If you are reading the article directly from the iPhone where you intend to install the Gmail app, you can speed up the procedure by pressing directly on this link .

Once the App Store screen for the Gmail app is displayed, tap the Get / Install button and confirm the operation via Face ID , Touch ID or Apple ID password . Then wait for the app download and installation procedure to start and complete. Then, tap the Open button that appeared in place of the “Get” one, to immediately access the new application that has been installed on your device.

Now stick to the simple wizard that is shown to you on the screen, by pressing the Login button and typing your Gmail e-mail address and the password associated with it in the appropriate fields, then enter the security code received via SMS or generated via app in active two-step verification case .

Keep in mind that if another Google app is in use on your iPhone with which you have already logged in to your Gmail account, you may not need to log in. In this case, you will only be asked to confirm that the one in use on the other app is actually your account and that you intend to use it with the official Gmail application as well.

After configuring Gmail on iPhone using the official app, you can access your Google e-mail inbox by simply pressing the Gmail icon now present on the home screen.

Once you open the app, the Gmail Inbox section will be shown by default . If you want to access other sections of your inbox, press the button (≡) at the top left. To read a new message you just need to press on it, while to write a new email, tap on the Write button located at the bottom right.

If your iPhone is updated to iOS 14 or later, you can also set the Gmail app as the default client. To do this, open the Settings app , pressing the gray icon with gears on the home screen, scroll the screen until you see the Gmail item and presses on it. Then tap on the wording App for the default email and select Gmail in the new screen that opened. By doing so, the Gmail app will be set as the default client on the iPhone.

How to set up Gmail on iPhone: Mail

Do you want to configure Gmail on iPhone to read and send emails using the client included “standard” in iOS, that is the Mail app ? You can do this too, but keep in mind one important fact: Mail doesn’t allow you to receive push notifications for Gmail accounts . This means that you will not receive real-time notifications when you receive new messages (you can only set a check based on regular time intervals).

That said, to configure a Gmail account in Mail, open the iPhone Settings , pressing the gray icon with the gears on the home screen. Subsequently, scroll down the screen that is shown to you, press the Mail item , tap on the wording Account (if you are asked to confirm your identity via Face ID , Touch ID or Apple ID password , you agree to do so) and select the Add account item .

Now, presses on the Google entry and then press the Continue button and type your e-mail address in the Enter email or phone number field ; then press the Next button , type the password referring to your Gmail account and tap the Next button once again . If the two-step verification is active on your Google account, fill in the field below the entry Enter code by typing the security code received via SMS or generated via the app and go on again .

Once this is done, the procedure will start on the iPhone to automatically find the necessary parameters for configuring the Gmail mailbox. If all goes well, after a few moments you should find yourself in front of a screen through which to indicate the data relating to your Gmail account that you want to synchronize with iPhone and that you want to manage from it.

Then, turn the lever located next to the wording Mail to ON or OFF (in theory it should already be selected by default) and tap on the Save item located at the top right.

At this point you can say you are satisfied: you have managed to complete and successfully the procedure by which to configure Gmail on iPhone. From now on, to be able to access your e-Gmail mailbox directly from the iPhone you have to do is press the icon for Mail on the home screen, tap the item to Gmail and press on Login , Drafts , Sent , and so followed according to the section relating to your e-mail box that you intend to consult.

Given the lack of push notifications above, I recommend that you set the automatic download of new emails. So at least you will receive notifications (unless you have turned them off) at regular intervals.

To proceed, go to the Mail> Account section of the Settings app , select the item Download new data , tap on the wording Gmail , scroll to the bottom of the displayed screen and choose whether to download the mail automatically (in this case iPhone will download the new data in the background when it is charging and connected to a Wi-Fi network), manually , every hour , every 30 minutes or every 15 minutes . Keep in mind that a higher frequency of the check will also lead to a higher energy consumption.

How to set up Gmail on iPhone: IMAP

Now let’s see how to configure Gmail on iPhone with IMAP parameters , a well-known more modern protocol than the POP3 protocol, designed to work on multiple devices at the same time (in fact, it synchronizes incoming and outgoing messages on all devices in use; the POP3 one, on the other hand, it is older and is designed to work on a single device, in fact it provides for the deletion of messages from Gmail servers once they are downloaded to the computer).

To use Gmail with the IMAP protocol in any email management app, you first need to make sure this is turned on in your Google mailbox settings. To do this, connected to your inbox on Gmail from the browser, press the button with the gear icon located at the top right and select the item View all settings from the menu that appears.

In the page that opens, select the Forwarding and POP / IMAP tab , put the check mark next to the item Activate IMAP to activate IMAP and click on the Save changes button located at the bottom of the screen to save the settings.

Once this is done, start the third-party app you have chosen for managing e-mail, by pressing on its icon attached to the home screen of your device, go to the Settings section of the same or to the one through which to manage the accounts , choose to add a new email account. Then fill in the fields that are shown on the screen by following the parameters you find below.

• Incoming mail server (IMAP): gmail.com, Port: 993, Requires SSL: yes.
• Outgoing mail server (SMTP): gmail.com, Port: 465 or 587, Requires SSL: yes, Requires authentication: yes.
• Full name or display name:[your name]
• Account Name or Username:your Gmail address (e.g. name @ com ).
• E-mailaddress : your Gmail address (e.g. name @ com ).
• Password:Gmail password.

In case of problems or if you need more details, take a look at the appropriate guides provided directly by the Gmail team for configuring the e-mail service using third-party clients.

How to set up Gmail contacts and calendar on iPhone

Want to know how to set up Gmail contacts and calendar on iPhone ? If you have followed the procedure that I indicated in the chapter on the Mail app , in reality you should have already succeeded, as long as you have not moved the levers located under the Contacts and Calendars items to OFF .

If you had to have them disabled, just go to the Settings> Mail> Accounts> Gmail menu and move the levers placed next to the Contacts and Calendars items to ON . For more information on how to synchronize Gmail contacts on iPhone and how to synchronize Gmail calendars on iPhone , read the guides I have dedicated to these topics.