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Want to see Gmail changes you make on your iPhone instantly reflected in Gmail? Now you can with IMAP for Gmail support rolling out over the next few days. You can sync your inbox across devices instantly and automatically. Whether you read or write your email on your phone or on your desktop, changes you make to Gmail will be seen from anywhere you access your inbox. Delete an email from your iPhone and it will be deleted from your Gmail. Gmail will also show what you’ve read on the iPhone, so no more “Mark as read” and reading the same email twice nonsense.

To see if your Gmail account has IMAP turned on yet login to your Gmail account and goto Settings. If you see a tab called “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” you have it. If your tab says “Forwarding and POP” it means your account has not been IMAP enabled by Google yet. But not to worry, Google is rolling it out to everyone over the next few days. Here is what the Settings page looks like with IMAP support.

To configure your iPhone to use Gmail with IMAP support follow these 7 steps. A video demonstration is also provided below.

1. Enable IMAP in your Gmail account settings.
2. Tap Settings.
3. Tap Mail.
4. Tap Add Account.
5. Tap Other. (Note: don’t tap Gmail; if you do, you’ll set up POP rather than IMAP. We are aware of this issue and are currently working to make setting up Gmail more intuitive for the iPhone.)
6. Make sure that:
   • The IMAP tab is highlighted
   • Host Name is imap.gmail.com
   • User Name is your full Gmail address, including ‘@gmail.com’
   • For Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP), Host Name is smtp.gmail.com
   • For Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP), Host Name is smtp.gmail.com
7. Tap Save, and you’re done.

You can also verify your Advanced settings by tapping Settings > [your Gmail IMAP Account] > Advanced.
Incoming Settings

• Use SSL: ON
• Authentication: password
• Server Port: 993

Outgoing Settings

• Use SSL: ON
• Authentication: Password
• Server Port: 587

If you rather watch the steps here is a nice little video tutorial:

Read the details here. More info on the official Google and Gmail blogs.

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App reviewed by Joe Seifi on October 24th, 2007 and filed under Cydia Apps, Email, Phone (Viewed 6659 times, 10 so far today). Need help on using these apps? Please read the Help Page.

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47 Reviews on “IMAP for Gmail”

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1. 40
   October 12th, 2010 at 1:34 am Srikant says:

   Thanks Scott !! The Captcha thing worked for me !

2. 39
   July 1st, 2010 at 7:19 pm iphone_addict says:

   Finally, I’ve been having problems with SMTP with some email clients on PC. I hope IMAP will solve the problems I had.

3. 38
   June 10th, 2010 at 6:16 pm Thishasbeenpissingmeoff says:

   This problem has been bugging me for ages.

   Thanks for your help!!!!!
   Now my mail will actually receive, instead of making me think its a connection issue.

4. 37
   April 17th, 2010 at 12:58 pm Morris says:

   nice site I like and I sure to visit, well done

5. 36
   April 16th, 2010 at 7:59 am Season says:

   Thank you!

6. 35
   February 24th, 2010 at 7:05 pm Crazy Mom says:

   Your advice worked wonderfully! I spent hours trying to get my son’s gmail to work on his new itouch. Your advice was by far the best! Thank you for keeping my sanity!

7. 34
   October 16th, 2009 at 2:16 am Oguzhan Yesilay says:

   Hi ,Unlock thing Worked really fine.There is a link just click and unlock.My mail works fine right now.Thnx for help

8. 33
   October 9th, 2009 at 10:59 am Worst Nightmare says:

   This was by far the word advice i’ve ever read. A chimpanzee, blind, with poop soiling in his hand could give better advice than the chicken scratch I have just wasted my time bothering to read in hopes of solving an issue.

9. 32
   September 19th, 2009 at 3:13 pm Ines Fleurant says:

   Wow! Was f?r eine Idee! Was f?r ein Konzept! Beautiful .. Erstaunlich

10. 31
    August 30th, 2009 at 12:19 pm Edouard says:

    I loved reading this and I dont really like to read

11. 30
    August 17th, 2009 at 11:46 am Cheryl Wilson says:

    Yeah this cool I like this post are you going to do a follow up? I just won a Mac Book Air today I am so happy about that found a freebee site http://budurl.com/MacBookAir

12. 29
    July 7th, 2009 at 8:20 am Nicholas says:

    More post please! you are leaving a poor old man hungry for more :[

13. 28
    June 15th, 2009 at 2:11 pm monster says:

    i unlocked captcha but now when i try to send an email its saying that my sender (outgoing) address is invalid. my sender addres is “smtp.gmail.com” just like it says it should be. does anyone know what im doing wrong please help.

14. 27
    June 14th, 2009 at 9:44 pm nadia says:

    Thank you!!! I clean the captcha as Mike suggested here. And it works!

15. 26
    June 10th, 2009 at 8:28 pm JinTN says:

    so, my imap/gmail works fine from day one. however, is there a way to have the gmail application running instead of the default email client. i can’t seem to get to do that. I was able on a blackberry storm.

16. 25
    June 9th, 2009 at 1:14 pm monster says:

    i got a question i followed all those instructions i got it all set up but when i go to check my mail it “says the connection to the server imap.gmail.com failed” but iv checked everything about 50 times and i followed the instructions and it just doesnt seem to work would you know why?

17. 24
    May 27th, 2009 at 5:14 am steve says:

    I am having same problem, out of the blue, on my Iphone.
    Did not improve with “unlock captcha”
    any other thoughts?

18. 23
    May 12th, 2009 at 9:53 pm jim says:

    thanks mike!
    the unlock captcha solved it!

19. 22
    May 12th, 2009 at 12:33 pm Scott says:

    I had the same exact problem. On my iPhone, the imap.gmail.com failure would pop up, I don’t know how this happened because it was working fine. The problem has been solved though by doing this…

    Specifically, you have to go to a page on google and type in your username, password, and a captcha phrase and then it suddenly starts allowing IMAP again.
    **** You MUST visit this from the same computer/iPhone/iPod touch/whatever that is having the problems. ****

    Visit: https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha

20. 21
    May 11th, 2009 at 3:58 pm Larry says:

    As a someone new to the internet I am always searching online for for psots like this that can help me. Thanks.

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