I still use a 4th generation iPod Touch. Although I’m stuck with iOS 6, it still works fine for doing the things I use it for: e-mail, contacts, calendar, alarm clock, reading RSS-feeds (Reeder, reading from Feedly), Twitter (using Tweetbot), and Pocket.
For e-mail, I use the GMail application. For contacts and calendar, I use Apple’s native Contacts and Calendars apps, synchronized with my Google account via the Exchange protocol. Until recently, this worked fine. I had offline access to my contacts and calendar events, and it synchronized when I was online.
About a month ago, synchronization stopped working. I don’t get any error message, it just doesn’t synchronize anymore. Today, I solved the problem by removing the Exchange account, and performing the following steps.
Synchronized calendars: add a Google account
- Go to “Settings › Mail, Contacts, Calendar › Add Account › GMail”
- Enter the following information:
Name | your full name |
Email | your e-mail address |
Password | your Google account password |
Description | a description of the account |
- Select which services you want to synchronize: E-mail, Calendars, Notes (I only synchronize calendars)
Synchronized contacts: add a CardDAV account
- Go to “Settings › Mail, Contacts, Calendar › Add Account › Other › Add CardDAV Account”
- Enter the following information:
Server | google.com |
User Name | your e-mail address |
Password | your Google account password |
Description | a description of the account |