How To Synchronize Your Google Gmail Contacts and Calendars to Your iPad without using iTunes

Thank you so much this was really very helpful

Hi
It has been asked before and also answered before, just much further down. Answer is: click on Groups, the red tab at the top of the Contacts page, and click on Contacts under Exchange. The default setting is All contacts on my iPad, which doesn’t sync. It took me an hour to find out, and it is surprising this cannot be found easily, as it is quite essential.
Good luck.

I don’t know what you mean. In my case it just shows the whole contact list, as also visible on your computer when looking at contacts. And any addition or change via your iPad in this Group is almost immediately visible on your computer.
If you see a settings screen, i don’t know. Just aim for setting it to Exchange. I cannot help you any further I am afraid.
Good luck

This doesn’t work. At final step, it asks for exchange password, and it doesn’t accept the gmail account password

I just followed your instructions.  Worked perfectly, first time!!

Worked perfectly on IPad2 – even for a technical idiot like me.

Worked great. Thanks.

Your solution was perfect…..and I had been so irritated by Ipad 2′s failure to sync my contactsl Thank you very much? What else can we ask you?
Best wishes, Dvorah G.

AWESOME!! Thanks so much…soooo easy and I did right from my ipad2:)

Exactly the same problem here….

Thank you, thank you!  Getting these g-mail contacts into my ipad2 had been giving me a lot of grief.  Your tutorial made it very easy.

Finally found the reason. You have to make sure the Exchange calendar is selected when you add the event. 

You can make this the default calendar in the settings. 

Help! When i use the suggested method, i can get my gmail contacts to sync with ipad, but the street address is not brought over to the ipad. I only get city, state, zip. Anyone else having this problem or know how to fix it?

Thank you so much! Simple and clear assistance! Much appreciated!

That was The Missing Link.  Thank you very much.

Thanks so much buddy for this info!!!!! I have been going crazy on this contacts situation, for some word reason when I did the setup for the gmail, it asked me for everything else but my contacts so this solution was really helpful. Thanks again.

I tried this on my touch and it worked great.  I now am trying to figure out my ipad and had set up icloud.  This was supposed to do all the synching, but my contacts do not sync.  Should I delete the icloud account and use this method instead?

This worked like a charm, thank you! One point of interest, which may be obvious to some (but wasn’t to me): if you are a two-step verification password user on Google, you will need to generate a two-step password for the exchange account. Your regular google password will not work.

Thank you for solving such a critical issue!

Thank you!!!!!!

Thanks so much, now how do I go to my android phone and convert or link all contacts to google so that they can be synced?

Works great. Thank you for the server settings and easy to follow screenshots.

Many thanks, Thomas I’m setting up my Christmas iPad2 & while my google gmail & calendar did sync as anticipated from within iTunes, for no logical reasons my Google Contacs were totally left at the gate. I’m grateful to have this alternative to now try.

if you have 2 step verification, then after you create the account, you will be prompted for an exchange password. you will need to use the “application specific password” function to generate a password for this.

Lat step asks for Exchange password.  What am I supposed to enter?  The gmail account password doesn’t work.

thank you so much for your details instructions .. work like a charm.