on an iMac, open iCal, Preferences, Accounts and click the + to add an account.To connect iCal to Google Calendar on your iMac, iPad or iPhone: I use Google Calendar, and can access it via the web interface (), or from Apple’s (now useful) iCal. (I’ve sorted out the IMAP issue these days with Postbox – see the link above). IMHO, stay well away from POP/IMAP access to email. and on my iPhone I use the Mailbox app, which is pretty handy. If you are fine with webmail, simply use Safari, Firefox or Chrome – I’ve used the Google G Suite control panel to configure my webmail link using the URL. Read this detailed walk through if you are have a large Gmail mailbox (as I did – once) and it has stopped you using IMAP in the past – IMAP, Postbox and Large Gmail Accounts.

While I used to use webmail, I now use Postbox via IMAP. Here is what I do so that everything is up to date. If you aren’t a Google G Suite user, this will also work for a Gmail account (see below). For reasons explained below, I use Address Book for my contacts, but not Google Contacts. We use Google G Suite ourselves, but also set it up for a lot of clients along with their business websites, so I get to see quite a bit of it in action. If you haven’t come across it before, Google G Suite lets you use a Gmail account with your own domain – plus a whole bunch of other resources as part of a single account (Google Calendar and Google Docs being the main ones of interest). I use Google G Suite (formerly Google Apps) for my mail and calendar. Here is my current way of managing information across iMac, Macbook Pro, iPad and iPhone. I’m a long time Mac user, have paid my MobileMe dues and tried all sorts of other tricks over time.

Once you have a desktop at work, a laptop for out and about as well as a tablet and phone, well, it just gets complicated. Keeping mail, address book and calendar up to date across different computers can be surprisingly difficult.

Calendar for imac desktop