Wednesday, October 17, 2012

How to sync iPhone Calendar with Google Calendar

It is a common issue with iOS device (iPhone/iPad/iPod) users, that your iPhone calender doesn't get synced with your Google Calendar. All your entries in the google calendar would be reflected on your iPhone but the vice versa doesn't work.
You can follow the below mentioned steps to resolve this issue. Its all about a little configurations on your iPhone.

1.  On iPhone go to :  Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars->(scroll down to calendars)->Default Calendar->select Gmail calendar.

2.  Now go back to your main page on iPhone and select Calendar.

3.  Select "LIST" view of your events/dates/appointments.

4.  Notice that each event has a colored bullet to the left.  This indicates which calendar it belongs to (in my case orange bullets were for Outlook and Green for Google). 

5.  What I found was that the events NOT showing up on my google calendar were actually somehow default created in Outlook.  So to quickly change them over (and get them to show up on your Google Cal in both your laptop and iPhone)---do the following:

a.  Select an item from the list that you want to show up on your Google Calendar.  Open that item.
b. Edit the item.
c.  Scroll down to where you see "CALENDAR"
d.  Select CALENDAR and then place a check next to your google calendar.

You have just moved this item back to google.  Since google is now your 'default calendar (see step 1 up above), it should from here on out make all your apptmts in Google Calendar. 

Now it works....

Next step to manually sync you can follow the below steps:

to manually sync things up and check to make sure this worked you need to do two things:

1.  On iPhone:  Open Calendar and then hit "CALENDAR" on upper left.  In bottom left hand side of screen is a circle with an arrow...hit that.  It seems to send whatever you just did...out to Google Calendars.

2.  On laptop...open your Google Calendar---on top right there is a button that says "MORE"---hit that and scroll down to "REFRESH"...that will sync the calendar w/ your iPhone. 

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

How to Delete a calendar on iPhone?

Follow the below steps to  remove calanders on your iPhone / iPad / iPod devices.

Goto Settings -> Mail -> Contacts and Calendars.
Select the account you want to delete and then touch the "Delete" button.
The same steps can be repeated for each of the calendars you want to remove.

How to delete search history on an iPhone or iPad?

Follow the below steps to clear the sear history on your iPhone or iPad or iPod devices.

Open up Safari Web Browser by touching the Safari icon on your iPhone, iPad or iPod.
Tap the book icon at the bottom of the screen to open Safari's bookmark links.
Tap the "History" link that appears at the top of the screen, and then touch the "Clear" button to erase your phone's history.
Press the home button to return to the home screen.
Touch the Settings icon and then tap Safari.
Scroll down and touch "Clear Cache."

Now all your history are cleared from your iOS Device.

Does iphone internet have parental controls?

The first version of iphone running iOS did not have an Internet parental control feature.
Beginning with iOS 3.0 of the iPhone, however, you can access Internet parental controls by selecting "Settings" -> "General" -> "Restrictions."
Enter a four digit passcode.
On the next screen, select the items you wish to disable on the device.

How to close a Web page in iPhone Safari?

Open the iPhone's Safari browser. Press the "Pages" button in the bottom-left corner of the screen. This brings up a screen with each of your open web pages.

Close the Page
Tap the "x" in the upper-left corner of the Web page. This closes the Web page. Repeat the process if you have more than one Web page you want to close.

The same steps work on iPhone, iPad as well as iPods.