Gmail on iPhone
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Yes.
How I have this set up is to add my Google account to the phone as usual and set it to sync mail, contacts, calendars and notes. Then I've turned off notifications for that account in mail and installed the Gmail app. This gives you all the features of your Gmail inbox but also means you can still use it to send photos, share links etc.
How I have this set up is to add my Google account to the phone as usual and set it to sync mail, contacts, calendars and notes. Then I've turned off notifications for that account in mail and installed the Gmail app. This gives you all the features of your Gmail inbox but also means you can still use it to send photos, share links etc.
I want to use the built in mail client. I guess I'll continue with Outlook.
I tried the old m.google.com settings but this didn't work.
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For this reason alone I am leaving GMail after being with them since the very beginning. Everything that Google does these days just annoys me. They have flipped 180 degrees and become mega-evil.
It works for me, I have mine setup like this.
Should be in the software forum 
Google have stopped allowing new registrations for Exchange. You cannot use Exchange for Gmail anymore (unless you have a business account I think).
Your only choices are to use IMAP and a fast fetch rate (15 mins), or the Gmail app. Frankly I think Mail is more than sufficient now.
Google have stopped allowing new registrations for Exchange. You cannot use Exchange for Gmail anymore (unless you have a business account I think).
Your only choices are to use IMAP and a fast fetch rate (15 mins), or the Gmail app. Frankly I think Mail is more than sufficient now.
Yep, I think I'll be flipping over to iCloud myself.
Going to dump the contents of GMail into an archive and start again with a new mail account.
I'll miss GChat integration into GMail, but that's about it. Google's recent G+ nonsense pushed me over the edge, Youtube and this just compound matters.
So long Google, nice while it lasted.
Going to dump the contents of GMail into an archive and start again with a new mail account.
I'll miss GChat integration into GMail, but that's about it. Google's recent G+ nonsense pushed me over the edge, Youtube and this just compound matters.
So long Google, nice while it lasted.
Why not just use Fetch every 15 minutes? Not quite the same but not far off.
But yes, I agree with your point. For example, having to enable Web History in order to access your Google Contacts in Google Maps. No thanks.
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Truth be told I manually check for mail anyway, saves battery. I don't get a tremendous amount of the stuff, so not worth hammering battery to check for something I probably don't have.
I'm more annoyed at the constant changes that Google seem to implement at will across their estate without so much as a rollback option, or opt out.
Seems "like it or lump it" is their order of business, so I'm lumping it.
I'm more annoyed at the constant changes that Google seem to implement at will across their estate without so much as a rollback option, or opt out.
Seems "like it or lump it" is their order of business, so I'm lumping it.
it definitely pushes, sent myself an email on my phone, it arrives straight away
Do you have the Mail app open or are manually refreshing it? If not it only checks for mail every 15mins
Truth be told I manually check for mail anyway, saves battery. I don't get a tremendous amount of the stuff, so not worth hammering battery to check for something I probably don't have.
I'm more annoyed at the constant changes that Google seem to implement at will across their estate without so much as a rollback option, or opt out.
Seems "like it or lump it" is their order of business, so I'm lumping it.
You're never going to have control over a third-party service though. Even the paid up version of Google Apps deprecates old features, granted there's a transition period and your admin can decide if you're keeping the old version around for a bit, but there will be a day you log in and it's pushed the change through.
no the mail app is not open, i just tried sending a photo to my own email from the photos folder. like 15 seconds after i hit send i got a banner at the top of my screen saying new email (im guessing thats the upload time)
It sound like you'll have set up EAS before Google shut down the service. Existing devices keep EAS, new devices can't get it. Just don't ever wipe your phone or get a new one as you'll lose EAS at that point!