How to Sync Mac Address Book With Google Contacts

How to Sync Mac Address Book With Google Contacts: Most professionals need to keep their contact lists up to date. Having the right phone number for a potential client, for example, can make the difference between closing a deal and wasting your time. But when a user works in two different tech ecosystems, it’s much harder to keep their contacts up to date. Each vendor has their own tools and ways to manage contacts, and it can be annoying to have to copy and paste information from one app to another.

Mac users who use Google services can sync their Google and Gmail contacts to the Mac address book to make sure all of their contacts have the same information. Once this is done, if a user makes a change to a contact in Gmail, for example, that change will also be made in their Mac contacts.

How to Sync Mac Address Book With Google Contacts

1. Open the Contacts app in OS X and go to the “File” menu followed by “Preferences”
2. Choose the ‘Accounts’ tab and click on the + plus button
3. Choose ‘Google’ and enter your Google account login information, complete the setup process and choose to sync the contact information with Google

Syncing Mac Address Book with Google Contacts in mac Snow Leopard

•  Launch Address Book
• Click on the “Address Book” menu and select “Preferences”
• Click on the “Accounts” tab
• Select the “On My Mac” under the left accounts
• Check the checkbox accompanying “Synchronize with Google”
• Click on “Configure…”
• Enter your Google Account login, click “OK”
• Then click “Sync Now” from the menu bar
• Now your Address Book is synchronized with your Google contacts!

How does Google Contacts work?

Google Contacts works mostly in the background to keep your Gmail contacts organized and up to date. But Google Contacts is more than just an address book. It has grown to include many information fields and grouping options to help you organize and manage your contact information, both in your email inbox and on your phone.

Contacts from your Gmail are automatically added to Google Contacts, but you can also edit, add to, or make new contacts by hand. Each contact record has basic information like the first name, last name, job title, email address, phone number, and company. You can also add notes to a contact and use labels to sort your contacts into different groups.

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