Using GMail to Manage Your iPhone Contacts (and vice versa)

[jsmcallister]

http://jsmcallister.blogspot.com/2012/08/syncing-your-gmail-contacts-with-your.html

[eumenides1]

Hmmm it never occurred to me to do a write up of this process. And it's funny, because I did exactly the same thing in the same order.

Yes, this process works quite well and cleaning up your gmail contacts is a pain, but most important step.

[modeless]

One more tip: Gmail has a "merge duplicate contacts" feature that's a huge time saver during the cleanup step.

[jsmcallister → modeless]

Great tip. I added it to the original post.

[andymoe]

I've used this approach since gmail added supported the active sync protocol. It's work out quite well.

[erangalp]

The funny thing is that you can do that on Android by default.