Contacts and Calendar Synchronization

Do you have more than one email, calendar, or contacts provider and/or application you are using? Would it be really helpful if that iPhone calendar or contacts would automatically update with any changes made on your computer? This can be done relatively easily.

The first question you need to ask is do you really need more than one system? For example, if you like or prefer the layout and screens of the Google calendar on your Android cell phone but want to use Outlook on your computer and your email address is from Yahoo, that doesn’t mean you need to use more than one account. The Outlook computer application and Google calendar Android application can both access and use your Yahoo account. This means everything shows the same information and updates almost real time with changes.

If you really require more than one provider and want to synchronize, then you will need to use a 3rd party software to automatically update changes. I personally prefer SyncGene (Link: https://www.syncgene.com/). It is very good at bidirectional (doesn’t matter where you make the changes) updating and can handle more than 2 sources.

If you have a website, and it has a scheduling/appointment feature, you will need to check with your website administrator to see if it can sync with your personal calendar provider. For example, Calendly used to sync with Apple/iPhone calendar, but that feature has been removed. I highly recommend that you make that a requirement even if you don’t need it right now, anytime you have a scheduling feature added to your website. You can always choose not to use it but adding it later may require upgrading your website to a different widget.

Due to the various technical requirements of solving this question, this requires a “geek” to find the optimal solution for you.