Syncing iPhone and Google Calendar with Spanning Sync

iPhone has finally arrived and as promised Spanning Sync allows you to sync Google Calendar with your iPhone. Here's how.

First, set up Spanning Sync
If you haven't already, download and install Spanning Sync from spanningsync.com/download. Login using your Google (Gmail or Google Apps) account and choose which iCal calendars to sync with your Google calendars. If you're not already a Spanning Sunc customer, this will start your free 15-day trial.

Next, set up iTunes
Open iTunes and configure calendar syncing by selecting your iPhone in the iTunes device list, then clicking the "Info" tab. Check the "Sync iCal calendars" checkbox and choose which calendars you want to sync.

Note that you'll also need to choose which iCal calendar will receive new events created on your iPhone.

Finally, sync!
By default, your iPhone will sync with your Mac every time you connect it. Spanning Sync will sync at the interval you specified in the preference pane.

Events created in Google Calendar will sync to your Mac via Spanning Sync and then to your iPhone via iTunes. Similarly, events created on your iPhone will sync to your Mac via iTunes and then to Google Calendar via Spanning Sync.

Comments

[Jeff]

Here's my situation: I want to synch my work Entourage/Outlook calendar to my iPhone. But I use my home G4 as my iPhone syncing computer.

I've been able to get my work calendar imported to gCal (I tried going Entourage-->iCal-->gCal but everytime I tried to import into gCal I got an error so I used my work PC to import from Outlook to gCal with success).

From what I understand here, I can sync my iPhone with my iCal on my home computer (after I've synced gCal with my home iCal) with Spanning Sync. But am I going to have to export new calendars from work to gCal every day and then use Spanning Sych? Seems like a lot of steps.

It's like I'm going from work to gCal to home iCal to iPhone.