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Just like to add a bit of my learning to the knowledge pool. Let us know in the comments if you have any questions or comments regarding syncing your contacts between Google and Mac OS X! If you do not manually hit sync, it will NOT DO ANYTHING, you merely just set it up. The menu bar icon is the SAME as the MobileMe sync icon (since that uses iSync as well). You need to manually hit sync from the menu bar OR use iSync. Update: If you’re having troubles with older versions of OS X, one of our helpful readers, Steve Guttbinder, suggests the following: Your Gmail contacts will now be the same as what is on your iPhone, Mail.app, and anything else that uses the Mac Address Book!

#Contact book google mac os x

This latter walkthrough is set within Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard but the ability to sync Google contacts with Address Book is within 10.5 as well (users have mixed results, I don’t have Leopard 10.5 so I am unable to help much). * Now your Address Book is synchronized with your Google contacts! * Enter your Google Account login, click “OK” * Check the checkbox accompanying “Synchronize with Google” * Select the “On My Mac” under the left accounts * Click on the “Address Book” menu and select “Preferences” Syncing Mac Address Book with Google Contacts in OS X Snow Leopard The Google-to-Mac sync ability is available in earlier versions of OS X however too, it’s just slightly different to setup and a bit less automated. This is the same for all modern versions of OS X, including Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, anything where the contacts app is labeled as “Contacts”. Choose ‘Google’ and enter your Google account login information, complete the setup process and choose to sync the contact information with Google.

Choose the ‘Accounts’ tab and click on the + plus button.Open the Contacts app in OS X and go to the “File” menu followed by “Preferences”.

#Contact book google how to

How to Sync Mac Contacts App with Google Contacts in OS X First we’ll cover new versions of OS X with the Contacts app, new versions of OS X automate this process quite well making it remarkably simple.